Session Recap | 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 19th Sept | Topic: Private Distributed Inference on Consumer Hardware WPRC took over the @ETHKL1 Hacker House for an afternoon on this question: can a stranger’s Mac run your prompts without reading them? 📖 Read a full summary here - drive.google.com/file/d/1rHJ… 📝 Topic Overview & TL;DR Over 100 million @Apple Silicon Macs sit idle most of the day. Darkbloom wants to rent that capacity out as an inference network where the Mac owner cannot see the prompt, even with root access. The catch is that Apple Silicon has no SGX-style TEE for third-party code. A TEE is a sealed hardware zone the machine’s owner cannot look inside, so Darkbloom builds the guarantee from four layers instead: Secure Enclave identity, Apple-signed attestation, MDM cross-checks and a hardened process. ✍🏻 1st argument - Where does plaintext actually exist. Darkbloom is hop-by-hop encrypted, not end-to-end, which means each leg of the trip is encrypted but the prompt gets unwrapped at the stops. The coordinator is confidential, but the provider’s hardened process has to decrypt your prompt to run the model in memory. So the whole privacy claim comes down to one thing: is that process truly sealed off from the person who owns the machine. ✍🏻 2nd argument - is four layers a substitute for a real TEE. Darkbloom says the only attack left is physically probing the memory soldered into the chip, the same residual threat Apple accepts for Private Cloud Compute. But PCC runs on Apple’s own servers in its datacenters. Darkbloom runs on someone’s desk. ✍🏻 3rd argument: every layer roots back to Apple. Secure Enclave, the attestation certificate and MDM are all Apple-controlled, so the compute is decentralized but the root of trust is not. The room split on whether that is a flaw or just an honest trade-off. None of it would have been possible without your support! Our session lead: @StPinkie Our moderators: @yudhishthra @shuenrui Our venue partner: @ETHKL1 🫶🏻 Missed this session? No worries! Stay tuned for our upcoming events👇🏻 luma.com/whitepaper

Upcoming Event | Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 | 19th Sept | WPRC @ KL EP13 is here! 📍 ETHKL Hacker House TOPIC: Private Distributed Inference on Consumer Hardware Register Now - luma.com/wprc-my-260919-priv… 🗣️ Special thanks to: Session lead: Amazing summary done by @StPinkie (ONE OF THE BEST JOBS WE'VE SEEN!) Moderators: @0xYudhishthra & @shuenrui Thank you for offering us their space @ETHKL1 👀 Over 100M Apple Silicon Macs sit idle most of the day - DarkBloom @eigenlabs rents that capacity out as an @OpenAI-compatible inference network, and claims the Mac owner can't read the prompts their own machine processes. 📝 Topic & TL;DR: Private Distributed Inference on Consumer Hardware (DarkBloom) @Apple Silicon has no SGX-style TEE for third-party code. So the paper builds its privacy guarantee out of Secure Enclave identity, Apple-signed attestation, MDM cross-checks, and a hardened process instead. We'll deep dive whether that claim actually holds - kernel lockdown, memory sanitization, and the APNs code-identity oracle DarkBloom repurposes to verify binaries. 📖 Summary - drive.google.com/file/d/1rHJ… 💡 Paper/Source - github.com/Layr-Labs/d-infer… #WPRC #CryptoEvent #Blockchain #Web3 #Web3Event