ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Aethir has announced its integration with EigenLayer, a blockchain infrastructure platform for restaking solutions, to fundamentally transform the scalability and efficiency of decentralized cloud computing.This integration will simplify the on-chain process for non-Web3 native GPU service providers, expand Aethir's decentralized network capabilities, and bring new development opportunities to both communities, thereby significantly advancing the development of decentralized cloud infrastructure. The integration of EigenLayer's Active Validation Service (AVS) model can greatly enhance Aethir's scalability, providing more restaking opportunities for ATH token holders and maximizing their returns within the ecosystem. This diversified resource pool enables Aethir to maintain a utilization rate of 70%, far exceeding industry standards. The integration also helps to further advance Aethir's "New Horizons" program, which aims to expand its network by attracting high-quality cloud hosting providers."The integration of Aethir with EigenLayer is a key milestone in Aethir's journey to redefine the future of decentralized cloud computing," said Aethir CEO Daniel Wang. "By leveraging EigenLayer's restaking framework, we not only expand our community's staking opportunities but also unlock new growth opportunities for computing service providers and enterprises. Together, we are setting a new benchmark for the DePIN ecosystem."It is reported that Aethir is an enterprise-grade AI GPU-as-a-service provider, having raised over $140 million in total. Aethir has a rapidly growing network, with approximately 400,000 state-of-the-art GPUs across 93 locations, including over 3,000 NVIDIA H100s and more than 59,000 Aethir Edges, providing scalable GPU computing resources on demand globally.

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ChainCatcher news, last year the video sharing platform and cloud service provider Rumble, which received approximately $775 million investment from Tether, reached a cloud service agreement with the Salvadoran government to provide cloud storage (object and block storage), cloud computing, databases, load balancers, and Kubernetes integration services.In December last year, it was reported that Tether made a strategic investment of $775 million in the YouTube alternative platform Rumble.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized streaming platform Theta has released its roadmap for 2025. In the first half of 2025, the focus will be on launching the hybrid cloud edge architecture of EdgeCloud in June and expanding the rapidly growing edge network. This release will fully support a distributed edge architecture across devices, regions, and configurations, capable of prioritizing and opting out of specific job types, as well as analyzing completed jobs. A developer API interface will also be released, providing developers with the tools needed for efficient development on EdgeCloud. Other key features will be launched based on the needs of current EdgeCloud customers, such as persistent storage, GPU node upgrades, and on-demand API access to AI models. These features, along with the beta version of the AI Agents platform, will automatically utilize AI models through on-chain autonomous interactions to enable a wide range of use cases and encourage adoption by customers in key target areas such as academia, private enterprises, professional sports, and esports.In the second half of the year, the Theta Hackathon will be expanded into an offline event, providing ongoing support for Theta ecosystem projects. Discussions are underway with several well-known professional sports and esports teams, hoping that EdgeCloud can assist them in formulating AI strategies and potentially launching sub-chains to support their business use cases. Third-party platforms are also considering integrating TDROP as a user participation token, starting with OpenTheta, with more platforms expected to launch by 2025. Additionally, there is an evaluation underway to possibly rebrand TDROP to extend its utility to AI agents, RAG chatbots, and other consumer-facing AI and video AI applications built on EdgeCloud. Finally, the hybrid edge cloud architecture of EdgeCloud will be fully launched in 2025, including intelligent job orchestration and optimization, as well as comprehensive support for Linux, Windows, and Mac.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, American tech giant Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion over the next two years to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities in India. This investment includes a partnership with the Indian government on an AI-focused initiative called INDIAai, which aims to provide AI training for 500,000 people and establish new data centers.Additionally, Microsoft has signed strategic partnerships with RailTel, Apollo Hospitals, Bajaj Finserv, Mahindra Group, and upGrad. Microsoft will also provide benefits from the Founders Hub program to up to 1,000 AI startups in India, such as Azure credits, business resources, and mentorship.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy announced a partnership with STACKIT, a cloud service provider under the Schwarz Group, to launch the MicroStrategy Sovereign European Cloud.The platform provides AI-driven business intelligence (BI) solutions, MicroStrategy ONE, that comply with GDPR and local data sovereignty requirements for highly regulated industries in Europe, to facilitate data-driven decision-making while ensuring compliance with local data sovereignty requirements.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Solana ecosystem LST protocol Sanctum announced that its token CLOUD's staking service will be launched this month.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Information, informed sources say that Google recently asked the U.S. government to lift Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI technology on its cloud servers. This conversation took place after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, one of the main federal antitrust enforcement agencies) inquired about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.The source stated that companies competing with Microsoft in cloud server leasing (including Google and Amazon) want to host OpenAI's artificial intelligence themselves, so their cloud customers do not need to rely on Microsoft's servers to access the startup's technology.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 AI cloud startup Hyperbolic announced the completion of a $12 million Series A funding round, led by Variant and Polychain Capital, with participation from Chapter One, Lightspeed Faction, Bankless Ventures, GSR, IOSG, Vertex, Blockchain Builders Fund, Wintermute, Alumni Ventures, 10K Ventures, Ambush Capital, and several angel investors. With this investment, Hyperbolic has raised a total of $20 million.The new funds will be used to expand the engineering and strategic teams and enter the market. Hyperbolic plans to launch its own blockchain next year. According to reports, Hyperbolic aims to provide verifiable, secure, and reliable AI services to the market by integrating global GPU computing resources and incorporating blockchain technology, effectively alleviating the industry's pain points of high computing resource costs and uneven distribution. At the same time, the company has also launched a decentralized orchestration layer, Hyper-dOS (Hyperbolic Distributed Operating System), to provide solid technical support for the entire GPU market.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 cloud computing platform 4EVERLAND announces an upcoming airdrop and has launched exchange account binding services. Users must complete the exchange binding by December 11, 2024, at 8:00 AM (UTC+8). The first batch of airdrops will be distributed to users who have bound their exchange accounts, with no on-chain transaction fees required.4EVERLAND is a Web3 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, networking, and computing power. 4EVERLAND focuses on DePIN+AI, aiming to establish a distributed, high-efficiency, self-incentivized, low-cost, and user-friendly one-stop developer platform to help developers smoothly transition from Web2 to Web3, providing infrastructure for millions of Web3 developers and applications.4EVERLAND has over 250,000 applications and developer clients, serving numerous well-known projects such as Snapshot, PumpFun, Hey.xyz, and Linear.

