The thesis that ordinary people can provide the storage, bandwidth and compute space needed by modern applications, at the edge, over peer-to-peer networks.
In an exclusive conversation with BeInCrypto, AIOZ Network Founder and CEO Erman Tjiputra explains the idea, why it’s important for everyday users, and how AIOZ Network aims to be the first application DePIN stack for AI, streaming, and storage.
The project envisions itself as a community-supported Internet infrastructure for the AI era, unifying distributed storage, AI compute, and media streaming within a single network.
“Call it like it is,” Tjiputra tells BeInCrypto.
“Neighbors help neighbors with their internet. If you have a home Wi-Fi network, a gaming PC with a GPU, or a spare hard drive, you can contribute resources and unlock the potential for token rewards. There’s no single choke point, and services are close to users on the edge, so it’s faster and fairer.”
What does “people-powered Internet” mean?
The simplest example of jiputra begins at home.
“You install our lightweight app. Your home Wi-Fi network becomes a direct on-ramp. Your gaming PC can transcode video, run AI inference tasks, or install files. An SSD/HDD stores pieces of content. When someone near you watches a stream or connects to an AI model, the network routes it peer-to-peer from the closest contributors. You unlock potential token rewards. They get speed.”
AIOZ Network says the goal is not to emulate a premium data center; The goal is to make sharing meaningful on day one because users can stream, store, or play the AI immediately, first by design.
The AIOZ Network positions itself as non-blockchain based (Cosmos/EVM), DePIN is specifically designed for AI + Media + Storage, and already leverages a global base of contributors that the AIOZ Network numbers in the hundreds of thousands of devices.
The AIOZ Network is a unified stack, AI compute (AIOZ AI), storage (AIOZ Storage, S3 compatible), streaming (AIOZ Stream), and IPFS pinning (AIOZ Pin), all powered by DePIN. Delivered as composable primitives, these services allow Web3 applications to take advantage of evolving peer-to-peer infrastructure from day one.
Why does this amplify today’s internet for everyday people
Tjiputra tells Innovators:
“Maintain ownership and get transparent on-chain payments. Sell subscriptions, pay-per-view, tips, or run ad-supported channels where revenue sharing is on-chain.”
The AIOZ Stream model explicitly supports SVOD, TVOD, AVOD, and tipping, with an optional viewing incentive to earn that can reward viewers from ad auctions.
On the viewer side, he emphasizes a seamless experience: “Watch with great quality and privacy, even without a wallet,” he adds, noting the possibility of onboarding AIOZ Stream without a wallet for regular users while maintaining the chain’s transparency behind the scenes.
And for software creators, there are no gatekeepers: “Open SDKs and APIs across storage, streaming and AI, so developers can ship quickly,” he says.
Simple flywheel
Devices contribute resources → Contributors unlock access to token rewards → Creators publish and get paid → Viewers watch and can support directly → Developers publish AI tools and apps → All usage feeds the network.
Practically speaking, anyone can use a home computer or NAS to provision storage, bandwidth, or GPU cycles. The network measures uptime, proximity, and quality, and allocates work accordingly so that contributors open up the possibility of token rewards tied to verified delivery and compute.
These tokens originate from real usage: SVOD/TVOD, AVOD with on-chain forks, tips, developer spending on heuristics and datasets. As activity grows, more devices join, latency decreases, and costs decrease, attracting more creators and apps and compounding the loop.
“It’s a single network where AI, streaming and storage reinforce each other,” says Tjiputra. “Every viewer session, every form call, every file read and write, strengthens the DePIN layer underneath.”
Not a premium data center: What makes the AIOZ network different
In an industry where many DePIN projects look like “token data centers,” AIOZ Network insists that it is powered by people and puts the application first.
“We’ve built apps that make engagement meaningful on day one,” says Tjiputra. “Creators can go live, viewers can click play, and creators can publish templates, all on a peer-to-peer edge provided by the users themselves.”
AIOZ’s Stream Vision Paper describes a decentralized content delivery stack that routes video/audio through contributors and pays everyone, creators, contributors, and even viewers (when enabled), via the same token rails, including ad auctions (AVOD), subscriptions (SVOD), and transactions (TVOD). User experience principles emphasize speed and wallet-free setup for casual users.
“Put a Mini‑CDN in every home”
Djebutra’s long-term vision is straightforward:
“Put a small CDN in every home,” he says. “If millions of everyday devices quietly power the Internet, it will become faster, cheaper and more flexible for everyone.” The AIOZ Network wants to provide a people cloud that serves media, AI and storage from the edge, owned by users and interoperable across the chains people already use.
Run the following ChatGPT from your living room
“Run the next ChatGPT from your home, as a contributor and consumer,” adds Tjiputra. “If you have a GPU, inference tasks can run on your box. You’ll be rewarded via DePIN, where a neighbor calls the model with sub-second latency because it’s served at the edge, not halfway across the world.”
AIOZ AI is described as a distributed compute layer and marketplace where models/datasets can be deployed, licensed and monetized on-chain, bridging AI workloads with DePIN incentives.
DePIN powers Web3
AIOZ Network sees participation as more than just concessions for passive viewers – it is a path from viewing to profit to a real building economy to profit. “Watching for profit is a tactic.
“The biggest step is building for profit,” says Djibutra.
“Host a DePIN app, moderate a channel, convert a stream, pin content, run model inference, contribute useful work and unlock the potential for token rewards. This is the broader sharing economy we strive for.”
When asked about the endgame, Tjiputra went back to first principles:
“It’s the Internet infrastructure for Web3, a public people cloud for media, AI, and storage. Peer-to-peer at the edge; open, verifiable, and owned by the users who run it.”
The AIOZ Network enables a merit-based contribution model across a multi-chain pool, with the goal of making AI compute, storage, and streaming community-supported and interoperable.
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