AI Network is a global backend infrastructure that transforms millions of open source projects into live services (a.k.a. Open Resource). This document outlines event-driven blockchain platform that aims to initiate innovation in the decentralized application economy, particularly for AI programs
AI Network was highly motivated by the idea behind Ethereum’s Turing completeness and world computer. A network in which every node verifies code execution can provide unprecedented security and immutability in the permissionless network. However, despite the considerable improvement over a few years, the performance of the smart contract still remains inadequate in terms of being capable of handling operations for all projected global applications. By design, scalability of Ethereum is limited by its own strength which can be summarized as statefulness, trustlessness, and serialized operation. When designing modern serverless architecture, applications achieve high scalability through statelessness, permission, and concurrent operations. By decoupling computation from blockchain, AI Network can perform large scale operations in a serverless architecture. At the same time, AI Network blockchain is designed as a lightweight ledger that can process millions of transactions per second and safely record communication between clients and workers. The detailed differences between AI Network, blockchains, and serverless architectures are described in the following diagram.
