With Marvin Tong, Co-founder at Phala Network

This week, we spoke with Marvin Tong, co-founder of Phala Network, about their mission to eliminate centralized trust from Web3 through cryptography and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). Key takeaways include:
Phala’s evolution, from a fully decentralized confidential cloud network to finding product-market fit with TEE-based services for developers and enterprises.
TEE as a Web3 infrastructure, enabling off-chain computation with verifiability, used in AI, DeFi, and decentralized identity.
The role of DStack, Phala Cloud, and TEE-as-a-service, providing accessible tools for developers to deploy secure computation environments.
Phala 2.0 and the move to an OP-succinct Layer 2, making TEE more accessible for Ethereum developers while maintaining decentralization.
AI and Web3, from verifiable inference to autonomous AI agents with secure on-chain interoperability—shaping the future of collective intelligence and unlocking new economic potential.

Links

Phala's Website: https://phala.network/

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