Lilypad x PoscidonDAO

Alison HaireAlison Haire
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Lilypad is proud to announce a major partnership with PoscidonDAO, a visionary force in decentralized science (DeSci) building infrastructure and incentives for planetary-scale, open research.

Together, we are unlocking a new paradigm for community-aligned scientific discovery and decentralized, verifiable AI.

This isn’t just another partnership: it’s the convergence of two pioneering ecosystems solving real-world challenges through compute, coordination, and credibility.


🌟 Details of Partnership - Synergistic Strengths

Lilypad provides:

  • A decentralized compute layer designed for AI workloads: model hosting, inference, and agent workflows

  • Modular APIs, onchain job execution, and blockchain-native proof-of-compute

  • A growing library of machine learning models and agentic tooling for public-good science applications

PoscidonDAO brings:

  • Deep expertise in DeSci infrastructure, research coordination, and Web3-native scientific funding

  • A vibrant builder and contributor community focused on regenerative health, science, and AI

  • Flagship projects like weCura, designed to make decentralized medical AI accessible, transparent, and impactful

Together, we are setting the foundation for a permissionless, collaborative, and evidence-backed approach to decentralized science at scale.


πŸ”§ Practical Synergies (Short-Term)

  • Lilypad will serve as the compute layer for PoscidonDAO’s upcoming AI-powered projects, starting with weCura

  • Researchers and contributors in PoscidonDAO can now deploy models and workflows on Lilypad's decentralized inference engine

  • Shared infrastructure tooling, co-branded documentation, and public demos of science running onchain

Use cases available now:

  • weCura: a decentralized platform for trusted medical AI, executed with Lilypad-backed verifiability

  • Integration with Rare compute to amplify access to GPU supply for scientific modeling

  • New experiments using Lilypad to run, benchmark, and publish reproducible compute pipelines in the open


πŸš€ Roadmap Collaboration (Mid-Term)

Over the coming months, Lilypad and PoscidonDAO will:

  • Build an onchain AI research registry using verifiable Lilypad compute

  • Co-develop a model standard for publishing, funding, and validating open science algorithms

  • Launch public quests, hackathons, and contributor bounties for AI+science innovation

  • Expand weCura’s capabilities across image-based diagnostics, language models, and agentic workflows

What this unlocks:

  • Credible, traceable, permissionless compute for DeSci

  • A path for research DAOs and contributors to publish inference-ready models backed by transparent results

  • Scalable coordination between GPU supply, open-source algorithms, and incentivized research goals


πŸ“ˆ Strategic Value - Benefits for the Ecosystem

Why this matters:

  • Scientific research is compute-intensive and credibility-constrained. Lilypad and PoscidonDAO solve both.

  • By combining AI-native infrastructure with DeSci-native governance and coordination, we make open science scalable and sustainable

  • It aligns communities, capital, and computation in a single, public pipeline

Benefits for Web3/OSS:

  • Stronger bridges between DePIN, DeSci, and AI ecosystems

  • Model and workflow standardization for open-source researchers

  • A new market for verifiable research outputs onchain

Benefits for builders and users:

  • Researchers can deploy jobs without centralized gatekeepers

  • Compute providers can directly support science workloads

  • Communities can co-own and coordinate progress in health, climate, and biological discovery


🌍 Long-Term Vision – Broader Narrative & Ecosystem Thesis

This partnership sets the tone for how AI and science can evolve through decentralized infrastructure.

It reflects Lilypad's core mission: making permissionless compute a public good. And Poscidon's mission: restoring trust and accessibility in scientific progress.

Together we will:

  • Power regenerative AI in medicine, climate, and bioscience

  • Set best practices for reproducible, open compute-backed research

  • Establish a new norm: science and AI that is peer-reviewed by code and executed transparently

This is a blueprint for a new knowledge economy.


πŸ“… Future Outlook / Looking Ahead

Immediate next steps:

  • Co-announce partnership and initial integration plans

  • Begin onboarding contributors to use Lilypad for weCura and related Poscidon initiatives

  • Launch a public roadmap and joint technical showcase

Long-term:

  • Expanded DeSci + AI compute economy with bounties, incentives, and shared infrastructure

  • Coordination across DePIN alliances and open science DAOs

  • A thriving, verifiable, and permissionless research landscape powered by compute-as-a-public-good


πŸ” Explore PoscidonDAO: https://www.poscidondao.com

🌎 Deploy DeSci Compute on Lilypad: https://lilypad.tech

#DeSci #Lilypad #PoscidonDAO #weCura #VerifiableCompute #DecentralizedScience #AIForGood #DePIN #ComputeForScience

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Alison Haire
Alison Haire

Let's talk about the real things. Founder @ Lilypad Compute Network prev-@Protocol Labs | @Filecoin | @Lilypad_Tech PM | Advisor @GodwokenRises | prev-@IBM TechJam Podcast Co-Host | coder, engineer, dog lover πŸ•, global citizen 🌏, entrepreneur πŸ‘©β€πŸ’», aspiring francophone πŸ₯