Thread by @tenprotocol

welcome back to the TEE Party 🍵
today: let’s talk future

TEEs already power billions of devices - but what’s next?

we’re heading into a world of encrypted compute, sovereign AI, and programmable trust 👇

confidential computing goes mainstream

more clouds are adding native TEE support (Azure, GCP, AWS)
soon, deploying privacy-preserving apps will be as easy as spinning up a VM

what TLS did for transport, TEEs will do for compute

AI + TEEs = match made in heaven

training and inference on sensitive data - without the data ever leaving a secure enclave
think:

healthcare models on patient data

personalized AI agents that don’t leak your info

federated learning with real privacy guarantees

cross-domain composability

TEEs let you bridge trust between:

- blockchains
- cloud services
- edge devices
- oracles
- APIs

the result?
programmable privacy and integrity across entire data flows - not just inside your app

TEE modular stacks are maturing

devs used to have to mess with vendor-specific SDKs and clunky tools

but frameworks like Gramine, Enarx, SCONE, and Veracruz are making it easier to write, deploy, and verify TEE-powered code

in other words: TEEs are becoming dev-friendly

regulatory pressure = tailwind

GDPR, HIPAA, enterprise compliance - all pushing for better guarantees around data access, usage, and deletion

TEEs offer provable privacy that plays well with legal requirements
expect adoption to grow fast in regulated industries

TEEs aren’t just “security features” anymore

they’re becoming a foundation for how we compute, collaborate, and trust in a global, adversarial environment

next up: how TEE-powered apps could reshape web3 UX

what more would you like to learn about TEEs?