Verifiable, truly internet-scale distributed compute networks are necessary for the next stage of web3 development. A lot of discussion has gone into friendlier UX & scaling blockchain over the past year, culminating in account abstraction & ZK proofs. However, the next frontier for computing is really at the data layer – to build truly decentralised applications that can run at internet scale requires more efficient off-chain computation (that isn’t a centralised backend!). This opens up the door to so many opportunities unavailable in the web2 world including ML DAOs, decentralised AI, DeSci & applications that take advantage of both the features of blockchain and the the power of distributed compute (eg. Waterlily.ai)
