The Solana Foundation and Nito launched Solana Confidential Compute on November 13, 2026, an open-source software development kit and on-chain verification program for private AI applications. The unaudited beta runs on Solana devnet, with a mainnet release planned but no date announced. It supports attestations from Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP, while NVIDIA GPU verification remains in development. AI processing occurs off-chain inside trusted execution environments, while Solana stores hardware-verification records that applications can inspect before accepting signed results. The system can protect prompts and responses from intermediaries, although servers may still observe metadata such as IP addresses, account details, request timing and encrypted message size. The release is aimed at developers building and testing applications, including private assistants, confidential business agents, trading tools, prediction-market and insurance decisions, and governance systems. It adds to Solana’s broader privacy initiatives, including Solana Privacy Rings and confidential token vesting, while retaining the trust and software risks associated with hardware manufacturers, published code and unaudited infrastructure.