The computing power market in 2025 is caught in a 'structural contradiction': on one side, the demand for intelligent computing driven by generative AI is doubling every 5 months, with the total scale of national intelligent computing exceeding 780,000 Pfops, and the proof requests for privacy computing scenarios like zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are growing exponentially; on the other side, the supply of computing power is scattered across isolated chain networks and data centers, where traditional centralized platforms cannot break through cross-chain barriers and struggle to balance computing efficiency with privacy and security. The solution from Boundless lies in its native deployment within the Market contracts of major mainstream public chains—this permissionless distributed clearing hub is accurately matching the proof demands from the application side with the computing power supply from the node side, bridging the 'last mile' of computing power flow and redefining the allocation rules for computing resources in the Web3 era.
One, an inevitable era: Why do we need a cross-chain 'computing power clearing center'?
The current fragmentation of computing power and proof markets essentially reflects a sharp contradiction between 'demand cross-chain' and 'supply islandization.' Data from the 2025 Digital Expo indicates that the proof demands of enterprise-level applications have covered diverse scenarios such as DeFi compliance audits, AI model training privacy verification, and Web3 identity verification, with 60% of demands requiring cross-chain data collaboration. However, the reality is:
Fragmentation of on-chain computing power: Prover nodes on Ethereum focus on smart contract verification, while computing resources on Solana emphasize high-frequency trading processing. The computing power of different chains cannot be scheduled across domains, and applications that require multi-chain proof need to connect to multiple platforms, leading to skyrocketing costs.
Imbalance between privacy and efficiency: Most proof services either rely on centralized nodes, posing data leakage risks, or use traditional ZKP algorithms, leading to performance losses that result in proof times exceeding 10 minutes, far from meeting the real-time demands of AI inference.
Inefficient supply and demand matching: The sudden proof demand from the application side (such as bulk asset audits for a certain DeFi protocol) cannot be efficiently matched with the idle computing power on the node side (like resources in intelligent computing centers that are idle at night), resulting in a waste rate of computing resources as high as 35%.
The emergence of Boundless Market precisely targets this pain point. By deploying native contracts on mainstream public chains like Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, etc., it constructs a cross-chain interoperable computing clearing network, allowing 'any proof demand on any chain' to find 'the most suitable computing power supply,' fundamentally solving the supply-demand mismatch problem.
Two, mechanism deconstruction: How does the permissionless clearing hub operate?
The core logic of Boundless Market is to transform 'proof requests' and 'computing power supply' into on-chain assets that can be automatically matched, achieving efficient clearing through three core mechanisms, each step aligning with the technological needs of intelligent computing and privacy computing in 2025.
(One) Cross-chain contract matrix: Breaking the barriers of computing power flow across chains.
Boundless Market has not built a new public chain but adopts a 'native deployment + cross-chain bridging' strategy, creating functionally consistent Market contracts on each mainstream public chain.
Standardization of contracts: All Market contracts on public chains follow a unified proof request format (including core parameters such as computational complexity, privacy level, completion time limit, etc.) and computing power supply interfaces (supporting various types of computing power nodes such as GPU, ASIC, etc.), ensuring that cross-chain demands can be directly parsed.
Trustless cross-chain: Achieving full-process on-chain verification of 'demand initiation - computing power matching - result return' through a zero-knowledge proof-based cross-chain verification module, without relying on third-party relays, thus solving the risk of cross-chain data tampering.
Dynamic adaptability: The latest upgraded contract version V2, released in October, now supports rapid adaptation to emerging public chains like Abstract Chain, responding to the trend of intelligent computing projects deploying across multiple chains.
This design allows application parties to not worry about the computing power distribution of the target public chain; they only need to submit requests through any chain's Market contract, and the system can automatically retrieve the optimal computing resources from the entire network, thoroughly breaking the 'on-chain computing power island.'
(Two) Supply-demand matching engine: Achieving precise pricing and scheduling of computing power through algorithms.
As a permissionless clearing core, Boundless Market's matching engine discards the traditional centralized platform's 'manual dispatch' model and adopts a 'multi-dimensional bidding + intelligent sorting' algorithm, ensuring efficiency and fairness.
