Durov’s AI Offensive! 🚀 Cocoon Decentralized AI Network is Live on TON! Rent Your GPU, Earn Toncoin, and Fight Centralized AI Giants!
The Cocoon decentralized AI network, a privacy-preserving distributed computing platform, officially went live this Sunday. The network is built on The Open Network (TON), the Layer-1 blockchain closely associated with the Telegram messaging application, and its launch is publicly endorsed by Pavel Durov, the co-founder of Telegram, who views Cocoon as the definitive answer to the centralized nature of current AI providers.
Cocoon functions by allowing owners of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to rent out their excess computing power to the network. In return for processing user queries and requests, GPU providers are compensated with Toncoin (TON), the native cryptocurrency of the TON blockchain. Durov confirmed that the decentralized AI network has successfully processed its first user requests, and GPU owners are already actively profiting from renting their hardware.
Challenging Centralized Giants: Pavel Durov explicitly articulated the platform's rationale, stating, "Centralized compute providers such as Amazon and Microsoft act as expensive intermediaries that drive up prices and reduce privacy. Cocoon solves both the economic and confidentiality issues associated with legacy AI compute providers." Durov initially announced Cocoon's release at the Blockchain Life 2025 conference in Dubai, framing it as a solution responding directly to user demand for an AI platform that secures their privacy and data from large, data-hungry centralized entities.
The launch aligns with the long-standing concerns voiced by privacy advocates and the Cypherpunk community regarding the negative societal effects of centralized AI systems. These systems grant governments and corporations enormous leverage over individuals, potentially compromising user privacy, weakening cybersecurity, and leading to social conditioning by powerful organized actors. David Holtzman, Chief Strategy Officer for the Naoris decentralized security protocol, emphasized that these threats can be mitigated through the application of blockchain technology to AI, which enables transparent verification of data sources, ensures tamper-proof records, and facilitates trustless communication between distributed computing nodes.
This development reinforces the growing conviction that ethical AI must operate on permissionless blockchain networks to guarantee transparency and data integrity. This sentiment is backed by market research; a poll conducted by the Digital Currency Group (DCG) indicated that 77% of respondents surveyed believe that decentralized AI systems will ultimately provide greater societal benefits than their centralized counterparts, positioning Cocoon and TON at the forefront of this technological and ethical shift.
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