I’ve been spending time lately looking at how the decentralized infrastructure landscape is maturing, and a really interesting vertical is starting to form between projects like GEODNET ($GEOD), StorX Network ($SRX ), @Phala Network ($PHA ), and Fluence ($FLT).
What’s striking is that these aren't competitors, they are actually complementary layers of a new, decentralized cloud.
🧱 What I’m Noticing: A Functional Stack
When you look closely, you see a three-layer cake for the next generation of applications:
The Data & Storage Base ($GEOD & $SRX): GEODNET provides high-precision location data from physical hardware, while StorX handles decentralized object storage. This is the "raw material" layer—where the bits come from and where they live.
The Specialized Brain ($PHA): Phala focuses on privacy-preserving, secure compute, which is perfect for sensitive AI logic and TEE-based (Trusted Execution Environment) workloads.
The Programmable Glue ($FLT): This is where Fluence stands out. It’s the serverless layer. It doesn't just sell raw hardware; it provides a platform to orchestrate services across these different networks.
💡 Why Fluence is the "Cloudless" Orchestrator
Fluence fits into the DePIN and AI infra narrative as the missing coordination layer. While other projects focus on the "what" (location data, storage, privacy), Fluence focuses on the "how", how a developer actually builds an app that ties it all together.
Serverless over Bare Metal: Instead of managing a single node, developers use Fluence to deploy functions that can pull data from GEODNET and store results on StorX, all without ever touching a centralized server.
The AI Connection: For decentralized AI, Fluence acts as the service mesh where AI agents can live and communicate, pulling together processed data from Phala into a usable, always-on API.
🎯 Connecting to the Mission: No More Monopolies
Fluence's core mission is to enable an open, cloudless alternative to centralized monopolies.
In the old world, you were locked into AWS or Google Cloud. In this new DePIN stack, Fluence allows you to swap providers and compose services across different specialized networks without vendor lock-in. It turns compute into a neutral, verifiable resource.
Summary: We are moving away from siloed infrastructure tokens toward a coherent, decentralized cloud stack. GEODNET and StorX provide the data/storage, Phala provides the secure logic, and Fluence provides the serverless environment that makes it all composable and developer-friendly.
This is how we actually build a Cloudless future. 🚀
