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Lilypad is developing a serverless, distributed compute network that enables internet-scale data processing, AI, ML & other arbitrary computation, while unleashing idle processing power & unlocking a new marketplace for compute.
You can use Lilypad to run AI workload models including Stable Diffusion and Stable Diffusion Video, or you can add your own module to run on the Lilypad Network. Using Lilypads distributed compute nodes, you can build and run your own containerized workloads that require high-performance computing.
Resources
Resource Provider (node) Leaderboard - Lilybit_ Rewards
awesome-Lilypad repo with examples and use cases
Quick Start - Run a Lilypad "Hello World"
Add an AI model to Lilypad
Hardware requirements to run a Lilypad node
Run a Lilypad node
Build a frontend using Lilypad to run AI Inference
Stable Diffusion Video - Text to video on Lilypad
Overview
Lilypad is now at v3: Milky Way Testnet! 🎉 Try it out - we dare you 👨💻
Lilypad provides distributed computational services underpinned by the Bacalhau Project. The network provides infrastructure for use cases like AI inference, ML training, DeSci and more. Lilypad strategically collaborates with decentralized infrastructure networks, such as Filecoin, to formulate a transparent, efficient, and accessible computational ecosystem.
Perform off-chain decentralized compute over data, with on-chain guarantees. Call this functionality directly from a smart contract, CLI, and an easy to use abstraction layer.
The network is actively laying groundwork for multi-chain integration and the deployment of an incentivized testnet.
Find Lilypad on Github or visit the blog.
Objective and problem statement
Lilypad aims to mitigate the challenges predominantly associated with the accessibility of high-performance computational hardware. At present, numerous barriers impede developers and organizations from smoothly integrating projects that require high-performance computing, such as AI technologies, into their applications.
Unlike conventional centralized systems, where access to powerful compute hardware is restricted and costly, Lilypad endeavors to democratize this access. Through its verifiable, trustless, and decentralized computational network, Lilypad extends unrestricted, global access to computational power. By leveraging decentralized infrastructure networks such as Filecoin, Lilypad is strategically positioned to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and accessibility of high-performance computing hardware.
Applications
Perform off-chain decentralized compute over data, with on-chain guarantees, and to call this functionality directly from a smart contract, CLI, API and an easy to use abstraction layer, opens the door to a multitude of possible applications including:
Inference AI jobs
ML training jobs
Invoking & supporting generic ZK computations
Cross-chain interoperability complement to bridge protocols
Utilising inbuilt storage on IPFS
Federated Learning consensus (with Bacalhau insulated jobs)
IOT & Sensor Data integrations
Providing a platform for Digital twins
Supply chain tracking & analysis
ETL & data preparation jobs
Key features
Some of the key features of Lilypad include:
Verifiable Serverless Decentralized Compute Network: Lilypad is a decentralized compute network that aims to provide global, permissionless access to compute power. The Network orchestrates off-chain compute (a global GPU marketplace) and uses on-chain verification (Arbitrum L2 on Ethereum) to provide guarantees of compute success.
Mainstream Web3 Application Support: Lilypad is designed to enable mainstream web3 applications to use its compute network with the Lilypad CLI and Smart Contracts. It aims to make decentralized AI compute more accessible, efficient, and transparent for developers and users.
Open Compute Network: Lilypad is an open compute network allowing users to access and run AI models/other programs in a serverless manner. Module creators and general users can access a curated set of modules or can easily create their own Lilypad module to run an AI model/other program on the network.
Multichain Support: The Lilypad Incentivized Testnet first launched on Arbitrum in June 2024 with plans to go multi-chain in the near future. Supporting multiple blockchain networks will increase the scalability and interoperability of the network, allowing users to choose the blockchain that best suits their needs.
Incentivized Test Net: The Lilypad IncentiveNet is live! The IncentiveNet program provide users with Lilybit_ rewards to participate in running nodes, testing, and improving the network. Learn more by checking out the IncentiveNet Leaderboard.
Decentralization of Mediators: The team also aims to decentralize the mediators in the network. This means that the decision-making process and governance of the network will be distributed among multiple participants, ensuring a more decentralized and resilient system.
What is the Bacalhau Project?
Bacalhau is a peer to peer computation network enabling compute over data jobs like GPU-enabled AI, ML, analytics, data engineering, data science, de-sci and more. With the open-source Bacalhau Project, you can streamline your existing workflows without rewriting by running Docker containers and WebAssembly (WASM) images as tasks. This architecture is also referred to as Compute Over Data (or CoD).
To find out more about it, see the Bacalhau Docs!
Roadmap
Lilypad Linktree - Learn more and join the community!
Previous Versions of Lilypad
Lilypad v1
Lilypad v1 is deprecated
Lilypad v1 is a trustless distributed compute network which leverages Bacalhau and key features of blockchain to enable developers to call arbitrary verifiable compute jobs directly from their smart contracts (or a CLI). Running a node on the network to accept compute jobs is now also possible. Lilypad v1 is currently in early testnet phase and is a custom implementation of Modicum outlined in the paper: "Mechanisms for Outsourcing Computation via a Decentralized Market".
The Lilypad v1 testnet currently runs on an ETH localhost which is name Lalechuza. In future, Lilypad v1 will also run on other chains with the first target being IPC (an advanced scaling solution for blockchain that implements a subnet pattern).
Lilypad v0
Lilypad v0 is not actively maintained or supported
Lilypad (v0) currently enables users to access verifiable, distributed off-chain compute directly from smart contracts. Lilypad v0 is a Proof of Concept project operating as an integration layer between Bacalhau compute jobs and solidity smart contracts. This integration enables users to access verifiable off-chain decentralised compute from DApps and smart contract projects, enabling interactions and innovations between on-chain and off-chain compute. Lilypad v0 does not charge for compute jobs, outside of network running fees (ie. the cost of transactions on the blockchain network it is deployed to). It operates on the Bacalhau public compute network (which is free to use), though it is worth noting that there are no reliability guarantees given for this network (which is something future versions of this protocol will be working to improve\
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