Precise profiling from the demand side: Proof requests submitted by applications are automatically decomposed into quantifiable indicators—for example, a certain AI company's demand for privacy proof in model training will be marked with parameters such as 'computational complexity (100GFLOPS), privacy level (ZKP-STARK standard), completion time limit (15 minutes)', generating a unique 'proof task certificate.'
Dynamic bidding from the supply side: Boundless prover nodes obtain bidding qualifications by staking platform tokens and can submit quotes and completion time limits based on their own computing power types (such as dedicated ASIC chips adapted for ZKP computation), idle rates, and historical performance ratings.
Intelligent matching and scheduling: The engine sorts priorities based on 'optimal price → efficiency priority → credibility weighting,' completing the matching and generating smart contracts within 1 second: nodes complete calculations and generate proofs as agreed, and the contract automatically releases rewards; if the standards are not met, it triggers the mechanism for deducting staked tokens.
Taking the cross-chain asset audit demand of a certain DeFi protocol on October 9 as an example: The application submits a request via the Solana chain contract, and the engine matches idle ZKP-specific nodes on Ethereum within 0.8 seconds, completing the privacy proof for 1000 assets in just 8 minutes, reducing costs by 40% compared to traditional platforms.
(Three) Computing power pooling management: Activating the ecological value of decentralized computing power.
The underlying logic of Boundless Market is to transform globally distributed computing resources into 'dispatchable, measurable, and monetizable' public infrastructure, which aligns closely with the industry trend of a significant increase in 'small and medium-sized computing centers' by 2025.
No threshold for node access: Idle GPUs from individual developers and redundant computing power from small and medium-sized data centers can all connect to the prover node network through simple configurations, earning rewards based on actual contributions, allowing 'fragmented computing power' to generate commercial value.
Prioritizing green computing power: The engine has a built-in 'energy efficiency weighting' that gives a 15% matching priority to nodes using liquid cooling technology and powered by green electricity, responding to the sustainable development requirements of data centers under the 'dual carbon' context.
Elastic expansion of computing power: When a certain type of proof demand surges (such as bulk minting verification for an NFT platform), the system can automatically activate a backup node pool to achieve second-level expansion of computing power through cross-chain scheduling, avoiding 'demand congestion.'
This pooling management model not only enhances the overall utilization of computing power but also enables prover nodes to become 'participants in distributed infrastructure' in the era of intelligent computing, building a computing ecology where 'everyone can supply and benefit.'
Three, value extension: Not just matching, but also the infrastructure of Web3 intelligent computing.
The significance of Boundless Market goes far beyond being a 'matching tool for computing power and proof.' It is becoming the core infrastructure supporting the Web3 intelligent computing ecosystem, deeply resonating with the industry's development trends for 2025.
In the field of privacy computing, it provides computing power support for the large-scale application of technologies like ZKP—compared to single-point products from companies like SUNLUNE, Boundless lowers the hardware threshold for ZKP computation through a distributed node network, enabling small and medium applications to afford high-level privacy proof services; in the field of AI and Web3 integration, it resolves the 'privacy - efficiency' contradiction in AI model training: model data does not need to be uploaded to centralized servers, but can simply submit proof requests through Market contracts, and the prover nodes complete the privacy computation and return the results, ensuring data security while improving training efficiency; in the field of green computing power, its mechanism prioritizing the matching of green electricity nodes is promoting the industry's balanced development in 'reliability, security, economy, and sustainability.'
As the demand for intelligent computing power is about to experience a surge of 10.5GW, Boundless Market provides an answer to 'how to efficiently allocate computing power resources' through cross-chain contracts and a permissionless clearing mechanism. It proves that the future of Web3 does not lie in building closed technological systems, but in connecting decentralized value elements (computing power, data, demand) into a network through decentralized tools. From this perspective, Boundless Market is not just a clearing platform but also the key to unlocking the 'Boundless Era of Intelligent Computing'—allowing every unit of computing power to find its purpose, and ensuring that every proof demand can be efficiently responded to, which is the ultimate annotation of its name 'Boundless.'
