**Baking bread with no oven.**Imagine you’re trying to bake a perfect loaf of bread, but every time you do it, you have to build the oven from scratch. Not only does it cost you a fortune in bricks and firewood, but once you’re done baking, the oven just sits there—cold, unused, and slowly falling apart.This is what today’s zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) landscape looks like.

**Proofs demand infrastructure.**Generating ZK proofs isn't just hard—it’s infrastructure-heavy. Developers are forced to spin up high-performance machines with specialized hardware just to carry out the math-heavy operations needed for ZKPs. But here’s the twist: these machines are rarely used at full capacity. Most of the time, they're just idling, quietly eating away at budgets and operational sanity.

**A system that drains more than it gives.**Worse still, because every team has to reinvent the wheel and deploy its own infrastructure, the whole ecosystem suffers from bloated costs and sluggish performance. Developers spend more time babysitting servers than building apps. Users pay the price—literally—with higher fees. And designing the right incentives to keep these proof factories alive? That’s a balancing act few can pull off without tipping into inefficiency or exploitation.

**A new model is needed.**So what’s the alternative?Fermah flips the model.

**From isolated machines to shared energy.**Instead of each team building their own "proof ovens," Fermah creates a bustling marketplace where anyone can tap into shared infrastructure—already optimized, already humming, already scaled. It's a public square for proof generation, where supply meets demand in real time, and everyone benefits from the liquidity of compute.

**AWS meets DePIN—without the gatekeepers.**Think of Fermah like AWS for ZKPs—but leaner, fairer, and focused on cryptographic workloads. You don't rent a whole server farm; you pay only for the exact amount of proof-generation you need. And unlike AWS, Fermah is not a corporate walled garden. It's decentralized, permissionless, and driven by incentives that actually work—modeled closer to DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) like Akash or io.net than to traditional cloud providers.

**Three major wins.**By doing this, Fermah achieves three things at once:

• It slashes costs by removing redundant infrastructure and maximizing usage.

• It speeds things up by pooling globally distributed compute resources under one roof.

• It builds reliability through a resilient network of proof-generators competing to deliver the best service.

**We’ve seen this movie before.**We’ve seen similar breakthroughs elsewhere. Helium made it easy for individuals to share their wireless networks. Filecoin unlocked idle storage all over the world. Fermah is doing the same—only instead of bandwidth or hard drives, it's tapping into global cryptographic horsepower.

**Fermah is inevitable.**In short, Fermah takes the tangled mess of proof generation and transforms it into a clean, composable, decentralized market. It's no longer about who has the biggest machines—it's about who can deliver fast, cheap, and reliable proofs when the world needs them.And in a world hurtling toward zk-enabled everything—from privacy-preserving identity to rollups and beyond—Fermah isn’t just useful.It’s inevitable.