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What is Atlas Network?
Atlas Network is the leading general-purpose Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) compute marketplace: redefining cloud infrastructure management. Atlas Network’s marketplace ensures that compute providers and consumers benefit from verifiable, high-availability, economically secure infrastructure: allowing anyone to provide, purchase, deploy, and manage verifiable compute.
When you run critical infrastructure in the cloud, you need to know that your compute provider can keep those services live. And, to be a successful compute provider, you need to show consumers that your services are reliable. Atlas Network’s verifiable, DePIN orchestration layer allows compute providers to verifiably demonstrate the resilience of the service they provide to compute consumers.
Atlas Network offers to transform the traditional compute consumption model by implementing the best that blockchain technology has to offer: decentralized, tamper-proof protocols. Atlas Network enforces compute provider’s integrity with its Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVS). This ensures that compute providers are incentivized to meet their SLAs through automated rewards and penalties: all verifiably monitored and enforced via the NodeWatch Network.
Who is Atlas Network for?
From the consumer perspective, Atlas Network is for anyone who needs cloud compute.
From the provider perspective, Atlas Network allows ecosystem participants to earn by becoming a:
- Compute provider
- NodeWatcher: entities running the NodeWatch light client
- Restaking operator: operators on restaking platforms providing AVS
The Atlas Network marketplace brings together a diverse group of compute infrastructure providers, from solo validators to decentralized compute and centralized compute providers, along with various restaking platforms like EigenLayer, Babylon, Solayer, and others to bring crypto-economic security to this pool of providers and the different kinds of nodes (and other deployable compute) for protocols across verticals sucha as Gaming, AI, DePIN, and more, all under one roof.
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An easy to understand overview of Atlas Network.
