In this episode of DePINed, Fluence co-founders Tom Trowbridge and Evgeny Ponomarev sit down to explore how their team is building a cloudless, decentralized computing network that challenges the dominance of traditional cloud providers.
They dive into the architecture, mission, and real-world potential of Fluence as a DePIN-native protocol for verifiable, resilient, and community-powered compute.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
– How Fluence disrupts traditional cloud infrastructure through cloudless, peer-to-peer computing
– Why open protocols matter for ensuring flexibility, neutrality, and interoperability in Web3 infrastructure
– How Fluence scales by aggregating computing power from diverse, globally distributed nodes
– The major pain points of centralized cloud services — including high costs, opacity, and vendor lock-in
– Fluence’s vision for a transparent, verifiable, and community-owned compute layer
– What cloudless means in practice — and how builders can start using it today
About DePINed Podcast
DePINed is a podcast exploring the frontier of decentralized physical infrastructure, hosted by Tom Trowbridge, co-founder of Fluence. Each episode features in-depth conversations with founders, builders, and investors who are shaping the future of real-world Web3 networks.
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