ChainCatcher news reports that the decentralized AI-as-a-service cloud project Heurist has completed a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from institutions such as Amber Group, Contango Digital Assets, Manifold, Selini Capital, Sharding Capital, X Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, Mozaik Capital, Steroids Capital, and several angel investors.According to RootData, Heurist is a Layer2 network based on ZK Stack for hosting and inference of artificial intelligence models. It provides serverless access to open-source AI models hosted by a decentralized computing resource network. Its vision is to leverage blockchain to democratize artificial intelligence, ensuring accessibility and equitable innovation.

ChainCatcher news, BNB Chain announced a $10 million cloud service credit investment from Google Cloud to support the development of MVB projects within its ecosystem. Through this collaboration, over 40 projects in BNB Chain's "Most Valuable Builders" (MVB) program will each be able to apply for up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits, primarily for projects focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Other projects in different areas will also have the opportunity to receive $200,000 in credits, valid for 2 years.The MVB (Most Valuable Builder) program is an accelerator project jointly launched by BNB Chain, Binance Labs, and CMC Labs, focusing on supporting early developers in Web3.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized storage platform MEMO recently announced that its Memo Megrez network will undergo an upgrade. MEMO will officially become a user-centric AI data cloud, providing comprehensive solutions for the integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.It is reported that the MEMO network offers a full range of services, including data storage, computing, and content distribution. Enterprises and individuals can contribute idle storage resources through the MEMO network and monetize these resources through its incentive model to achieve stable income.After the network upgrade is completed, MEMO will provide a global data cloud network for AI enterprises, developers, and enthusiasts, supporting them in building and deploying decentralized AI models and applications.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, the blockchain startup accelerator Cronos Labs, dedicated to expanding the Cronos blockchain ecosystem, announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, making Google Cloud the primary cloud provider for the Cronos ecosystem and introducing it to Cronos validators to enhance on-chain performance.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted cloud storage platform Storj has announced the appointment of Colby Winegar as CEO. He previously served as the Chief Revenue Officer of Storj for many years, driving key strategic partnerships, technology alliances, acquisitions, and new customers.Before joining Storj, Colby co-founded and led CrowdStorage. He scaled CrowdStorage to serve over 1,000 customers, including Western Digital and Vivint. Colby was also responsible for strategic partnerships and new growth opportunities at Vivint Smart Home, North America's leading smart home service provider, and established partnerships with Best Buy and Airbnb.

ChainCatcher news, decentralized cloud infrastructure provider Aethir has partnered with AI computing economic layer GAIB and cloud service provider GMI Cloud, which focuses on AI and AGI, to integrate the H200 Tensor Core GPU into its decentralized computing ecosystem. This marks the first production deployment of the H200 GPU in the Web3 space, providing high-performance computing technology for enterprises and developers.Through this initiative, Aethir, GAIB, and GMI Cloud will offer enterprise clients the powerful computing capabilities needed to handle demanding GPU tasks, including large language model (LLM) training and AI inference.GAIB introduces a new type of yield asset supported by real AI cash flow. GMI Cloud stakes physical H200 GPUs on the GAIB network and then re-stakes them to Aethir, making these computing resources available to anyone who needs them. In the future, GAIB will tokenize these GPUs and their yield on-chain. This will enable users to directly invest in, trade, and own GPUs as assets. By purchasing GPU NFTs, users can earn rewards and yields generated by the underlying GPUs that support Web2 and Web3 AI demands.The H200 Tensor Core GPU is the latest high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) designed to accelerate AI and machine learning workloads. The H200 is built on the Hopper architecture and offers improvements in memory capacity, bandwidth, and computational efficiency compared to its predecessor, the H100. Additionally, this collaboration will make GPU resources more accessible and cost-effective on a global scale.

ChainCatcher news, according to a press release, Web3 data and AI company Validation Cloud announced that it has raised $10 million in funding from True Global Ventures. The company plans to use this funding to expand its AI products and achieve seamless access to Web3 data.According to the introduction, the company's product platform consists of three parts: staking, node API, and data and AI. In terms of staking, Validation Cloud's staked assets have exceeded $1 billion. Some of Validation Cloud's clients include Chainlink, Aptos, Consensys, Stellar, and Hedera.