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Incognitee: Productive Privacy Sidechains for DOT, KSM and all Substrate- Based Chains
Integritee has demonstrated a working live deployment of its privacy sidechain technology on Paseo.
Try it now at: https://try.incognitee.io
After years of development, our sidechain prototype has been field tested in May 2024 with a public user testing campaign where a total of 200k PAS have been moved by 95 accounts performing 969 shielding and 3291 unshielding actions during two weeks.
With this, Integritee has shown that its prototype delivers on its goal to enable privacy-enhanced transfers of any fungible token in the Polkadot ecosystem. Deploying this in production is the next step and we need support to make this our focus.
We ask the Polkadot treasury for
803’680 CHF ≃ 897’463 USD ≃ 135’527 DOT
to fund remaining activities until launch on Kusama and Polkadot
Resources:
- full proposal document
- initial discussion post
- approved previous DOT Treasury retroactive funding (ref 617)
Main Deliverables
- Productive Incognitee deployments on Kusama and then Polkadot
- Private transfers of limited amounts of DOT, KSM and USDC/USDT
- At least one wallet UI implementation (functional preview)
Budget
Internal Costs
| Area | FTE | Costs |
|---|---|---|
| Core development | 2 | 307’200 CHF |
| Frontend development | 1 | 64’000 CHF |
| Devops | 1 | 96’800 CHF |
| Marketing & Community | 2 | 36’000 CHF |
| Product & Project Management | 1 | 96’000 CHF |
| Subtotal Internal Costs | 600’000 CHF |
External Costs
| Area | Costs |
|---|---|
| Security audit | 100’000 CHF |
| Infrastructure | 24’000 CHF |
| Marketing | 20’000 CHF |
| Legal research | 20’000 CHF |
| Subtotal External Costs | 164’000 CHF |
Retroactive coverage for work completed
since last approved proposal
| Area | Costs |
|---|---|
| Work done Febr-June 2024 | 39’680 CHF |
| Subtotal Retroactive | 39’680 CHF |
Summary
| Area | Total |
|---|---|
| Subtotal Internal Costs | 600’000 CHF |
| Subtotal External Costs | 164’000 CHF |
| Subtotal Retroactive | 39’680 CHF |
| Total | 803’680 CHF |
Context
- Private Transactions on L2 for all Polkadot Chains | Polkadot Decoded 2023 talk by our CTO brenzi: video recording
- Why Privacy Matters And What Integritee Can Do About it | Polkadot Now India talk by our CTO brenzi: video recording
brenzi appeared on AAG to explain this proposal
Comments (13)
Requested
Proposal Failed
Quite interesting having a TEE coin mixer in the Polkadot ecosystem. This might also trigger a lot of discussion about how much privacy is good and if it is wrong if it can be abused. You address this point in Pilot 4, which will allow Law Enforcement Access to a certain extent, an interesting approach. From a technical side, we support this use case for TEEs.
We have prepared a treasury proposal to cover for the development of Pilot 1 and Pilot 2 and their deployment on Statemine and Statemint:
Treasury Proposal Detailes
We are asking the Polkadot treasury for 160'300 USD (exchange rate from CHF to DOT to be adjusted upon submission)