Oasis Protocol Launches ROFL Framework for Offchain AI Computations

The Oasis Protocol Foundation has announced the official mainnet launch of Runtime Offchain Logic (ROFL), a new framework designed to enable developers to perform complex computations offchain while retaining blockchain-level trust, verification, and privacy. This launch is a significant step in bridging the gap between Web3 and AI, allowing for the execution of intensive workloads such as AI model training, inference, and data analysis without compromising decentralization or trust.

ROFL leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to create a secure enclave for offchain computations. These results can then be cryptographically verified and connected back to smart contracts on-chain, opening up new possibilities for AI and blockchain applications. The framework is positioned as the “Trustless AWS,” providing developers with a robust infrastructure for building privacy-preserving consumer and finance applications.

Jernej Kos, co-founder of the Oasis Protocol Foundation, emphasized the importance of privacy and transparency in the development of AI applications. He highlighted that ROFL serves as a plug-and-play infrastructure for the next wave of AI applications, ensuring that developers can focus on building applications with these principles built into their infrastructure.

Two early projects already utilizing ROFL demonstrate the platform’s versatility. Zeph, a privacy-first AI companion platform, uses ROFL to maintain user data confidentiality through trusted execution environments. This is particularly important in a space where security concerns are prevalent, as highlighted by a 2023 study in the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, which found that 74% of companion apps posed “Critical” or “High” security risks. Zeph ensures that sensitive data remains protected and verifiable.

WT3, an autonomous AI agent for decentralized trading strategies, is leveraging ROFL to deliver fully private, trustless key management and trade execution. The project has received $100,000 in seed capital from the Oasis Protocol Foundation to accelerate its development. The pipeline for ROFL is expanding to support a wide variety of future products, including game hosting, MCP servers, LLM oracles, price oracles, AI-powered chatbots, and more.

ROFL’s integration with the Oasis TEE Cloud offers developers a full end-to-end TEE-as-a-Service, making it a white-label compute layer where powerful services can be deployed with built-in privacy, trust, and scalability. By combining blockchain’s integrity with the processing power of offchain computation, ROFL addresses two of today’s biggest tech challenges: the blockchain ecosystem’s limited application layer and AI’s pervasive trust issues.

Builders interested in exploring how to leverage ROFL can visit oasis.net/rofl-deck for more information. The Oasis Protocol Foundation, steward of the Oasis Network, is a Layer 1 blockchain platform focused on privacy, scalability, and versatility. It offers the first production-ready confidential EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine), Sapphire, enabling privacy-preserving smart contracts and decentralized applications. The network is expanding its focus to include AI applications, positioning itself at the intersection of blockchain, privacy, and artificial intelligence.