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Octra Network deploys on-chain FHE machine learning with governance and zero-knowledge verification, letting anyone run private ML inference directly on-chain. Octra Network has pushed something that most blockchain developers said was years away. A fully homomorphic encryption machine learning contract is now live on devnet. No trusted execution environments. No coprocessors. According to @lambda0xE on X, the team deployed a complex FHE-supported contract directly within the on-chain state. As lambda0xE posted on X, the contract handles model weights, inference, governance, and treasury functions all in one place. Operations are described as “incredibly cheap.” Must Read: From Legacy Rails to Blockchain: Why Big Banks Are Betting on Tokenization What the FHE Contract Actually Does The contract accepts linear model weights uploaded directly into its internal state. From there, users choose between two modes. Public inference runs the full calculation openly, weights times inputs plus bias, all visible. Private inference is different. In the private path, all encryption happens on the client side. Ciphertexts travel to the contract. The contract then computes homomorphically within the current state. As lambda0xE explained on X, neither the network, the contract owner, nor any other participant can see plaintext or user data at any point. What caught attention from the broader developer community is the precision claim. Public and private outputs match bit for bit. No approximations. Exact arithmetic throughout. You Might Also Like: ETH Funding Flips Positive as $262M Inflows Break 35-Day Slide The contract source sits publicly at GitHub under octra-labs. Developers wanting to test it need the updated webcli, available at octra-labs/webcli, plus a funded wallet. The deployed contract address is live on devnet.octrascan.io. Governance, ZK Proofs, and Batch Weight Uploads The deployment does not stop at private inference. Lambda0xE noted on X that a governance example runs alongside it, covering proposals, votes,…

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