We are all paying for Computing Power, and the cloud service Transaction History feels like rent in the digital age, arriving right on time every month, but you can never own a brick or tile of the hardware itself. This centralized, monopolistic model always makes me feel something is wrong. Why is the digital value we create built on such quicksand?

Recently, I saw the ComputeFi concept proposed by @cysic_xyz, and I think it strikes at the core of the issue. It is not just about being faster or cheaper; it is a profound transformation regarding the ownership of Computing Power.

My understanding is that the essence of ComputeFi is to attempt to turn computing power from a rental service into an ownable asset. Imagine that you are no longer just a tenant paying rent to a cloud provider, but can truly own a portion of the computing resources through tokenization, becoming one of the landlords in this digital world. This is not just a change in business model; it fundamentally adjusts the production relationship between contributors and beneficiaries.

Several changes it brought made me feel particularly interesting:

From Consumption to Investment: The use of Computing Power is no longer just a pure consumption behavior. When the Computing Power assets you own are working in the network, they are generating profits for you. This opens a new door for developers and small teams, as Computing Power can become an investment in production materials.

Verifiable is trustworthy: all computations leave traces on the chain, with automatic verification and profit distribution by code. This means that trust no longer relies on the brand of a centralized institution but on mathematics and public rules. The participation data of hundreds of thousands of nodes in the @cysic_xyz test network has preliminarily proven the scalability of this model.

The efficiency revolution is foundational: to realize this vision, the underlying technology must also innovate. Customized ASICs and deeply optimized GPU solutions claim to deliver a 10-100 times performance improvement. In my view, this is a typical feature of paradigm shift, not merely patching up the old system, but rather reconstructing the underlying engine for new goals.

Ultimately, ComputeFi's ambition is to build a Computing Power capital market, where computing power is a tradable asset like stocks or bonds, and its value flows directly in a global market without intermediaries profiting from monopolistic price differences.

I believe that if this model can succeed, it will change not just our Transaction History, but the foundational logic of the entire digital economy. When Computing Power truly becomes ownable, verifiable, and tradable, we may usher in a next generation of the internet that is genuinely driven by code and community, rather than by the bills of giants.