1、A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY AI COMPUTEAnastasia Matveeva,Co-creator,Gonka PhD,UPC Barcelona HPC User Forum,Austin,May 2026THE AI COMPUTE BOTTLENECK IS NOW PHYSICAL,NOT ALGORITHMIC2026 US DATA CENTER PIPELINE:announced VS under constructionSources:Sightline Climate,2026 Data Center Ou
2、tlook(Dec 2025; America Data Center Trends H2 2025,FERC quarterly data center load reports,Synergy Research Group(Q3 2025 cloud market share)PRIMARY DRIVERS:-power transformers:2-4 year lead times-grid interconnection:up to 5-year utility queues-local permitting and community oppositionFEDERATION IS
3、 THE ARCHITECTURE THAT SCALES25 YEARS OF FEDERATED COMPUTE:Anastasia Matveeva,Co-creator of Gonka protocolFEDERATED AI COMPUTE IS IN PRODUCTION TODAYAnastasia Matveeva,Co-creator of Gonka protocol4K GPUS OVER 26 COUNTRIES*as of April 2026PERMISSIONLESS,VERIFIABLE,DECENTRALIZED AI COMPUTEGonka is a p
4、ermissionless,verifiable,decentralized compute network.The cloud is reshaped by AI.Blockchain is shaped by finance.Gonka was designed from scratch with AI alignment as the foundation.Permissionless and decentralized means geo-distributed,trustless,and free of any single point of control;blockchain p
5、rovides those governance primitives.Anastasia Matveeva,Co-creator of Gonka protocolALIGNMENT WITH AI WORKLOADS IS EFFICIENCYAnastasia Matveeva,Co-creator of Gonka protocolTHE SAME COMPUTE THAT SECURES THE CHAIN PRODUCES AI OUTPUT.VERIFICATION ISBUILT INAnastasia Matveeva,Co-creator of Gonka protocol
6、The chain secures the exact model parameters running on the network:no silent quantization and no silent model swaps.The system is verification-agnostic by design:whatever primitive matures,Gonka can adopt it without redesign.TEE is one optional layer for workloads requiring hardware-isolated confid