San Francisco, CA | July 1, 2025 – GenLayer, the trustless decision maker for the AI Age, today announced a strategic partnership with io.net, a decentralized cloud provider for on-demand GPU clusters. This collaboration merges GenLayer’s AI-native consensus with io.net’s distributed compute network, establishing a foundation for decentralized, high-throughput inference for dApps and Agents. 

Through this partnership, GenLayer validators will gain access to over 30 open-source AI models running on thousands of geo-distributed GPUs, which will power AI-driven contract execution, autonomous dispute resolution, and real-world data processing.

"AI won't wait for lawyers. If we want AI Agents to participate in economic activities, we need infrastructure that operates at machine speed," said Albert Castellana, Co-Founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs. "We're using a blockchain that has multiple AIs coordinating and reaching agreement on subjective decisions, as if they were a judge. We're basically building a global synthetic jurisdiction that has an embedded court system that doesn't sleep, that's super cheap, and operates at machine speed."

Unlocking a New Class of AI-Powered Applications

By combining io.net's decentralized GPU infrastructure with GenLayer's Intelligent Contracts, developers can now build applications with capabilities far beyond traditional smart contracts:

• AI-Powered Commerce: Power AI-to-AI transactions where agents can negotiate, settle, and resolve disputes without human intervention, scaling digital commerce to machine speed.
• Dynamic Oracles: Replace static data feeds with LLM-driven oracles capable of subjective reasoning and natural language interpretation, bringing nuanced decision-making on-chain, such as: 
  
  • Real-Time Insurance Payouts: Trigger settlements based on live event monitoring and web-sourced data, with AI validators interpreting conditions and executing payouts automatically.
  • Prediction Markets: Enable markets that resolve based on natural language outcomes, real-time events, and subjective conditions: validated trustlessly by decentralized AI.
• Autonomous DAOs: These enable decentralized organizations to adapt in real time to new information and make governance decisions based on real-world context.

Key Benefits of the Partnership

The collaboration unlocks: 

• Enhanced Model Diversity: GenLayer validators gain access to up to 30 open-source models, including Llama and Deepseek, significantly improving consensus reliability and reducing single-point-of-failure risks.
• Scalable Infrastructure: GenLayer built dApps gains scalability, low latency, and enterprise-ready reliability.
• Seamless Integration: Builders can directly utilize decentralized AI inference integrated into GenLayer's Optimistic Democracy consensus through io.net's on demand GPU. 
• Global Accessibility: The partnership enables worldwide access to GenLayer's synthetic jurisdiction, allowing AI agents and organizations globally to leverage trustless arbitration and automated contract enforcement.

"GenLayer’s AI driven contracts, integrated with io.net’s decentralized GPU infrastructure, will enable developers to build efficient, autonomous, and trusted AI applications. The partnership advances decentralized commerce," Tausif Ahmed, CBDO, io.net said.

About GenLayer

Founded in 2023, GenLayer serves as the legal and trust layer for the AI economy via an AI-powered court system that ensures events are enforceable, trustworthy, and autonomous. GenLayer introduces a global synthetic jurisdiction – an always-on digital court system that operates at machine speed and with unprecedented efficiency. Backed by leading investors including North Island Ventures, Arrington Capital, ZK Ventures, and Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom, GenLayer is redefining global digital commerce for the AI economy. The company has raised $7.5 million in seed funding and has been featured in CoinDesk, VentureBeat, Forbes, and TheStreet for its novel approach to AI-blockchain convergence.

Learn more at genlayer.com.

About io.net

io.net is a decentralized cloud provider that deploys and manages on-demand, decentralized GPU clusters from geo-distributed sources. With thousands of GPUs accessible in the IO Network, the platform is specifically architected for low-latency, high-processing demand use cases like AI/ML operations. io.net also operates IO Intelligence, a free-inference platform providing AI developers access to up to 30 open-source models and tools for building agents using agentic infrastructure and RAG as a service. The company is focused on democratizing access to compute resources and enabling the next generation of AI-powered applications.

Learn more at io.net.

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