Chainless EP-02 (Part 1): Introduction to TEEs with Saul of Livy

Meet Saul—a software engineer and former computer-science student—founded Livy which aims to build the provenance layer with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) by making TEE development more accessible. Co-hosts Brian Seong Senior DevRel Engineer Polygon Labs and author of Chainless Whitepaper and Rongxin of the WhitepaperReadingClub Key Topics: - Why ZK development is too complex and slow for most use cases - How TEEs provide verifiable computation with better performance - Security trade-offs: mathematical proofs vs hardware attestation - TEE limitations and real-world applications Timestamps 02:15 - Meet Saul from Livy 12:45 - Problems with ZK Development 18:20 - What are TEEs? 25:10 - Where to Get TEE Hardware 32:40 - TEE Limitations & Storage 38:15 - Security: Side Channel Attacks 45:30 - Security Spectrum: ZK vs TEE vs Ethereum 52:00 - Math Security vs Economic Security Saul https://x.com/saugardev #TEE #ZKProofs #Blockchain #Livy #Polygon #DecentralizedComputing #Web3 #security