A Decentralized Privateness-Targeted AI Community

Pavel Durov, co-founder of the messaging utility Telegram, has disclosed a brand new decentralized AI community to be constructed atop The Open Community (TON), an unbiased layer-1 blockchain related to Telegram.

Durov took the stage on the Blockchain Life 2025 discussion board in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to announce the Confidential Compute Open Community, or Cocoon, created to present customers entry to AI-driven options with out sacrificing information privateness to centralized AI suppliers.

In accordance with Durov, customers could make the processing energy from their graphics processing models (GPUs) obtainable to the community, in change for receiving Toncoin (TON), the native token of TON. Durov additionally touched on why decentralized AI is required for human freedom:

“Why is it vital to do one thing this fashion versus the centralized manner that’s generally extra handy? It is vital, my buddies, as a result of the world has been shifting in the direction of a bizarre route. For the final 20 years. We have been steadily shedding our digital freedoms.”

Decentralizing AI fashions has develop into a extensively mentioned subject amongst AI and blockchain builders resulting from privateness dangers and the potential for centralized service suppliers to censor or distort important info in actual time, with out customers realizing it.

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Centralized AI’s vulnerabilities illustrate blockchain’s potential

Centralizing synthetic intelligence poses dangers to person information privateness, together with the danger of knowledge breaches and hacks, in line with a number of crypto and Web3 business executives.

Storing huge portions of person information on centralized servers makes the information a beautiful goal for hackers, David Holtzman, chief technique officer of the Naoris decentralized safety protocol, advised Cointelegraph.