gata.xyz shared that its decentralized GPU cloud is now live, offering direct purchases of GPU credits with its $GATA token.
Built to accelerate the decentralization of the open AI economy, Gata enables anyone, anywhere to access decentralized GPU infrastructure, to build, train, and deploy AI models with full transparency and efficiency.
In the meantime, the decentralized infra provider announced a strategic partnership with SocialGrowAI, a multichain Web3 SocialFi platform.
The collaboration aims to leverage a unified decentralized compute infrastructure, enabling AI models and applications to scale without reliance on centralized cloud providers. A key goal of the partnership is to foster a user-driven AI economy, where community participants contribute to and benefit from decentralized AI and compute resources.
On October 23rd, Tensora launched the first AI-oriented Layer-2 network on the BNB Chain, leveraging Optimism Foundation's OP Stack, with the aim of bringing machine intelligence into the EVM ecosystem.
Tensora aims to create a decentralized “market for machine intelligence,” where users can contribute compute, inference or evaluation power, and be rewarded via on‐chain smart contracts and specialized sub‐nets for tasks such as language, vision, or trading.
It combines on-chain logic (staking, governance, subnet creation) with off-chain AI inference and uses the BNB Chain’s layer for data availability. Key features include ERC-4337 account abstraction (smart wallets), ability to pay gas in $TORA tokens rather than $BNB, and community governance.
Tensora is redefining decentralized AI with an OP Stack-based Layer 2 on BNB Chain, combining scalable blockchain design with an open, on-chain market for machine intelligence.
However, on October 24th, Tensora disclosed that a recent exploit of its L1 contracts was caused by an accidental private key leak: a key was mistakenly included in a GitHub README file during deployment. A scraper bot detected it and drained funds almost immediately.
Tensora emphasized that this was not a shutdown, but a temporary pause to rebuild with proper auditing and external security specialists.
A group of Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University scientists, including Jalen Chuang, Alex Seto, Christina Garman, and Daniel Genkin have proven that TEEs can be easily hacked.
A recently-published paper demonstrates that hardware-backed secure environments known as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), used by cloud providers and others to guarantee confidentiality and integrity, can be broken by physically intercepting memory traffic on DDR5 memory buses. The authors show that by building a “memory interposer” (hardware device placed between the memory bus and DIMMs) using off-the-shelf components, they can observe encrypted memory traffic, extract keys, and forge attestations.
The team successfully extracted attestation signing keys from Intel Corporation's TDX/SGX platforms and from AMD's SEV-SNP machines (with Ciphertext Hiding active). This allows forging attestation reports, thus breaking the guarantee that a workload is running inside a genuine protected TEE. The compromise of these keys also undermines higher-level systems such as GPU confidential computing (e.g., via NVIDIA’s offerings) and cloud services, which rely on TEE attestation for trust.
Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
These findings have serious implications for privacy-focused blockchains that boast TEE-protected execution, such as Phala and iExec. It also affects DePIN projects that rely on NVIDIA machine to offer confidential computing.
In the meantime, Zama's Rand Hindi reminded that this was not the first time TEEs got hacked, and urged builders to use cryptographic confidentiality instead.
I also hear people say “we will only allow permissioned validators to run nodes”. Ok but then how do you allow people to publicly recompute the state and verify the it’s correct if they cant run the TEE themselves? It’s impossible to have public verifiability and security at the same time with TEEs.
Please lets stop this nonsense of relying on TEEs for decentralized applications, they clearly offer zero security and Intel doesnt care about making it better. We are talking about real users funds and data. Just use cryptography instead: FHE, MPC or ZK.
DepinSim has secured $8M in strategic funding to further its decentralized communications initiative. The funding round was led by Outlier Ventures and backed by institutions such as DWF Labs, BITRISE CAPITAL FOUNDATION PTE.LTD., Becker Ventures, and Mask Network .
DepinSim is building on eSIM technology to create a “Free Mobile Internet Protocol”, where users can earn rewards by activating devices, completing tasks or providing data via blockchain-incentivized mechanics. The approach aims to shift connectivity from a service model toward a user-driven global connectivity economy, where each connection is quantified into value and users can earn eSIM data top-ups or exchange for the stablecoin $PIN.
The venture arm of the crypto exchange OKX held an informative discussion about the transformative role of autonomous AI agents in decentralized finance (DeFi). It welcomed Cambrian Network's Sam G., Almanak's Neo, Giza's Renç K., and Makina Fiannce's Colin Platt.
The conversation centered around the paradigm shift brought about by AI, but also the realization that Agentic DeFi requires a complete ecosystem, i.e., application and infrastructure layers developing in tandem. This includes not only user-facing strategy application layers like Giza and Almanak, but also a "rails/settlement" layer like Makina that provides a secure, cross-chain execution environment, and an infrastructure layer like Cambrian Network that provides reliable, verifiable data "fuel" for the agents.
The guests highlighted their main value propositions and target clients: Almanak offering sophisticated trading and wealth management strategies to crypto firms like Ethena Labs, Stake DAO , MEV Capital, Gauntlet, along with CeFi entities and individual users; Cambrian supplying Valory / Olas, Truflation, and Askpire with onchain, sentiment, wallet, and GitHub data; Giza striving to power tailored, personalized finance assistant; and Makina building the infra and tools to make DeFi smarter.
Go over the entire discussion to learn how these companies handle risk management and AI security, and how they imagine the future of Agentic DeFi.
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