Getting Started

Key Concepts

The vocabulary behind AIDOS, in plain language. Skim it once and the product pages will read easily.

Privacy & cryptography

Zero-knowledge proof (ZK): A way to prove a statement is true — “I have enough funds” — without revealing the data behind it (the actual amount).
Commitment: A cryptographic stand-in for a value. It locks in the value and can be verified later, but reveals nothing about it on its own.
Shielded balance (zkUSDC): Your money represented as a commitment rather than a public number. Mathematically opaque to AIDOS, chain observers, and analysts.
Selective disclosure: Proving exactly one fact (KYC passed, funds sufficient, not sanctioned) to exactly one party, without exposing documents, amounts, or history to anyone else.
Client-side proof verification: Verifying a transaction’s ZK proof locally on your own device — no need to trust a server to tell you it was valid.

TEE (Trusted Execution Environment): A hardware-isolated secure enclave (e.g. Intel TDX). Code and data inside are sealed — even the machine’s operator can’t observe them.
Remote attestation: A cryptographic proof that the code running inside an enclave is exactly what you deployed, unaltered. Tampering changes the attestation and is detectable.
Receipt chaining: Linking each agent action’s cryptographic receipt into a tamper-evident history that shows precisely what the agent did, and when.
Warrant canary: A signed statement refreshed on a fixed cadence. Its continued presence affirms integrity; its sudden silence is itself a warning signal.

Darkpool: A venue where orders are matched privately, off the public mempool, so no one can see your intent before it executes.
Batch auction: Orders are pooled and cleared together at a fair price, instead of one-by-one — so no single participant can be picked off in isolation.
MEV (Maximal Extractable Value): Value bots extract by reordering or front-running your public transactions (e.g. sandwich attacks). With no public mempool, there’s no surface for it.
Midpoint pricing: Executing at the fair market midpoint rather than a price bots have already moved against you.
ZK settlement: Only a valid zero-knowledge proof of a swap reaches the chain — no amount, no pair, and no trader address.

Self-custody: You hold your keys at all times. AIDOS never takes custody and can’t sign on your behalf — so there’s no account to freeze and nothing to seize from AIDOS.
Neo bank: A digital-first bank experience (balance, card, IBAN, yield). AIDOS is a privacy-native one: the same features, but the protocol can’t see your money.
Solana: The settlement chain AIDOS uses — ~400 ms finality and ~$0.00025 fees, with a maturing privacy stack to build on.

Ready to see how these fit together? Read How It Works, then the Architecture.