Future Plans

Future Plans

Road to Decentralization

Integrating FHE into a blockchain-runtime is a hard and complex task. Our engineering philosophy is Ship Fast, and we believe that to build the best possible product we need to meet real users early. Similar to the approach described in Vitalik’s “training wheels” post (in the context of rollups), we too are relying on “training wheels” releasing CoFHE to achieve this goal. Outlined here is a non-exhaustive list of trust-points, centralized components and compromises made to ship CoFHE to users as fast as possible, along with how we plan to address them in the future. This list will be updated as things progress.

Component	Compromise	Plan to solve	Timeline	Status
Threshold Network (TN)	All parties are run by Fhenix	N/A	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	Use of a Trusted Dealer for keys and random data generation	N/A	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	Parties trust the Coordinator	N/A	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	TN trusts CoFHE (tx-flow decryptions)	N/A	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	Parties trust a Trusted Dealer	1. Run TD in a TEE 2. Public ceremony for share creation 3. Eliminate TD	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	Parties are not using unique random data within the protocol	Pull random data from the TD	N/A	❌
Threshold Network (TN)	SealOutput reencryption performed in a centralized manner	N/A	N/A	❌
ZK-Verifier (ZKV)	CoFHE trusts ZK-Verifier	Run ZKV in a TEE	N/A	❌
CoFHE	Trust in CoFHE to perform correct FHE computations	External verification using AVS	N/A	❌
CoFHE	User inputs stored in a centralized manner	Use a decentralized DA	N/A	❌
All	Codebase is unaudited	Perform a security audit	N/A	❌
All	Codebase is not fully open-source	Open-source codebase	N/A	❌

Upcoming Features

In the spirit of transparency, here we describe the general feature-roadmap planned for CoFHE. This list will be updated as things progress.

Feature	Type	Description	Timeline	Status
Integration SDK	DevX	SDK to easily integrate CoFHE-specific components into dApps	N/A	❌
Additional external devtools	DevX	Remix, Alchemy SDK and more	N/A	❌
RNG	DevX	Ability to generate secure randomness in contracts	N/A	❌
Alternative runtimes	DevX	Support for additional runtimes other than EVM	N/A	❌
FHE ops in view functions	DevX	Ability to execute FHE operations in view functions in contracts	N/A	❌
GPU support	UX	Run FHE operations on a GPU backend, improving performance and overall latency	N/A	❌
FPGA support	UX	Run FHE operations on an FPGA backend, improving performance and overall latency	N/A	❌
T-out-of-N MPC protocol	Robustness	Improve robustness of the TN by not requiring all parties to be online	N/A	❌
Support additional host-chains	DevX/UX	N/A	N/A	❌
Key shares rotation	Robustness/Security	Ability to rotate the party shares in the TN	N/A	❌
Key Rotation	Robustness/Security	Ability to rotate the key for the entire protocol	N/A	❌

CoFHE Components

Data Flows

Research

Road to Decentralization

Upcoming Features

​Road to Decentralization

​Upcoming Features

Road to Decentralization

Upcoming Features