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thesis that everyday people can supply the storage, bandwidth, and compute that modern apps need, at the edge, via peerâtoâpeer networks.Â
In an exclusive conversation with BeInCrypto, AIOZ Network founder and CEO Erman Tjiputra explains the idea, why it matters for regular users, and how AIOZ Network aims to be the applicationâfirst DePIN stack for AI, streaming, and storage.
The project frames itself as communityâpowered internet infrastructure for the AI era, unifying distributed storage, AI compute, and media streaming under one network.
âCall it what it is,â Tjiputra tells BeInCrypto.
âNeighbors helping neighbors run the internet. If youâve got home WiâFi, a gaming PC with a GPU, or a spare hard drive, you can contribute resources and unlock the potential for token rewards. No single choke point, and services sit closer to users at the edge, so itâs faster and fairer.â
Tjiputraâs simplest example starts at home.
âYou install our lightweight app. Your home WiâFi becomes an onâramp. Your gaming PC can transcode video, run AI inference tasks, or pin files. Your SSD/HDD stores content shards. When someone nearby watches a stream or calls an AI model, the network routes it peerâtoâpeer from the closest contributors. You unlock potential token rewards. They get speed.â
AIOZ Network says the point isnât to mimic a tokenized data center; itâs to make participation useful on day one because users can immediately stream, store, or run AI, applicationâfirst by design.
AIOZ Network position itself as blockchainâagnostic (Cosmos/EVM), purposeâbuilt DePIN for AI + media + storage, and already tapping a global base of contributors that AIOZ Network counts in the hundreds of thousands of devices.
AIOZ Network is a unified stack, AI compute (AIOZ AI), storage (AIOZ Storage, S3âcompatible), streaming (AIOZ Stream), and IPFS pinning (AIOZ Pin), all powered by DePIN. Exposed as composable primitives, these services let Web3 apps tap edge, peerâtoâpeer infrastructure from day one.
For creators, Tjiputra says:
âKeep ownership and get transparent, onâchain payouts. Sell subscriptions, payâperâview, tips, or run adâsupported channels where revenue sharing is onâchain.â
AIOZ Streamâs model explicitly supports SVOD, TVOD, AVOD, and tipping, with an optional watchâtoâearn incentive that can credit viewers from ad auctions.
On the viewer side, he emphasizes a frictionless experience: âWatch with great quality and privacy, even without a wallet,â he adds, pointing to AIOZ Streamâs walletâfree onboarding for casual users while still preserving onâchain transparency behind the scenes.
And for builders, the pitch is zero gatekeepers: âOpen SDKs and APIs across storage, streaming, and AI, so devs can ship fast,â he says.Â
Devices contribute resources â contributors unlock the potential for token rewards â creators publish and get paid â viewers watch and can support directly â developers deploy AI tools and apps â all usage fuels the network.
In practice, anyone can onboard a home PC or NAS to supply storage, bandwidth, or GPU cycles. The network measures uptime, proximity, and quality, allocating work accordingly so contributors unlock the potential for token rewards tied to verified delivery and compute.Â
Those tokens originate from real usage: SVOD/TVOD, AVOD with onâchain splits, tips, and developer spend for inference and datasets. As activity grows, more devices join, latency drops, and costs fall, pulling in more creators and apps and compounding the loop.
âItâs one network where AI, streaming, and storage reinforce each other. Every viewer session, every model call, and every file readâwrite strengthens the DePIN layer underneath,â Tjiputra says.
In a field where many DePIN projects look like âtokenized data centers,â AIOZ Network insists itâs peopleâpowered and applicationâfirst.
âWe built the apps that make participating useful on day one,â Tjiputra says. âCreators can go live, viewers can click play, and builders can deploy models, all on a peerâtoâpeer edge that users themselves provide.â
AIOZâs Stream Vision Paper describes a decentralized content delivery stack that routes video/audio through contributors and pays everyone, creators, contributors, and even viewers (when enabled), via the same token rails, including ad auctions (AVOD), subscriptions (SVOD), and transactional (TVOD). UX principles emphasize speed and walletâfree onboarding for mainstream users.
Tjiputraâs longâterm vision is blunt:
âPut a miniâCDN in every home. If millions of everyday devices quietly power the internet, it becomes faster, cheaper, and more resilient for everyone,â he says. AIOZ Network wants to provide the peopleâcloud that serves media, AI, and storage from the edge, owned by users and interoperable across chains people already use.
âPower the next ChatGPT from your home, as a contributor and a consumer,â Tjiputra adds. âIf youâve got a GPU, inference tasks can run on your box. You are rewarded via DePIN; a neighbor calls the model with subâsecond latency because itâs edgeâserved, not halfway across the world.âÂ
AIOZ AI is described as a distributed compute and marketplace layer where models/datasets can be deployed, licensed, and monetized onâchain, bridging AI workloads with DePIN incentives.
AIOZ Network frames participation as more than perks for passive viewersâitâs a path from watchâtoâearn toward a true buildâtoâearn economy. âWatchâtoâearn is a tactic.
The bigger step is buildâtoâearn,â Tjiputra says.
âHost a DePIN app, moderate a channel, transcode a stream, pin content, run model inference, contribute useful work and unlock the potential for token rewards. Thatâs the broader participation economy weâre after.â
Asked for the endgame, Tjiputra returns to first principles:
âItâs Internet infrastructure for Web3, a mainstream peopleâcloud for media, AI, and storage. Peerâtoâpeer at the edge; open, verifiable, and owned by the users who power it.â
AIOZ Network enables a meritâbased contribution model across a multiâchain stack, aiming to make AI compute, storage, and streaming communityâpowered and interoperable.
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