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Decentralized Distributed AI Computing

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Power to the People

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Power to the People

Empower people with the most intelligent, efficient, secure, accessible and scalable computing power. Global Computing Power Locally Served.

Power to the People

Empower people with the most intelligent, efficient, secure, accessible and scalable computing power. Global computing power locally served.

Security by Design

Inherently secure, transparent and private. Trust built on blockchain technology.

Intelligent Use of Resources

Incentive based model to reduce waste and use computing resources for beneficial human endeavours. Perform beneficial work.

Solving Real Problems

Backed by the immense world demands for AI, compute, storage and network resources. Value by design.

The world needs a way to use its energy and resources to meet the demands of our ever increasing computing needs.

Energy and resources should be used to do beneficial work that improves our lives.

Massive data centers and even worse crypto mining is very energy intensive and insufficient for future demands. In the case of crypto currency most mining does not produce any beneficial work but consumes vast amounts of energy. They are unsustainable and parasitical to our economic and ecological ecosystem.

Massive companies and governments are trying to control the internet and our computing power. By creating an incentive to repurpose resources such as crypto miners or massive data centers to decentralized computing, file storage or AI deep learning, this network literally gives power back to the people. It delivers control of the internet and computing back to the mobile devices in peoples hands, computers, servers, clouds, and any other computing devices they wish to volunteer or commit their excess or dedicated resources to.

→ Today this design is realized as dait.io, the first Proof of Intelligence chain.

Evolution of the Cloud to the Fog

Traditional centralized computing models and the developing decentralized system will be completely replaced by an intelligent distributed (beyond decentralized) peer to peer cloud / fog network with each node aware of other nodes which are organized in localities and optimally do work.

A flexible market place settles demand and price as required to perform real beneficial work such as deep learning, hosting, file storage and computing at magnitudes greater efficiency and cost than currently possible.

→ This became x/compute_market in DAIT (reverse Dutch auction with TEE-attested receipts and per-block lease debits). See the chain stack →

Security

Increasing dependence on the internet and digital world require vast improvements in our online security. Intelligent use of AI and blockchain technology can meet our growing security needs now and in the future.

Security by design and nature is embedded in every layer of technology via blockchain technology. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without collusion of the network majority. A rewards and penalty ethical node layer fosters a self healing healthy ecosystem.

→ DAIT extends this to hardware-rooted intelligence verification (multi-vendor TEE attestation) and post-quantum signing from genesis-day. See the standards matrix →

The world needs more AI and computing resources

Massive resources are wasted with idle systems and crypto mining.

Providing an incentive pathway to repurpose the current massive GPU farming and other available compute resources with rewards based AI computing and hackproof decentralized distributed blockchain storage delivers an elegant solution to future computing, storage and AI demands today as well as takes a load off our energy systems.

→ Realized as the Proof of Intelligence consensus class. Deep dive on dait.foundation →

How do we do it?

A decentralized autonomous platform for networking and computing services that offers a pathway and incentive for participants to ethically deliver powerful, safe and efficient computing and network resources.

Empower people / Decentralize

Power to the people. By providing a pathway and incentive for participants to ethically deliver powerful and efficient computing and network resources where and when they are required we are able to repurpose the worlds vast unused and misused resources to perform beneficial work. This creates a positive self perpetuating cycle that decentralizes control and empowers people.

Meet future AI and computing demands

Peer based AI computing. A way to meet the future AI and computing demands in the most efficient, powerful and ecological way. A distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized structure allows individual nodes of the network to do processing. Blockchain technology, fog computing and a distributed file system / Interplanetary File System (IPFS) allow the delivery of powerful and efficient computing where and when it is required.

Beyond security by design

Security baked in. Based on blockchain technology that naturally encourages innovation, security and ethical participants via a distributed and encrypted ledger shared across all of a network's users and devices, coupled with an autonomous AI based rewards system that encourages ethical behavior, it creates a network of authentication that is verifiable and not easily hacked, gamed or circumvented.

Use resources for beneficial reasons

Save the world. Solve real problems. Repurposing massive mining and idle computing power towards deep learning, AI and edgeless computing is a solution to our future Internet of Things (IoT) and serverless edge computing needs. Future computing power and efficiency will be available where and when it is needed, saving massive amounts of energy resulting in magnitudes of improvement, all while aligning the interests of everyone in the ecosystem in a positive fashion.

2018 vision → 2026 realization

The 2018 site described what it could not yet build. The substrate caught up. Each row pairs a verbatim 2018 line with the DAIT module that realizes it today.

