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Building a Confidential Web3 Application with Oasis

The Problem

Web3 applications increasingly need reputation, risk scoring, and trust signals.

However, current solutions have a major issue:

• Reputation systems expose user data publicly
• Credit/risk models require sending sensitive data to centralized servers
• Wallet analytics often reveal full transaction history
• AI scoring pipelines break user privacy

This creates a trade-off between useful intelligence and data confidentiality.

The goal of this project was to remove that trade-off.


PrivateAI Oracle

A privacy-preserving trust scoring system that:

  1. Collects wallet or activity signals
  2. Runs an AI-based trust evaluation off-chain
  3. Produces a verifiable score
  4. Stores proof/commitment on Oasis confidential smart contracts

The system allows applications to query a user's trust score without revealing the underlying private data used to compute it.


Why Oasis Network

This architecture relies on Oasis confidential computing features.

Using Sapphire (confidential EVM runtime):

  • Sensitive inputs remain encrypted
  • Smart contract state is confidential when required
  • Only final outputs are selectively revealed

This makes Oasis ideal for AI + blockchain workflows involving private datasets.

Traditional public chains would expose:

  • model inputs
  • intermediate scoring logic
  • sensitive user metadata

Oasis prevents this.


Architecture

The system consists of three main components:

Data Collection Layer

Collects public or permissioned signals such as:

  • wallet activity patterns
  • GitHub contribution signals
  • behavioral indicators

Only necessary features are extracted.


Off-Chain AI Inference Engine

A machine learning model computes:

  • a normalized trust score
  • optional confidence level

The raw feature data never needs to be publicly stored on-chain.


Oasis Confidential Smart Contract

The contract:

  • receives a signed result
  • records a commitment hash
  • allows verification of authenticity
  • exposes only the final trust score

This preserves verifiability while protecting user privacy.


What This Enables

PrivateAI Oracle can be used for:

  • DeFi borrower trust scoring without exposing full history
  • DAO contributor reputation without revealing private activity
  • sybil-resistant onboarding systems
  • Privacy-preserving AI reputation layers
  • Secure Web3 identity primitives

Technical Takeaways

During development, several important lessons emerged:

  • Confidential smart contracts change how data pipelines must be designed
  • AI outputs should be treated as attestations, not raw datasets
  • Privacy must be built into architecture, not added later
  • Hybrid off-chain compute + on-chain proof is extremely powerful

Results

The final prototype demonstrates:

  • End-to-end confidential trust scoring
  • AI inference integrated with Oasis smart contracts
  • Selective transparency (score visible, data hidden)
  • Practical architecture for privacy-preserving Web3 intelligence

Future Implementations that could help

  • Zero-knowledge proof integration for stronger verification
  • Multi-model scoring pipelines
  • public demo UI
  • Integration with lending or DAO onboarding flows

Web3 does not just need decentralization.

It needs private, verifiable intelligence.

PrivateAI Oracle explores how Oasis confidential computing can enable exactly that.

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