📩Introduction

The importance of a regulatory framework in blockchain.

The landscape of public infrastructure is rapidly evolving, offering innovative solutions across various sectors. These infrastructures aim to decentralize traditional services such as marketplace, storage, cloud computing, internet bandwidth and sometimes even complex computing tasks such as GPU rendering, and more. However, the current DPI space is highly fragmented, with each use case operating in isolated environment. This fragmentation, though reflecting the diversity of applications, presents several critical challenges that hinder the full potential of DPIs.

Different sectors—such as finance, supply chain, and gaming—have their own siloed solutions, while digital public services like GPU rendering, permissionless supercloud networks, internet bandwidth, and storage infrastructures each run on separate infrastructures and networks. This results in divided participants and infrastructure, significantly reducing the overall value proposition for users and stakeholders. Moreover, the transition from traditional centralized providers to decentralized alternatives is difficult, as centralized services often offer more cost-effective solutions. The lack of integration among these fragmented environments means that users and service providers miss out on the potential benefits of network interoperability, making it harder to justify switching.

Additionally, entering the DPI space as a provider is fraught with complexities. Each purpose built DPI often requires highly customized setups. Unlike conventional blockchain ecosystems where a participant can build applications using smart contracts, DPIs do not offer the simplicity of spinning up decentralized services by just writing a smart contract. This high barrier to entry, coupled with the specialized nature of hardware infrastructures, further discourages new participants from providing services or becoming part of any public infrastructure.