"a flexible market place settles demand and price as required to perform real beneficial work such as deep learning, hosting, file storage and computing at magnitudes greater efficiency and cost than currently possible"

x/compute_market Reverse-Dutch auction with TEE-attested receipts and per-block lease debits. Five cooperating sub-systems: deployment, market, provider, audit, escrow. Testnet 2026-06-02

"an autonomous AI based rewards system that encourages ethical behavior"

x/pouw + WorkloadWeights Per-workload credit weighting on chain. Defaults: inference 1.0, finetune 0.9, tensor 0.7, zk_inference 1.5. Governance-tunable, hard cap 10x. Live: commit 3f22b9d

"hackproof decentralized distributed blockchain storage"

x/datalake Reed-Solomon (10+4) erasure coding, hardware-attested storage providers, continuous proof-of-replication challenges signed inside enclaves, SLA-graded hot/warm/cold tiers. Live: scaffold 4eb5451

"a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized structure, allows individual nodes of the network to do processing"

x/state_channel + x/compute_market Off-chain peer-to-peer inference, turn-taking forced-move dispute protocol, on-chain settlement in a single transaction. The chain stays out of the hot path. Testnet 2026-06-02

"PeerAI literally gives power back to the people. Delivers control of the internet and computing back to the mobile devices in peoples hands, computers, servers, clouds"

x/agent + Dilithium-from-genesis AI agents as first-class economic accounts. Operator and hot-key separation, RecoveryGuard multisig, recursive child agents (depth 3), rolling-24h spend policy. Post-quantum signing required at mainnet. Live: commit 35c8b71

"Repurpose the current massive GPU farming and other available compute resources with rewards based AI computing"

x/pouw consensus path Validator block rewards weighted by PoUW credits earned in the prior epoch. The chain pays operators for hardware-attested AI inference, not hash collisions. Live

"a rewards and penalty ethical node layer fosters a self healing healthy ecosystem"

x/staking_tiers Six-tier model (User / Heavy / Node / Supernode / Validator / Oracle) with tier-aware slashing rates and per-tier rights. The harder the commitment, the higher the slash penalty. Live

"blockchain technology that naturally encourages innovation, security and ethical participants via a distributed and encrypted ledger ... a network of authentication that is verifiable and not easily hacked, gamed or circumvented"

x/tee_attest + ABCI++ vote-extension Multi-vendor confidential-compute attestation (NVIDIA CC, Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP). Vote-extension force-include guarantees attestations cannot be censored by a 2/3+ proposer coalition. Live

"Internet of Things (IOT) and serverless edge computing"

Phase 4 ecosystem track client-template + spurvbox per-tenant containers extend the chain naturally to edge nodes and IoT operators as the operator class scales beyond GPU data centers. Roadmap

"Massive resources are wasted with idle systems, and crypto mining ... energy intensive and insufficient for future demands"

Compute-indexed elastic emission More useful work earned this epoch yields more mint next epoch. Distribution split: 60% PoUW credit holders / 30% validators / 6% treasury / 3% insurance / 1% burn. Supply contracts when fees burn faster than emission. Live

Each row's "Live" tag becomes a forcing function: when something ships, the tag flips. Verifiable on the chain repository at forge.dait.io and in the Livepaper.

News

Relative happenings Preserved 2018

2018: The Year Blockchain, AI and IoT Converge

Jalak Jobanputra · CoinDesk · Jan 12, 2018

Founder and managing partner of Future\Perfect Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in decentralization and digital assets, on why 2018 will be the year these three technologies meet.

The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what's the deal?

VentureBeat · Jan 2018

Why a decentralized intelligence may affect our future. AI and blockchain are two technologies set to fundamentally change how we interact with the world.

Edge Computing: What it is and how it's a game-changer

Virginia Backaitis · CMSWire · Jan 25, 2018

If cloud computing has been at the top of CIO minds for the past decade, edge computing is what the next decade will deliver.

Convergence of AI and Blockchain

The Paradigm Shift

Blockchain & AI

The future of computing.

The Buzz

What people have to say.

"Blockchain is a remarkable achievement and has enormous value."
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

"Blockchain-enabled, decentralized networks encourage the creation of available data, essentially because individual data silos are replaced by a shared and accurate ledger, which can be leveraged to train better AI models."
Trent McConaghy, BigchainDB / Ocean Protocol

"Considering blockchain and deep learning together suggests the emergence of a new class of global network computing system. These systems are self-operating computation graphs that make probabilistic guesses about reality states of the world."
Melanie Swan, Blockchain & AI

Continued at DAIT

The substrate has caught up. The vision is now a chain.

dait.io

The first Proof of Intelligence chain. Hero, vision, modules, tokenomics.

dait.io →

Livepaper

The technical document. Architecture, consensus, modules, threat model. Continuously updated.

livepaper →

daitchain.io

The chain itself. Module by axis, repos, devnet milestones.

daitchain.io →

dait.foundation

Foundation, governance, standards matrix, the canonical Proof of Intelligence explainer.

dait.foundation →

2018 contact · archived

Contact

The 2018 contact channels (email, phone) are no longer active.

This site is a preservation of the 2018 vision. The work continues at DAIT. To reach the team, get a partnership conversation started, or ask about validators / operators / agents / audit, please use the active DAIT contact form.

Open the DAIT contact form → Visit dait.io