Hardening Smart Contracts with Hardware Security
Duration: 00:22:32
Speaker: Nicolas Bacca
Type: Talk
Expertise: Advanced
Event: Devcon
Date: Jul 2026
Trusted hardware is not your enemy – as threats against cryptocurrencies are evolving (from dumb malware sweeping private keys to smart attackers attacking the presentation layers of smart contracts), we’ll review during this presentation a short history of trusted hardware, how Open Source code can be designed today on modern trusted execution environments to provide a flexible and auditable environment to delegate the security critical parts of smart contracts, and the security compromises made when dealing with the opaque features of trusted hardware.
