Secret Network is a unique blockchain that focuses on privacy. Unlike most blockchains where all data is public and anyone can see what’s happening, Secret Network lets people and developers keep information private — just like how our personal messages or financial details should stay confidential.

It was launched in 2020 as the first blockchain to support privacy-preserving smart contracts. These are like regular smart contracts but with a special feature — they can hide sensitive data using encryption. This means apps built on Secret Network can be decentralized and open, but still protect users’ privacy at every step.

Now, Secret Network is going even further with Secret AI — a new infrastructure layer that allows AI models to run securely inside a protected environment. This lets developers use the power of artificial intelligence while still keeping data private and safe.

Private and secure voting with Secret Network

One of the most exciting things you can do with Secret Network is confidential voting. In many traditional or blockchain-based voting systems, votes can often be traced back to the voter — which means they aren’t truly private. Secret Network changes that by allowing people to vote privately and securely, without revealing who voted for what. When someone casts a vote, their choice is encrypted (locked up so no one else can read it) and sent to a Secret smart contract. This smart contract then counts all the votes secretly, without exposing individual choices and only reveals the final results once voting is over. This approach makes it perfect for DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), where community members often need to make decisions together — but don’t always want their personal votes to be public. With Secret Network, every participant can vote freely, knowing their privacy is protected while the process remains transparent, fair and tamper-proof.

Also, Secret Network makes it possible to run sealed-bid or blind auctions directly on the blockchain while keeping all bids completely private. With Secret smart contracts, each participant’s bid is encrypted so no one can see what others have offered until the auction ends. Once all bids are submitted, the contract securely reveals only the winning bid and bidder, ensuring a fair and transparent process. This setup encourages honest competition and often leads to better outcomes for sellers, since bidders can confidently submit their best offers without worrying about others seeing their bids.

Secure randomness for games and apps

Another powerful feature of Secret Network is Secret VRF (Verifiable Random Function) — a secure and decentralized way to generate random numbers. Random numbers are important for many things like games, lotteries, NFT minting or lucky draws, but on most blockchains, they can be predicted or manipulated. With Secret VRF, randomness is created privately and verifiably, meaning it can’t be tampered with or guessed. This makes it perfect for building fair games, unbiased raffles and trustworthy on-chain applications.

Encrypted NFTs, storage and confidential documents

With Encrypted NFTs, Secret Network allows creators and developers to attach private data to an NFT — data that only the NFT’s owner can unlock and view. This means an NFT can hold exclusive content, like hidden artwork, private documents or access keys, all kept safe through encryption. It’s especially useful for tokenizing real-world assets, verifying ownership or sharing confidential information securely, while still keeping the NFT itself public and tradable on the blockchain.

Secret Network also makes it possible to store and share confidential documents securely on the blockchain. Using its encryption tools and SDK (set of tools, libraries and instructions that help developers easily build applications that interact with a specific system or platform), users can upload documents in a decentralized way and control exactly who can access them. You can store new documents, view their contents, and even grant or revoke access for specific wallet addresses whenever you choose. This gives individuals and businesses a safe way to handle sensitive information — such as contracts, legal papers or personal data — without relying on centralized storage providers. Your documents stay private and accessible only to those you trust.

Secret Network can also act as an encrypted database for your applications, allowing you to store and manage sensitive information privately. With tools like SecretPath, developers can send encrypted data (called payloads) directly to Secret smart contracts. The network’s gateway contract automatically decrypts the information inside a secure environment and passes it safely to the target contract — without ever exposing the data publicly. This makes Secret Network ideal for apps that need to handle private user data, business records or any confidential information, all while staying decentralized and secure.

Advancing privacy-preserving AI

With growing concerns over data privacy, security and ethical AI deployment, SecretAI — DeepSeek R1 offers a powerful solution. Built on SecretVM technology, this large language model ensures that all user interactions remain fully encrypted, so prompts, queries and data cannot be accessed by anyone — not even the platform or model host. Unlike traditional AI models, SecretAI combines the capabilities of advanced LLMs with confidential computing, allowing developers and users to run AI applications with high performance while maintaining complete data confidentiality.

Building on the promise of confidential AI in healthcare, the collaboration between Fetch.AI and Secret Network extends these privacy-preserving capabilities to a broader range of AI applications. By combining Fetch.ai’s agent-based ecosystem Agentverse with Secret Network’s confidential computing infrastructure SecretVM, the project enables mammography scans and other sensitive medical data to be processed entirely within trusted execution environments (TEEs). AI models such as Mirai, AsymMirai, and Llama3-Med42–70B run securely inside these TEEs, producing structured diagnostic reports while ensuring that patient data remains fully encrypted and inaccessible to infrastructure providers. Fetch.ai’s autonomous agents handle secure communication with authorized recipients, allowing interoperability between hospitals, telemedicine platforms and insurance services without leaking private data.

The system also integrates cryptographic attestation, providing verifiable proof that computations were executed correctly and securely. This architecture addresses real-world challenges that often prevent AI adoption in clinical environments, such as regulatory compliance, cross-institutional data variability and privacy concerns, while ensuring clinicians remain at the center of decision-making. By offering end-to-end privacy, verifiability and scalable AI deployment, this collaboration creates a practical model for responsible, high-stakes AI, showing that decentralized and confidential technologies can protect both patient data and clinical trust while advancing medical diagnostics.

Using Secret Network and SCRT for private portfolio and transactions

The Secret Network not only enables privacy-preserving applications but also allows users to manage their assets with full confidentiality using SCRT, the network’s native token. Users can bridge tokens from other blockchains like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Cosmos-based chains through tools such as Secret Tunnel, Squid Router and IBC transfers, ensuring that assets can enter the Secret Network ecosystem securely and privately.

SilentSwap, the official privacy-focused cross-chain aggregator, enables fast, trustless and noncustodial transfers, obfuscating transaction details between sender and receiver while remaining fully compliant.

• SilentSwap never holds users’ funds. All interactions happen in the user’s browser or wallet session and users must authorize each step.

• Multi‑chain support: it supports swaps across a variety of blockchains (Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Base, etc.).

• The system hides the trace between sender and receiver, ensuring there is no visible on‑chain link between input and output wallets.

• SilentSwap combines confidentiality with optional transparency: while the transaction details remain hidden, users can opt to reveal or audit certain aspects when needed.

SCRT can be obtained by swapping tokens on a DEX or CEX, or purchased directly with fiat via platforms like Kado and Transak. To interact with the network, users can choose from a variety of compatible wallets, including hardware devices, browser extensions, and mobile apps, giving them full control over their assets while preserving privacy and security.

SCRT is the native token of the Secret Network blockchain, and it plays a central role in making the network function. SCRT is primarily used to pay transaction (gas) fees, stake and participate in governance.

By staking your tokens right now, you help secure the network while earning a competitive 21.05% APR on your holdings. Plan your SCRT staking returns using our easy-to-use calculator. Staking SCRT not only generates passive rewards but also gives you a voice in the network’s governance, allowing you to vote on proposals that shape the future of Secret Network.

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Secret Network is redefining blockchain by combining decentralization with privacy. Through confidential applications and advanced solutions like SecretAI, the network allows users and developers to protect their data while harnessing the power of blockchain and artificial intelligence. From finance and healthcare to other sensitive industries, Secret Network lays the foundation for a safer, privacy-focused and transparent Web3.