In the future AgenticWorld, millions of AI agents will work collaboratively, inevitably reshaping the way human society operates. From medical diagnosis to financial decision-making, from autonomous driving to cross-chain collaboration, the potential of these agents is enormous. However, their development will be challenging without the foundation of security and trust. Building such a world requires meeting several key conditions, and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) technology is central to supporting these conditions.
Firstly, we can now see that building the agentic world requires establishing at least four major pillars: absolute assurance of data privacy, decentralized collaboration mechanisms, verifiable transparency and trust, and a dynamically evolving economic ecology.
The data processed by AI agents often involves personal health, financial assets, or commercial secrets, and leakage could lead to catastrophic consequences. Traditional encryption technologies can only protect data during transmission or storage, but decryption is still required during processing, leaving exposure to risk. Therefore, agents must be able to complete computations while the data remains encrypted at all times, ensuring that the original information is never exposed.
Centralized systems have single points of failure and are easily manipulated. The future agent network must rely on a distributed architecture, enabling seamless collaboration between AIs on different chains and protocols. This collaboration not only requires efficient interoperability but also ensures that participants cannot collude to commit wrongdoing, maintaining the fairness of the system.
When agents provide decision-making suggestions, users need to verify the authenticity and reasonableness of the results. For example, is the medical AI’s treatment plan based on correct data? Has the investment suggestion been verified by multiple parties? This requires the agent's computation process to both protect privacy through encryption and generate an auditable trail for third-party verification.
The growth of agents cannot be separated from incentives. Users activate AI by staking tokens and push its evolution through task rewards; developers earn revenue by creating tools or protocols. This self-circulating economic system must balance security and efficiency, avoid centralized monopolies, and attract diverse participants.
In the future world of agents, FHE will serve as the secure cryptography of the agentic world, supporting the entire AgenticWorld with its balance of privacy and collaboration, the cornerstone of decentralized trust, and the seamless integration of cross-chain collaboration.
Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is known as the 'Holy Grail of cryptography,' and its core capability lies in allowing computation directly on encrypted data, with results still output in ciphertext. This feature makes it the key technology for solving the security challenges of the AgenticWorld.
Taking the medical scenario as an example, sharing patient data between hospitals may enhance diagnostic accuracy, but the risk of data leakage is extremely high. With FHE, medical AI can analyze encrypted CT images or medical records directly without decrypting the original data. Even if the data is intercepted during transmission, attackers cannot obtain valid information. A similar logic applies to cross-chain financial collaboration—users' encrypted asset allocations can be jointly analyzed by multiple AIs, generating investment recommendations while privacy remains protected.
In traditional blockchains, consensus relies on a network of validators, but collaboration between agents requires a more complex trust mechanism. FHE supports the construction of a 'zero trust' environment: agents exchange information through encrypted communication and verify each other’s actions through ciphertext computation. For example, when multiple AIs collaborate to formulate lending strategies, FHE ensures that each participant's computation is independent and tamper-proof, with the final result reaching consensus after encrypted aggregation, avoiding interference from malicious nodes.
In the future, agents may be distributed across multiple chains such as Ethereum and Solana, facing data silos and security risks during collaboration. FHE technology supports the construction of cross-chain hubs, allowing AIs from different chains to perform tasks in an encrypted state, with results coordinated by the Hub and returned to users. This design preserves the independence of each chain while achieving efficient interaction through a unified protocol.
Currently, teams like Mind Network have pushed FHE technology out of the laboratory. For example, their collaboration with medical institutions has developed the 'World AI Health Hub', which allows AI to perform diagnostic collaboration on encrypted data; in cases integrated with DeFi platforms, user asset information is encrypted throughout, and AI-generated strategies are decrypted and delivered after verification by multiple parties. Furthermore, FHE is also used to protect open-source models, ensuring their secure reasoning in untrusted environments.
These applications indicate that FHE is not just a technical concept but also the 'secure operating system' of the agentic world. It allows data to create value while locking risks within ciphertext.
The vision of the AgenticWorld is not unattainable, but its realization relies on the deep integration of security, collaboration, and trust. FHE technology acts as an invisible link, connecting every aspect of the agent ecosystem—from privacy protection to cross-chain consensus, from individual evolution to collective collaboration. As these elements gradually become complete, we may truly welcome a future driven by AI agents: humans no longer fatigued by trivial tasks, but working hand in hand with intelligent partners to explore broader boundaries of civilization.
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