In the vast digital ocean, one word keeps making waves: decentralization. Long confined to crypto or libertarian circles, it now infiltrates every corner of the web: finance, social networks… and today artificial intelligence. It’s no longer just about disintermediating banks, but also computing centers. Thanks to TON and Cocoon, even your graphics card can become an AI farm. Pavel Durov, true to his style, makes it a new tool of emancipation.
In Brief
- •Cocoon allows you to rent out your GPU and earn Toncoin for confidential AI tasks.
- •TON becomes the blockchain alternative to cloud giants like Amazon or Microsoft in artificial intelligence.
- •Confidential computing protects all processed data without the GPU provider ever accessing it.
- •Telegram plans to integrate Cocoon into its MiniApps to democratize private AI within messaging apps.
Telegram Bets Everything on Cocoon: A Homemade, Connected, Paid AI
Cocoon is the idea of an Airbnb for GPUs. Do you have a graphics card? You can rent it to run AI models… and get paid in Toncoin. No need for cloud. Just TON, Telegram’s blockchain, orchestrating everything. Barely launched, Cocoon was already processing AI tasks, with crypto payments for the first providers.
The first AI requests from users are now being processed by Cocoon with 100% confidentiality. GPU owners are already earning TON.
The promise? To give power back to users. Control over their data. Access to revenues. Goodbye to the tech giants who centralize everything.
Confidential Computing, TON and AI: The Response to the Giants’ Monopoly
Cocoon is based on confidential computing: end-to-end encrypted processing, even for the one hosting the computation. Thanks to secure enclaves, no provider sees the processed data. Result: guaranteed privacy. A breakthrough against AWS or Azure.
On X, Viktor (@s0meone_u_know) writes:
At the heart of Cocoon is confidential computing, which ensures that all data user prompts, metadata & processing remains encrypted throughout the entire workflow. Even GPU providers can’t access or view the data they’re processing.
Cocoon already supports open-source AI models like DeepSeek or Qwen. Developers pay on demand, with no fixed fees. TON ensures fast and transparent transactions. Everything aligns for decentralized, private, and competitive computing.
Telegram Turns Its Users into Digital Miners
Cocoon is not just a tech showcase. Telegram is its first client, integrating its tools into MiniApps. The goal? To make private AI accessible within messaging apps. Guaranteed encryption. Familiar interface. And above all, no central server.
Pavel Durov said it black on white, Cocoon will bring control and confidentiality back where they belong: to the users.
TON is not advancing alone. It enters the arena facing Bittensor, Render Network, or Gensyn. But its major asset remains its base: more than a billion Telegram users. A community ready to mine AI… without knowing how to code.
Numbers and Facts That Make the Difference
- •Current Toncoin price: 1.5 dollars;
- •Cocoon is natively integrated into Telegram;
- •Guaranteed privacy: encrypted processing via secure enclaves;
- •Payment in crypto: TON paid for every AI task executed;
- •Current compatibility: DeepSeek, Qwen, and performant open-source models.
The future Pavel Durov is building leaves no place for censorship. In August 2024, France targeted him, threatening his project. He warned: the country is heading towards its fall if it persists on this path. With Cocoon, he charts his own course. A path where users are masters, not subjects. An AI without chains, and without a flag.