Vitalik Buterin recently declared 2026 the year to “take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.”

But... A startup training a specialised model could burn through more compute in a week than a high-end laptop provides in a year.

So how do we protect sovereignty while ensuring developers have the resources they need to bring their projects to life?

@ionet CEO @Gaurav_ionet has an answer. Decentralised compute networks can do what crypto has always promised: distributed systems that can match and exceed centralised alternatives.