Driving Web3 Infrastructure Growth with AI Integration and Expanded Market Reach

AI+DEPIN is undoubtedly one of the hottest tracks in this period! Previously, we often discussed AI solutions on the computing power side, such as #IO, #AKT, etc., and AI model solutions like #TAO. However, there has been little mention of the AI underlying infrastructure field. AI model training relies heavily on vast user IPs to assist in feeding, as well as the support of network bandwidth. Leading the way in this niche is @NetworkMeson, quietly cultivating for three years and now rising steadily! Let’s delve into the details today!

Meson Network is an efficient decentralized bandwidth market on Web3, aggregating idle bandwidth resources through mining to meet the rapid access needs of institutions and individual users for information streams (such as images, videos, and data). Use cases include decentralized storage, AI, public chain nodes, and more.

Meson Network can be understood as a bandwidth resource pool, with both supply and demand sides. The former contribute bandwidth, while the latter utilizes bandwidth.

1️⃣ GatewayX integrates global commercial idle IP and bandwidth, such as resources from IDC data centers. With surplus and troughs in usage, one can contribute their idle resources. A typical use case is CDN services: caching required files in nearby IDCs for target users, utilizing the bandwidth there for transmission when users access.

Dedicated Gateway: Provides dedicated gateway connections, supporting various Web3 domain name service resolution acceleration services.

2️⃣ GaGaNode primarily integrates idle bandwidth from household and personal devices to provide edge computing assistance. Household routers, computers, smartphones, and even small devices like Raspberry Pis can serve as edge nodes in the network, optimizing application response times and meeting various needs such as real-time business processing, smart application development, and security and privacy protection.

Mining Node Tutorial, 👇 supports all platforms:

https://docs.gaganode.com/running/

3️⃣IPCola serves as Meson’s monetization channel, handling tasks such as IP and bandwidth allocation. It is made accessible to external parties through APIs, supporting various sectors including social media, e-commerce, finance, and SEO.

The project has already achieved positive cash flow, with overall revenue exceeding millions of dollars within six months of launch and continuing to grow rapidly.

By comparison, Google’s business in this domain is valued at $1.7 trillion, indicating significant growth potential for Meson in the future.

Currently, Meson has a total of 216,000+ global nodes, including 170,000+ Gaganode nodes contributing idle bandwidth and 46,000+ GatewayX commercial nodes, covering 150 regions worldwide. This effectively supports the bandwidth needs of different regions for data access.

Observation URL: https://explorer.meson.network:1984/d/mzO2Tpg4k/home?orgId=2

1️⃣ AI Industry

Since the inception of ChatGPT, the top 50 AI products globally have generated over 28 billion visits, with an average monthly growth of 236.3 million visits. Such enormous demand relies heavily on substantial computing power and model training. Additionally, it requires vast user data (IP) to assist in feeding data and bandwidth resources to provide support.

Due to the multitude and complexity of AI models, model training typically employs various parallel computing strategies, such as data parallelism, pipeline parallelism, and tensor parallelism. In parallel computing modes, the importance of collective communication operations among multiple computing devices is increasingly prominent. Therefore, when constructing large-scale training clusters for building AI models, network bandwidth is crucial.

Additionally, AI training requires the scraping of large amounts of data, necessitating the use of multiple IPs to circumvent data access restrictions, which is crucial for data feeding.

2️⃣ Decentralized Storage:

The current cloud storage market boasts a trillion-dollar market size. However, decentralized storage accounts for less than 10% of this market, indicating enormous untapped potential. Meson’s growth in CDN acceleration services will be immeasurable. Meson currently serves as the largest gateway for #FIL and #AR.

CDN efficiently delivers data such as music, images, and applications to users by utilizing servers closest to each user. [Link](https://twitter.com/samecwilliams/status/1432452769785462797)

3️⃣ Public Chain Services:

For L1, synchronizing ledgers across different nodes globally is a challenging task.

For L2, aggregating and packaging transaction data to L1 and ensuring faster data verification and caching pose significant challenges.

However, #Meson provides the best solutions for all these issues. Recently, through collaboration with the BSC chain, Meson has greatly improved the speed of network synchronization, playing an invisible angelic role in the operation and security of public chains.

Existing Partnerships:

• Decentralized Storage Solutions: Integrating FIL and AR as the underlying technologies supporting its storage.

• Public Chains: Collaborating with public chains like ARB to provide more efficient RPC services.

• Applications: Collaborating with application layer projects such as social gaming platform Ultiverse, RSS3, Cyber, etc., to provide services like data content transmission and distribution.

• Web2 Enterprises: Partnering with cloud service providers like Amazon AWS to deploy Meson nodes.

Core Narrative:

DEPIN: It’s the hottest field this year, encompassing two aspects: 1. Physical resource networks, including wireless networks, 5G networks, IoT networks, image and mapping networks, and mobile networks; 2. Digital resource networks, including bandwidth networks, storage, computing networks, etc.

Whether it’s aggregating idle bandwidth resources from around the world or using token economics to incentivize users to join the network, Meson perfectly aligns with the concept of DePIN.

AI: The growth of AI agents and gaming projects will further drive the industry’s demand for computing. However, these projects face computing bottlenecks and limitations in collaboration. Meson, focusing on edge computing power, can effectively address this issue. For example, it can provide ample bandwidth support for AI model training or contribute to open-source AI model training by providing public data.

Modularization/Middleware: With the exponential increase in data generated by applications and user interactions, when database systems contain massive data pages storing table data, appropriate indexes are needed to efficiently locate the corresponding data. The speed of data retrieval and query directly impacts user experience, making application smoothness crucial. Meson provides data caching services for projects and offers high-speed downloads.

Meson has completed five rounds of financing:

• Seed round in February 2021, with investors including Mask Network and Youbi Capital.
• Series A round in June 2021, jointly led by DCG, Libertus, Mask Network, and Hash Global, raising $3.5 million.
• In December 2021, Mask Network and Hash Global participated in a $5 million investment.
• In 2024, Meson completed two strategic rounds of financing, with a final valuation reaching up to $1 billion.

Meson Token: $MSN, with an initial total supply of 100 million tokens. The initial mining inflation rate is 5% for the first year, decreasing by 0.5% annually.

• Private: 26,000,000 (26%)
• Public: 5,000,000 (5%)
• Ecosystem: 27,000,000 (27%)
• Foundation: 20,000,000 (20%)
• Technical Team: 15,000,000 (15%)
• Partners: 6,000,000 (6%)
• Testnet: 1,000,000 (1%)

Token Value Capture:

• Miner rewards
• Miner staking to enhance mining efficiency
• User payments
• Protocol governance

In summary, the core demand for tokens will come from miners, B-side users including but not limited to public chains, NFT projects, and other blockchain projects, as well as C-side users.

Summary:

Meson, as a crucial infrastructure in the Web3 market, combined with the momentum of AI, has achieved rapid growth. Meanwhile, its business logic is well-rounded. In comparison with similar products, Meson is not limited to any particular blockchain ecosystem and aims to expand to a broader user base. Currently, its three major products are clearly defined, generating revenue in the millions of dollars. Moreover, Meson taps into three core narratives: AI, DEPIN, and modularization/middleware. The potential for future growth is immeasurable!