Hassan Maishera
On Tuesday, the Secret Network announced via X that Cryptic and the Secret Network Foundation are partnering to accelerate post-quantum security for enterprises and AI. Under the partnership, Cryptic is deploying key operations on the Secret Network VM, using attestation to support a verifiable chain of trust. The parties will also explore adding post-quantum signature options to verifiable message signing as part of Secret’s confidential AI roadmap.
Cryptic selected Secret’s VM technology as the foundation for this work because it offers verifiable confidentiality alongside the reliability and developer experience required for production systems.
Conner Holloway, Founder of Cryptic, said, “Post quantum is a timing issue. Enterprises cannot change cryptography overnight, and data that needs to remain secure for years is already at risk from ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threats. We chose to build on Secret’s VM technology because it is a practical, production-grade environment for verifiable confidentiality, and it lets us move now rather than later.”
Luke Bowman, COO of the Secret Network Foundation, said, “Organisations want security they can verify, not security they are asked to trust. Cryptic is bringing a clear post-quantum focus to a problem that is arriving faster than most roadmaps allow, and we are pleased they are deploying on Secret’s confidential compute VMs to deliver those guarantees in real systems.”
Initial work includes deploying Cryptic functionality on Secret’s VMs for server-side encryption of public chats, alongside joint exploration of post-quantum signatures for attestable AI outputs.
Secret Network is an interoperable blockchain infrastructure that aims to enable computational privacy for general-purpose smart contracts. SCRT is trading at $0.09134, up 4.5% in the last 24 hours.
