One thing people often miss: not all compute is equal!

We treat GPUs and FLOPs like they’re interchangeable units, but they’re not. The context: who owns the infra, who controls it, who can shut it off, matters more than we admit.

Your model might run just fine on AWS or on some decentralized network. Output looks the same. But the trust layer is entirely different.

Decentralized compute offers what hyperscalers can’t: censorship resistance, no central point of failure or kill-switch, and real user control over data and execution.

That sovereignty should come with a premium. Today, it doesn’t. Most devs still optimize for cost.

But that will shift. slowly, then structurally. As pressure builds and workloads demand stronger guarantees, control becomes non-negotiable.

And the repricing follows.