Blockchains work because they make execution and settlement transparent, but that same transparency becomes a liability the moment coordination depends on private inputs. Public votes get bribed or socially pressured into outcomes nobody actually wanted, visible bids get front-run before they ever clear and useful coordination mechanisms fall apart the moment every input has to be broadcast to the network.

This partnership closes that gap by pairing Taiko's Ethereum-equivalent execution with The Interfold's confidential coordination layer, which lets applications take private inputs from users and agents while still settling verifiable outcomes onchain without handing execution authority to a single operator.

Initial use cases

The first is agentic proxies for Taiko’s Aragon DAO instance. These are programmable agents that can act on behalf of participants without forcing users to expose the strategy or decision logic behind each action. Instead of manually interacting with governance or coordination processes, users can delegate actions to agents that operate privately while still producing verifiable outcomes on Taiko. 

The second is secret ballots, also via Taiko’s Aragon DAO. Today, most onchain voting is fully public, which can introduce social pressure, bribery and strategic behavior. With The Interfold, votes get submitted privately and tallied in a way that preserves both confidentiality and correctness. The final result is verifiable onchain, but individual votes remain hidden. This enables governance that is both verifiable and genuinely private.

The third is sealed-bid auctions on Taiko Swap. In traditional onchain trading, intent is visible before execution, which is exactly what MEV and front-running feed on. Sealed-bid auctions flip that dynamic by allowing users to submit bids privately. Prices are determined without exposing individual bids upfront, and the final outcome is still settled transparently onchain. This leads to fairer execution and more efficient price discovery.

What this unlocks

For the Taiko ecosystem, this opens up a broader design space for coordination onchain. DAOs can move beyond fully transparent governance. DeFi protocols can build market mechanisms that collapse when all intent is visible before execution. Builders can design applications that rely on shared outcomes without forcing users to reveal everything upfront.

Instead of treating transparency as the default for every layer of coordination, developers on Taiko get to be more precise about what needs to be public and what should stay confidential.

Where The Interfold fits

The Interfold provides the confidential coordination layer that sits alongside Taiko’s execution environment. While Taiko ensures that outcomes are verified and settled onchain, The Interfold enables confidential execution so sensitive inputs remain protected throughout the entire coordination process while results can still be verified onchain.

Rather than replacing transparency, The Interfold refines it, separating what needs to be public (results, correctness, settlement) from what should remain confidential (intent, input, strategy).

This is the starting point. As we continue working together, we expect to expand these primitives across more applications in the Taiko ecosystem and explore new forms of private, verifiable coordination.

Explore Taiko at https://taiko.xyz/ and learn more about The Interfold athttps://theinterfold.com/.

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