Let me tell you a story of a start up founder Mia.
Mia was a small AI startup founder who needed zero-knowledge proofs to verify AI training results onchain. Normally, that meant hours of compute and cloud bills that made her eyes water.
One morning, she read about Boundless — a decentralized marketplace for verifiable compute. “So I can just post a proof request and let provers compete to do the job?” she thought.
She uploaded her ZK job to the Boundless Marketplace — a proof that her AI model had achieved its training benchmarks. The auction began: her bid price climbed automatically until Charlie, a prover running GPUs in his basement, locked her request. He staked tokens as a guarantee. If he missed the deadline, his stake would be slashed and another prover could take over
Charlie got to work, powered by Boundless’s Proof of Verifiable Work, a system that cryptographically measured and verified how much computation he performed. When he finished, his proof was published, Maya’s contract was settled onchain, and both sides got paid instantly.
Weeks later, Maya’s company scaled. She didn’t even think about servers anymore — she just wrote code and let Boundless handle the proving. Compute had become fluid, trustless, and open.
And somewhere, a new prover named Bob spun up his gaming rig, whispering, “Time to mine some truth.”