Mind Network and BytePlus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly advance verifiable, privacy-first AI infrastructure. This integration marks a tangible step forward, bringing cryptographic guarantees into real-world AI systems at scale.
Verifiability is an essential foundation for the future of intelligent infrastructure. In partnership with BytePlus, the enterprise technology arm of ByteDance, Mind Network brings these guarantees into production-grade AI systems.
This integration introduces a new layer of cryptographic trust into the BytePlus ecosystem. The Secure AgenticWorld framework, powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), together with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), gives AI workloads native end-to-end privacy and verifiable integrity. No code rewrites are required, and performance remains uncompromised.
“AI agents are no longer confined to narrow tasks. They write code, manage assets, and make decisions that directly impact real-world systems. This level of autonomy demands a higher standard of trust.. Secure AgenticWorld allows developers to prove model behavior and execution integrity without ever exposing raw data or relying on third-party trust. By embedding these guarantees at the cloud layer, Mind Network ensures that every agent starts secure and stays secure, from deployment to runtime.” — Christian Pusateri, CEO of Mind Network
Why trust is now the limiting factor for AI agents
Generative AI has moved beyond chatbots. Autonomous “agents” schedule meetings, execute trades, and rewrite code, often with access to wallets or proprietary data. As adoption accelerates, three questions define production readiness:
Can we prove an agent's output comes from an un-tampered model?
Can we verify that the environment it ran in was not compromised?
Can we offer these guarantees without exposing user data?
Traditional approaches rely on Trusted Execution Environments or zero-knowledge proofs. Both help, yet each still reveals metadata or requires heavy pre-processing. Mind Network’s use of FHE lets cloud nodes compute directly on encrypted inputs so data stays opaque from start to finish. The result is a “never trust, always verify” posture that BytePlus can now extend to every tenant.
How Secure AgenticWorld works on BytePlus
At the core of the integration, Mind Network provides the FHE Validation MCP. Developers fork a template validation node, insert model-specific logic, and deploy it using BytePlus Function-as-a-Service.
Runs the check entirely inside an FHE circuit.
Encrypts its verdict again before posting it to a Validation Hub smart contract.
Reaches consensus with sibling nodes through FHE-encrypted on-chain voting.
Because the vote happens on ciphertext, collusion and data leakage become mathematically infeasible. The approach also scales linearly as new hubs and domain-specific validators join, so BytePlus customers can mix community-run nodes with their own enterprise validators for additional assurances.
For end users, the flow is one click: connect a Web3 wallet, sign a nonce, and trigger validation. No private keys ever leave the wallet. No plaintext prompt or result ever hits a server.
Immediate impact across individual and enterprise platforms
Coze – The newly launched agent workspace lets builders chain tools and LLMs into production agents. By making the MCP plug-in available in Coze's “Resource Library,” developers can add privacy-preserving validation to a project in minutes, then publish an agent that proves its own integrity to downstream consumers. This turns security from an afterthought into a default setting.
Lark – Enterprise teams already rely on Lark for chat, video, and cloud docs. With Secure AgenticWorld, AI meeting-summarizers, language translators, or code-review bots embedded in Lark can be audited by counterparties while shielding company IP. Board-level conversations stay private even when processed in the cloud.
Each scenario highlights a core advantage: the same cryptography that prevents data leakage also creates an auditable trail. Regulators, partners, and even users can confirm model provenance and execution history without Mind Network or BytePlus serving as a root-of-trust.
What the partnership means for Web3 and Web2 convergence
BytePlus originally emerged to commercialize ByteDance's AI toolchain in traditional markets AI Business, and provides core infrastructure for global platforms such as Lark, Coze, and TikTok.
Mind Network, backed by investors such as Binance Labs and Chainlink, has been bridging Web3 cryptography to mainstream developers through its HTTPZ vision of a fully encrypted internet. Bringing the two together marks a substantial inflection point.
In short, Secure AgenticWorld on BytePlus provides a common substrate where decentralized verifiability meets mass-market scalability.
Looking ahead
Mind Network has open-sourced the MCP server on GitHub and published a TypeScript SDK for writing custom validation logic. BytePlus will list the plug-in in its official marketplace later this quarter, and both companies plan joint hackathons to seed privacy-first agent templates for e-commerce, finance, and healthcare.
Web3 builders and retail investors alike should watch this space: as regulation tightens and AI agents move from novelty to necessity, architectures that blend cryptographic proof with real-world performance will define the competitive edge. The Mind Network and BytePlus alliance positions both companies and their customers to lead that shift.
About Mind Network
Mind Network pioneers quantum-resistant Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) infrastructure, powering a fully encrypted internet through secure data and AI computation. In collaboration with industry leaders, Mind Network is establishing HTTPZ — a Zero Trust Internet Protocol — to set new standards for trusted AI and encrypted on-chain data processing in Web3 and AI ecosystems.
Mind Network is backed by notable investors including Binance Labs, Cogitent, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, Chainlink, and has received two Ethereum Foundation Grants for its FHE research. Partnering with industry leaders like Zama, Mind Network is building a fully encrypted infrastructure, committed to realizing the vision of HTTPZ for the next generation internet.