lowkey been thinking about $CC a lot since that demo dropped
surface pitch is "share your idle GPU for AI inference."
but https://t.co/EGBqONe2Mh ran that exact playbook in 2024 and it blew up, claimed 327k registered GPUs, only 6 700 were actually verified active on any given day. this space has a trust hangover from that
the signed receipts thing crowcompute's doing fixes exactly that problem imo. every request produces proof nobody can edit. that's the actual moat, not the gpu count
also nobody's mentioning this: suppliers get paid in USDC, not a native token.
https://t.co/EGBqONe2Mh paid in IO and suppliers kept dumping it, that's a big reason IO is down 98% from ATH. USDC means suppliers actually keep what they earn
distribution angle is slept on too fr. built on robinhood chain, tens of millions of users with idle gaming rigs already. way easier bootstrap than any crypto-native depin project's had
and the timing lines up. robinhood opened trading to AI agents this same week. agents buying their own compute need cryptographic proof it wasn't tampered with, not vibes. that's exactly what this gives them
still early, still unproven at scale, but deadass this is the first depin compute pitch that actually fixes last cycle's failure mode instead of repeating it