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io.net was created with the vision of creating a globally accessible, decentralized cloud computing network with the goal of providing affordable, flexible, and permissionless access to compute capacity for builders everywhere. We believe that compute is the most important resource of our generation - it is this generation’s “digital oil”, powering a technological industrial revolution.
If compute is “digital oil”, it needs a petro-dollar to be a transaction and settlement standard for the commodity that powers the most innovative industries of today from artificial intelligence to autonomous vehicles.
io.net is creating that standard, $IO, to be the currency of compute, powering an ecosystem of products and services that enable access to compute as a resource and as an asset.
We're establishing an ecosystem built on top of compute as a currency. This ecosystem provides a suite of tools and services for building, training, and deploying machine learning models - all on chain, powered by Aptos and Solana.
This enables users to deploy their models for real-time inference, with features like batch inference and efficient training and fine-tuning of machine learning models. To put it simply, $IO represents the currency of computing power. Just as the US Dollar is the standard for oil transactions, $IO unlocks computing resources on a global scale.
$IO seeks to become the universal compute exchange medium for users and enterprises worldwide.
Today compute is a scarce resource relative to the growth in demand. Driven by extraordinary growth in industries like artificial intelligence and machine learning, the demand for compute has created enormous value accrual for traditional cloud providers and GPU companies but has also created limited access for startups, independent builders, and innovators in developing markets.
To solve this, io.net is building IOG Network, a decentralized “Internet of GPUs” that will be powered by millions of distributed nodes operated by everyone from consumers to crypto miners to independent enterprise grade data centers. This network will become progressively decentralized and fully governed by the users and operators in the network while enabling democratized, permissionless access to on-demand AI compute for builders around the globe.
io.net - Development company that maintains the IOG Network and builds products and services on top of the network, such as IO Cloud, IO Worker, IO Models, and IO ID.
IOG Network - Also referred to as the Internet of GPUs, or “IOG”, IOG Network is a decentralized physical infrastructure network of independently operated, geo-distributed hardware nodes that provide permissionless access to on demand compute.
IOG Framework - Open source, developer friendly SDK that enables builders to deploy products and services on top of the Internet of GPUs.
IO Cloud - Cloud platform that allows developers to virtualize infinitely scalable and configurable clusters on demand using the compute capacity in the IOG Network.
IO ID - Universal identity management for the IO Ecosystem
IO is the native Coin of the IOG Network.