With the increasing bottlenecks of verifiable computing, Cysic launches the mainnet amid a broader transformation in infrastructure

In the race to scale blockchain and decentralize artificial intelligence, there remains one hurdle: computing. Whether due to the high cost of generating zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) or the opaque infrastructure behind AI inference, developers are increasingly suffering from bottlenecks caused by centralized and costly computing power that is often unavailable.

One of the protocols attempting to resolve this bottleneck is Cysic, a decentralized computing marketplace created to provide ZK proofs and AI inference as a service. It officially launched the alpha version of the mainnet today, with over 260,000 nodes already integrated and connected with Scroll, Succinct, and NetworkNoya systems. With this early success, the team describes this transformation as the emerging 'ComputeFi' era, where computing becomes a verifiable resource on-chain, as computing itself becomes a verifiable on-chain resource used.

This development comes at a time when there has been a significant shift in the blockchain and artificial intelligence sectors. The Ethereum shift towards native ZK architectures, the rise of modular stacks, and the proliferation of AI agents have contributed to the increased demand for decentralized computing. Projects like zkSync, which recently surged by 150% thanks to the infrastructure.