Thanks, D. It was disheartening to see other core web3 providers like Akash and Storj, who provide similar decentralized services, highlighted while we were ignored. I understand that desire to refine what DePIN means to Messari, but as long as those projects are mentioned, POKT fits into that thesis.
POKT isn’t just strictly for crypto, although that’s where it’s found its most common use case. We are building out to be a broad services decentralized data provider, with the current focus on supporting LLM inference models for DecAI, as written about most recently by Grove’s CEO. As POKT expands beyond RPC and gRPC into webhooks, Restful APIs, and other data sources and types, it is well positioned to be the middleware of the internet at large.
As Michael wrote here:
Pocket can support any open source service or public database. Specifically, Pocket will now be able to support open source LLMs hosted by node runners . Hosting an open-source model such as Llama 2 is simple and inexpensive. Unlike a blockchain which is stateful and needs to continuously sync with the network, LLMs are stateless and only need periodic updates, done manually, when the model is updated.
Framing POKT purely as a crypto RPC provider misses the vision entirely. Much like Akash and Storj, POKT is part of a much bigger picture for open data and the open internet at large. The community would very much like to see Messari treating that appropriately.
Thank you for joining here, and for your response.