Zhixiong Pan
Zhixiong Pan|May 20, 2025 04:34
Decentralized cloud services should be considered a long-standing major issue in the entire crypto world. From Filecoin's idea of "putting idle hard drives on chain" in 2017, which sparked a wave of decentralized storage, to Akash's on chain bidding model in 2021, which reduced GPU costs to half of traditional cloud, to Arweave's Permaweb vision of "eternal", decentralized infrastructure (DePIN) has been singing high, but it has never truly shaken the enterprise landscape of centralized giants such as AWS. And recently, I have noticed that the Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) @ ICNChina is trying to solve this problem, and I have found that their biggest feature is actually SLA. Of course, there are significant differences in the positioning between ICN and well-known historical projects. The following are still relatively vertical projects, such as: -Filecoin or Arweave focus more on storage and gradually expand their computing power - http://io.net More focused on GPU -DFINITY is similar to ICN in some aspects, focusing on "moving servers onto the chain" However, ICN does not stop there. It's more like letting 'blockchain supervise servers' - developers still use regular Linux servers, but hand over' who settles, who supervises SLA 'to on chain contracts. Therefore, the biggest advantage of ICN over other decentralized networks is that it is the easiest to migrate existing enterprise workloads. >For enterprises, SLA (Service Level Agreement) is the key to decision-making, and only by quantifying potential losses and additional SLA costs can rational choices be made. Breaking down their entire network into several parts: -Hardware Providers (HPs): Contribute physical servers (ScalerNodes) and pledge ICNTs to earn rent and rewards. -HyperNodes: Independently verify nodes, perform encryption challenges on ScalerNodes on a regular basis, and issue performance/availability reports. They are "decentralized quality inspectors". -Builders: Reserve ScalerNode capacity on the console and deploy upper layer applications and services (Web2&Web3). -Satellite Network: Save off chain challenge data to ensure traceability and regular cleaning of verification records. HyperNodes are the key to achieving SLA and the most significant difference from other decentralized networks (or DePINs) that cannot quantify SLA. ICN writes enterprise level SLA into the protocol layer - HyperNodes running in the community will predict real-time monitoring of IOPS, latency, and availability for each node. Failure to meet the standards will result in deposit or removal, ensuring performance first. Of course, ICN is not a universal key: the lack of industry standards, the difficulty of integrating traditional cloud operation and maintenance systems, and whether high-performance nodes will dilute decentralization are still the next challenges it must prove. But if it can truly integrate the "enterprise level experience+decentralized cost structure", this may be a turning point in DePIN's history - moving from fragmented single functionality to a full stack cloud that can compete head-on with AWS. Next, it remains to be seen whether ICN can maintain the authenticity of HyperNode monitoring after the main network goes live, and provide equally hardcore answers before the enterprise red lines such as multi cloud governance and compliance auditing. If ICN truly fulfills its verifiable SLA and one-stop multi cloud vision, it will not only complete the last piece of the DePIN puzzle, but also have a chance to push decentralized infrastructure onto the mainstream stage.
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