Cross-Chain Sealed-Bid Auctions Using Confidential Compute Blockchains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19491v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:35:51 GMT
• Title: Cross-Chain Sealed-Bid Auctions Using Confidential Compute Blockchains
• Authors: Jonas Gebele, Timm Mutzel, Burak Oez, Florian Matthes,
• Abstract summary: Sealed-bid auctions ensure fair competition and efficient allocation but are often deployed on centralized infrastructure.<n>Public blockchains eliminate central control, yet their inherent transparency conflicts with the confidentiality required for sealed bidding.<n>We present a sealed-bid auction protocol that executes sensitive bidding logic on a confidential compute blockchain.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sealed-bid auctions ensure fair competition and efficient allocation but are often deployed on centralized infrastructure, enabling opaque manipulation. Public blockchains eliminate central control, yet their inherent transparency conflicts with the confidentiality required for sealed bidding. Prior attempts struggle to reconcile privacy, verifiability, and scalability without relying on trusted intermediaries, multi-round protocols, or expensive cryptography. We present a sealed-bid auction protocol that executes sensitive bidding logic on a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)-backed confidential compute blockchain while retaining settlement and enforcement on a public chain. Bidders commit funds to enclave-generated escrow addresses, ensuring confidentiality and binding commitments. After the deadline, any party can trigger resolution: the confidential blockchain determines the winner through verifiable off-chain computation and issues signed settlement transactions for execution on the public chain. Our design provides security, privacy, and scalability without trusted third parties or protocol modifications. We implement it on SUAVE with Ethereum settlement, evaluate its scalability and trust assumptions, and demonstrate deployment with minimal integration on existing infrastructure

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