splitting Avalon main into two independent parts – blockchain connectors and confidential computing (Intel SGX based) core. The SGX core may be potentially hosted at Confidential Computing Consortium while Avalon itself will focus on the blockchain integration.
Updates:
Current Plans
The team is working towards release 0.7 that includes
- Refine Avalon technical direction and plans with additional emphases on the edge
- Integrate with K8S with emphasis on end-to-end ease of use
- Complete scone runtime integration (including documentation and samples)
- Update documentation, tutorials and examples
- Establish ongoing relationships with relevant projects like Alvarium and Confidential Compute Consortium
Maintainer Diversity
The team welcomes Mujtaba Idrees from T-Systems as a new Avalon maintainer. He is initial focus is on adding Scone as a supported SGX runtime to Avalon project.
Project
Hyperledger Avalon
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| Description | Hyperledger Avalon enables privacy in blockchain transactions, moving intensive processing from a main blockchain to improve scalability and latency, and to support attested Oracles |
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Project Health
Project health continues to improve. A minor difficulty arose as members of the Sovrin Foundation paid staff were laid off. As members of that paid staff contributed to several code projects and community coordination within the Aries project some of those efforts briefly struggled as other community sponsors were found to help support that work. That disruption unfortunately includes the timely generation of this quarterly report. Overall, the Aries project was only very lightly affected; meetings were held, major code projects continued work without interruption, and releases continued. The lack of major disruption is a credit to the health and diversity of the project and broad support of active community members.
Key Characteristics
- Hyperledger Avalon leverages the existence of a distributed ledger to:
- Maintain a registry of the trusted workers (including their attestation info)
- Provide a mechanism for submitting work orders from a client(s) to a worker
- Preserve a log of work order receipts and acknowledgments
- Hyperledger Avalon uses the Off-Chain Trusted Compute Specification defined by Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) Task Force as a starting point to apply a consistent and compatible approach to all supported blockchains
Documentation
Project Management
- Bug tracking to be enabled at https://jira.hyperledger.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa