I saw a tweet asking: “If $BTC disappeared tomorrow, what would replace it?”
Most of the replies pointed to $ETH and other major tokens.
But I’d throw $FLT into the conversation.
AI is becoming one of the biggest drivers of demand for compute, and that makes decentralized infrastructure increasingly interesting to me.
In a recent AMA, Fluence co-founder Evgeny Ponomarev talked about Fluence’s vision of building an alternative to the big centralized cloud providers, starting with AI and moving toward a more decentralized compute layer.
I’m not saying FLT replaces Bitcoin. I’m saying that if AI continues reshaping the digital economy, the infrastructure powering it deserves more.
With 6,468 GPUs currently available across 4 countries, the marketplace is already giving users a live view of distributed compute capacity.
The marketplace lets buyers browse available compute, publish a specific request, and compare what different providers are offering.
https://auctions.fluence.network/
Providers can do the opposite by listing their available capacity and putting it in front of qualified demand. What makes this useful is the amount of information attached to a bid.
An accepted offer records the price, SLA, rental window, and bid history, giving both sides a clearer picture of what they are actually agreeing to. I also like that browsing comes before signing up. You can review the marketplace first, while posting, bidding, listing capacity, or signing a contract goes through marketplace review.
That creates a more structured process for something that can otherwise be surprisingly difficult: finding the right GPU capacity at the right time and under terms that actually fit the workload.
With thousands of GPUs becoming visible across different locations, this feels less like a simple GPU directory and more like infrastructure becoming easier to discover and transact.
Reliable compute is what AI will need more of and then there’s @Fluence making compute more flexible.
AI agents are becoming more complex. Instead of making one request and stopping, they can call tools, access information, run tasks, and make several decisions before completing a job.
That means even small slowdowns along the way can add up. What looks like a minor delay in one step can become a noticeable delay by the time the entire task is finished.
That’s where I can see Fluence’s dedicated CPU compute coming in handy
For workloads that need stable performance, having more predictable compute capacity could help reduce the impact of shared-resource slowdowns.
I think this could become increasingly important as AI agents move into production and handle more demanding workloads.
The bigger opportunity for Fluence, in my view, is showing that decentralized compute can deliver not only competitive pricing, but also the reliability developers need for real-world AI applications.