Monthly Wrap-Up July 2024: Talking at Decoded, Launching Treasury Proposals, Publishing Articles & More

Business Updates

Integritee at Polkadot Decoded 2024
Last month, Integritee’s co-founders, Alain Brenzikofer, and Waldemar Scherer, were in Brussels attending this year’s Polkadot Decoded. Besides connecting with fellow developers and innovators, we took the stage to present Incognitee, our ongoing project where privacy is key. Several people showed interest and asked for more details regarding the technology.

If you were unable to watch Alain’s talk live, don’t miss the recording.

Incognitee Bug Bounty Update
Last month, an experienced white-hat hacker found a low-severity weakness in one of our repositories linked to the remote attestation feature. There is a denial of service issue in a remote attestation client TLS message parser in the following GitHub repo. The detection of this issue was awarded with $1,000 in TEER and will be fixed by our experts.

Unpermissioned Collators Update
One month ago, we launched a collator campaign to incentivize external operators to establish an unpermissioned operation of the Integritee Network funded by the Integritee Treasury. Within a couple of days, the first collators started to operate independently.

Currently, the minimum TEER required to be considered an active collator is 976 TEER. Check the documentation and run your first Integritee Network collator!

Incognitee Test Wallet on Paseo
Incognitee is a solution designed to transfer digital assets privately. We’ve also launched a test wallet on Paseo for everyone to try out. If you’re eager to experience it firsthand, don’t hesitate to click here and learn how Incognitee works, and why it is relevant.

Polkadot Treasury: Proposals Ongoing
We are urging DOT holders to vote for our two ongoing Polkadot treasury proposals. #997 aims to retroactively back the work of building Incognitee, and #998 is intended to further the development of this innovative, privacy-preserving solution. If you want to see Incognitee thrive, don’t hesitate to cast your vote!

• https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/997
• https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/998

Fresh content
The Importance of Securing OT Systems
This month, we released an article titled “Cybercrime on the Rise: Why Is Securing OT Systems Paramount?” in which we explore Operational Technology systems, how prone they are to cyber attacks, and how to mitigate them. If you’re interested in knowing why safeguarding these systems is so important.

Hyperautomation
How can blockchain technology be used to enhance and develop many other areas besides crypto? The article ”Hyperautomation: The Power of Blending AI, Blockchain, and RPA” sheds light on the subject of how this technology, together with hyperautomation techniques, can revolutionize companies and entire industries.

Community update
We also had “It’s TEE Time!” episode 18, which is already out on YouTube for everyone to check out. If you’re interested in knowing what July’s chat was about, click here.

Governance

Referendum #34: Collator Bounty Curators
The Integritee council proposed three core team members as curators for bounty #0 in a 2/3 multisig. All proposed members are to be councilors of Integritee Network as well. Referendum #34 ended with 100% Aye votes and 7 participants! Check more info here.

Tech Updates

Technical advancements:

Integritee Parachain & SDK:

• Move sidechain_importBlock rpc method to trusted rpc:
  The main goal of this PR is to move sidechain_importBlock from untrusted rpc endpoint to trusted. By doing so, there is no need to query for untrusted url anymore during peers update.

Incognitee:

• Design of a dashboard to cover different categories and functionalities additional to the wallet
• Start development of the dashboard

For all details, check our repository.

What’s Ahead

Incognitee: Next Steps
After successfully conducting the first Incognitee user testing campaign, launching the bug bounty campaign, and also the first beta wallet to be used by everyone to securely execute private transfers on Paseo, we are continuously working towards production readiness. In the meantime, we will launch new user campaigns to test things out and engage with our community.

Tech updates
More features around our Attesteer, our Teeracle, and the privacy Sidechains will be released in the upcoming weeks.

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About Integritee

Integritee is the most scalable, privacy-enabling network with a Parachain on Kusama and Polkadot. Our SDK solution combines the security and trust of Polkadot, the scalability of second-layer Sidechains, and the confidentiality of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), special-purpose hardware based on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology inside which computations run securely, confidentially, and verifiably.

Community & Social Media:
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Products:
L2 Sidechains | Trusted Off-chain Workers | Teeracle | Attesteer | Securitee | Incognitee

Integritee Network:
Governance | Explorer | Mainnet | Github

TEER on Exchanges:
Kraken | Gate | Basilisk