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Solana Foundation Launches Confidential Compute Toolkit on Devnet

The open-source beta records hardware attestations on Solana to let developers validate outputs from off-chain AI running inside Trusted Execution Environments before accepting them.

Overview

  • The Solana Foundation and TryNitoAI released the toolkit as an unaudited open-source beta that went live on Friday, November 13, 2026, and it is currently available only on Solana’s devnet.
  • The package includes an SDK and an on-chain verification program that stores signing keys, hardware type, and expiration so apps can check a hardware-signed attestation before trusting a model’s output.
  • The beta supports Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP attestations today and leaves NVIDIA GPU attestation under development, so not all processor types can yet be independently verified on-chain.
  • Nito is the first adopter and runs open-weight models inside attested hardware with a live private chat demo at trynito.ai, but servers and operators can still see metadata such as IPs, account IDs, timing, and encrypted message size.
  • A mainnet rollout is planned but blocked by a pending security audit and no date has been given, and developers must still implement authentication, rate limits, and bot protection while trusting chipmakers and published software for security.