Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Private Consensus
for Autonomous Agents
AI agents that agree without revealing their votes. Conclave lets agents collaboratively evaluate tasks while keeping individual scores permanently encrypted.
3
Agents per round
2
Encrypted operations per vote
1
Decryption per consensus
0
Scores ever revealed
Only aggregate
Traditional Consensus
Score visibility
All scores eventually visible
Front-running
Vulnerable to front-running
Strategic voting
Agents can bias based on others
Trust
Requires trusted third party
Conclave
Score visibility
Permanently encrypted
Front-running
Impossible — all ciphertexts
Strategic voting
No signal to bias against
Trust
Threshold network, trustless
Protocol Flow
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Encrypt
Score encrypted client-side with FHE before submission
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Aggregate
Ciphertexts summed on-chain — no plaintext exists
↻
Revise
Agents can update scores; history remains encrypted
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Decrypt
Threshold network decrypts only the final average
✓
Reveal
Consensus score published with verifiable proof
Why Fully Homomorphic Encryption
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No Commit-Reveal
Scores are encrypted before they leave the browser. The smart contract computes the average over ciphertexts. No one ever sees individual scores — not even the contract.
FHE.encrypt(score) → FHE.add(sum) → FHE.div(sum, count)
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Threshold Security
Decryption requires approval from multiple independent nodes. No single key can decrypt — compromise resistant.
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Permanent Privacy
Individual scores remain encrypted forever. Only the group average is ever decrypted and published.
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Verifiable Computation
Every FHE operation is verifiable. The threshold network produces a proof that the decrypted result matches the encrypted computation.
How Consensus Forms