Gilles Fedak
Co-Founder and CEO at iExec
Gilles Fedak is CEO & co-founder of iExec: Blockchain-based Decentralized Cloud Computing. We issued the RLC token (listed on coinmarketcap) and realized the first major ICO in France on April th, , raising . Bitcoins (equivalent to . million USD) in less than hours. iExec builds a decentralized market place for computing resources using the Ethereum blockchain. The first version of the product released in November allows Ethereum Dapps a scalable, secure and affordable access for their off-chain computations.Before that, I was a permanent INRIA research scientist at ENS- Lyon, France (Homepage: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~gfedak/). After receiving my Ph.D degree from University Paris Sud in , I followed a postdoctoral fellowship at University California San Diego. I produced pioneering software and algorithms in the field of Grid and Cloud Computing that allow people to easily harness large parallel systems consisting of thousands of machines distributed on the Internet (XtremWeb, MPICH-V, BitDew, SpeQulos, Xtrem- MapReduce, Active Data, …). I co-authored more than peer-reviewed scientific papers and won two Best Paper awards. In , I co-edited with C. Cérin the Desktop Grid Computing Book, (CRC publication). In , I received the Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI Award.
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Great to see @iEx_ec laying out the trust foundation behind Nox—from Intel TDX and dstack boot-time attestation to secrets released only to known workloads. This is verifiable confidential compute becoming real infrastructure for onchain finance. Congrats to the iExec team 👏
The Premonition Vault: a sealed-prediction engine on Nox by @iEx_ec, powered by ChainGPT. Crypto Twitter is full of "I called it" posts nobody can verify. Tweets get deleted. Screenshots get faked. We built a demo to fix it. Predictions are encrypted client-side via Nox by iExec, then judged by a
Onchain confidentiality is about what smart contracts can securely do with data, not just how that data is stored. Nox uses Intel TDX TEEs to run financial logic on confidential inputs. Balance updates, transfers, vault rebalancing, lending conditions, all executed inside a protected environment.