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Q1. For readers who may only know TEN from recent headlines, how do you explain TEN Protocol’s core mission and the problem it is fundamentally designed to solve within Ethereum’s execution landscape? Ethereum did something radical: it made computation globally verifiable by making everything public. That trade-off unlocked trustless finance – but it also quietly broke a huge class of real applications. Today, when you use most Ethereum L2s, you’re not just executing a transaction. You’re broadcasting your intent, your strategy, your timing, and often your economic reasoning to every bot, competitor, and adversary watching the chain. That visibility enables verification – but it also enables front-running, strategy extraction, behavioural surveillance, and entire attack markets built on copying intent faster than humans can react. TEN exists to break that false binary. Our mission is simple to state but hard to execute: let people use Ethereum applications without revealing what they’re trying to do, while still preserving Ethereum-grade verifiability. With the right cryptography and execution model, you can prove that computation was correct without revealing the inputs, intermediate steps, or private logic behind it. In practice, this changes everything. Node operators can’t front-run. AI agents can safely hold secrets. Games can exist on-chain without exposing hidden state. Bids don’t get copied. Applications don’t have to leak sensitive information just to be provable. TEN is about restoring something blockchains accidentally removed: the ability to compute in confidence. Q2. TEN positions “compute in confidence” as a missing primitive in today’s blockchain stack. Why is selective confidentiality increasingly necessary for real-world DeFi, AI, gaming, and enterprise use cases? Every successful software system in the world relies on access control.On Facebook, you don’t see every post – only what you’re allowed to see. In banking, your balance isn’t public. In games, opponents don’t see your…

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