Overview
- Pavel Durov introduced Cocoon at the Blockchain Life 2025 conference in Dubai, framing it as the Confidential Compute Open Network.
- GPU owners will be able to supply compute and earn Toncoin, while developers tap a market-driven, censorship-resistant system for low-cost inference.
- Telegram will be the first large-scale customer, integrating Cocoon into its mini-app and bot ecosystem for AI tasks like summarization and writing assistance.
- Cocoon is slated to launch in November 2025, and applications are open now for both hardware providers and developers.
- AlphaTON Capital announced plans to invest in high-performance GPU infrastructure to help supply compute capacity for Cocoon at launch.