Decentralized storage is one of the key pillars of DePIN infrastructure – various applications of AI, including vertical LLMs and AI generated content all require storage scaling in tandem with AI compute. This is why we’re glad to invite @CrustNetwork into the Phoenix AI Ecosystem as the first #DePIN storage-focused partner.

Crust Network is a cross-chain storage solution that supports various IPFS, PoS, and PoW protocols. The goal of the partnership will be twofold:

1) Providing Crust access to idle compute resources in the Phoenix SkyNet AI Node Network and also SkyNet Elastic Compute for its users and ecosystem. This will expand the Crust’s DePIN resources to AI compute nodes in addition to storage nodes.

2) Crust will be integrated into SkyNet as an alternative storage to Filecoin for AI models, training datasets, and PhoenixLLM vector search databases.

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