The AI Platform for Builders
Create, deploy, monetize
Vision
Open infrastructure & AI is essential to ensuring AI remains a community-owned resource,but open-source still struggles to monetize.
Lilypad unlocks the future of AI by turning your custom models into revenue engines — deploy, monetize, and scale with zero friction on our global distribution & compute network. From DeSci breakthroughs to agent pipelines and AI-driven apps, Lilypad fuels an explosion of downstream innovation, unlocking limitless possibilities for solopreneurs and serious businesses.
How It Works
AI Developers earn directly for their contributions, with a platform for AI model distribution on a decentralized network with blockchain payment rails.
Upload and configure your AI model in minutes, earn revenue each time a model is utilized
Execute workloads seamlessly on decentralized compute, with Lilypad's extensive library of community-built models
Tap into a global network of GPUs as needed as your applications scale.
Ethos
An Accessible Marketplace of AI Deployment and MonetizationLilypad is a business model for all — deploy, monetize, and scale your custom AI models with zero friction on our global compute network. Every model earns, every creator gets paid, and the AI economy finally works for the innovators driving it forward.
AI Compute Without Bottlenecks
Open, global access to a competitively priced network of GPUs. Scalable AI for all with blockchain-powered payment rails.
Nodes Earn Per Task
Every AI model on Lilypad runs on a per-job basis. Compute providers can monetize idle compute, when and how they wish, picking up jobs on the network.
Easily Deploy Any Model
No MLOPs, no pay per GPU-hour. Containterize, configure, run as a serverless function.
Model Monetization
Those who publish custom models earn per job run. Network effect growth at the rate of AI innovation.
Decentralized Supercloud
A dynamically scalable, fault-tolerant mesh network. Aggregate GPUs from anywhere with blockchain payment rails and smart contract automation.
Modular and Composable
Integrate any model directly into an application. Pick and choose from models for decentralized science, autonomous agents, or specialized AI applications
Our Story
A Story of Two Trailblazers Empowering AI for All
Lilypad's journey began with Ally, a software engineer with a diverse background in cutting edge technologies, and Stanley, a bioinformatician driven by a passion for open science and accessible research. They recognize that there is a wealth of groundbreaking AI ideas who are held back by the lack of access to powerful computing resources.
Ally, with her background in engineering at IBM and Protocol Labs, and Stanley with a decade of expertise in high-performance computing for medical research, saw a world where innovation was bottlenecked, not by a lack of talent, but by the scarcity of affordable compute.
The solution? Harness the untapped potential of billions of idle computers across the globe.
Lilypad was born from this vision – a decentralized network democratizing access to AI compute. By leveraging blockchain technology and open communities, Lilypad connects those with spare compute to those who need it, ensuring transparency, security, and fair compensation for all.
"We're creating a protocol where compute jobs are matched dynamically with nodes, ensuring optimized resource allocation without middlemen and overhead."
Lilypad's peer-to-peer marketplace for computational tasks significantly lowers the computing cost compared to traditional services.
Stanley is working on Lilypad as a platform to advance his mission of applying machine learning to biological research. He envisions a future where Lilypad's computing power accelerates medical and genetic research breakthroughs.
Lilypad is a testament to Ally and Stanley's shared belief: the future of AI should be open, accessible, and community-driven. With their combined vision and expertise, they're making that future a reality, one hop at a time.
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