TechFlow reports that Ethereum L2 project Fhenix has announced a collaboration with EigenLayer to develop an FHE co-processor, aiming to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to smart contracts.
According to the announcement, a co-processor is an auxiliary processor designed to perform specialized tasks more efficiently than a central processing unit. A current industry example is the zero-knowledge (zk) co-processor, used to scale zk rollup computations off-chain. The FHE co-processor is similar in concept but specifically focuses on enabling computations on encrypted data without requiring decryption first. The FHE co-processor will ensure that sensitive and complex computational tasks are not processed directly on Ethereum or its subsequent L2 or L3 networks, but instead handled by designated processors.
