
Silicon Network is building the world's largest decentralized GPU network, connecting professional datacenters, community compute power, and AI companies to deliver enterprise-grade computing at a significantly lower cost than traditional cloud providers. The platform tokenizes GPU ownership through NFTs on a dual-blockchain architecture (Base and Chia), creating a marketplace for these assets and a payment protocol for GPU rentals. This model aims to democratize access to AI infrastructure, reduce costs, increase availability, and provide asset liquidity. Providers manage the hardware, while users rent compute power for AI workloads like model training, fine-tuning, and inference. The native token, $SIL, serves as a payment mechanism, reward distribution, and governance tool.

Silicon Network is building the world's largest decentralized GPU network, connecting professional datacenters, community compute power, and AI companies to deliver enterprise-grade computing at a significantly lower cost than traditional cloud providers. The platform tokenizes GPU ownership through NFTs on a dual-blockchain architecture (Base and Chia), creating a marketplace for these assets and a payment protocol for GPU rentals. This model aims to democratize access to AI infrastructure, reduce costs, increase availability, and provide asset liquidity. Providers manage the hardware, while users rent compute power for AI workloads like model training, fine-tuning, and inference. The native token, $SIL, serves as a payment mechanism, reward distribution, and governance tool.
What they do: Operate Silicon Network, a blockchain-enabled decentralized GPU marketplace that tokenizes physical GPUs as NFTs for rental to AI workloads
Launch & seed: Public launch announced September 24, 2024 with a seed round led by Chia Network
Target customers: Datacenter operators, individual GPU owners, and AI developers
Planned roadmap: Testnet targeted Q1 2025 and mainnet targeted Q2 2025
High-cost, centralized access to GPU compute for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Infrastructure · Blockchain · AI
Seed round led by Chia Network; some sources report total funding amount of $5,000,000
“Chia Network led the seed round”