Oasis is a privacy-focused blockchain platform designed to enhance security and scalability while ensuring data privacy and confidentiality. Originating from the efforts of forward-thinking technologists who priorotise privacy-preserving smart contracts, Oasis leverages a unique, modular architecture comprising a consensus layer and a ParaTime layer. This distinction enables higher throughput and diverse use cases while sharding computations to keep data secure. Oasis’s consensus layer is a decentralised set of validators utilizing a PoS mechanism, allowing for efficient validation, while the ParaTime layer supports parallel transaction processing. Key characteristics include confidentiality-preserving features for smart contracts via Oasis's privacy-centric architecture, empowering developers and users to create applications that can handle sensitive data securely.