AI and DeSci: The Potential of Infrastructure Behind the Narrative of Bull and Bear Markets

Within a week after Trump won the US election, despite Bitcoin rising over 20%, meme coins went wild again; however, during the past six months of low activity, the market seemed to be dominated by the narrative of "the lack of solid support in the crypto industry." At that time, fields like the Depin industry were still under construction, and some subfields like cloud computing were still quite far from genuine large-scale adoption. However, amidst the speculation frenzy for meme coins, the DeSci concept unexpectedly gained renewed popularity. It is undeniable that each new concept faces speculation and hype in its early stages; DeSci is no exception. However, after years of development in the blockchain industry, it is time to consider how to build applications that benefit humanity.

AI and DeSci

At the beginning of last year, the AI revolution led by ChatGPT injected new narrative power into this bull market. The new paradigm consensus that "AI represents advanced productive forces, and blockchain represents the redistribution and integration of advanced production relationships" quickly sparked enthusiastic discussions in the community, becoming one of the new narratives on the eve of the bull market's arrival. Driven by this trend, projects like Bittensor and fetch.ai rapidly emerged as leaders of this concept.

Moreover, with the gradual recovery of the cryptocurrency market in September this year, meme coins surrounding the AI concept are also experiencing a wave of launch frenzy due to $Goat. Small teams or even individuals only need to develop AI Agents with specific functions, whether it is AI trading or AI virtual companionship, and then nurture their own community and fan base—if done well, it only takes 1 week; finally, through the launch of a meme coin with the same name "to earn profits."

The concept of DeSci can be traced back to the last bull market, but its presence in the crypto industry has always been weak due to the long cycle of "Science" in Crypto+Science. The real breakthrough began on November 8 when a trading platform invested in BIO Protocol, marking its first foray into the decentralized science ( DeSci ) field. Within a week of the announcement, related activities were held in Bangkok, discussing insights on DeSci, with hopes of seeing 1,000 DeSci projects next year. Since then, both official and personal social media have repeatedly mentioned DeSci. This has led to a surge in the popularity of DeSci concept meme coins; within just a few days, multiple hot coins emerged from the DeSci concept meme coin, such as $uro and $rif linked to single drug launches, as well as $SciHub for donations to the world’s largest open-access paper platform, Sci-Hub, with the total market value of related concepts exceeding $800 million.

However, good narratives are not only reflected in short-term popularity but also require long-term infrastructure construction to achieve real application scenarios. The most essential foundational support for AI—computing power resources—through Depin cloud computing for idle computing power scheduling is still in the development stage, with limited large-scale adoption, and the cost, stability of the computing environment, and response speed have not yet been effectively validated in the market.

The core technology behind DeSci—decentralized storage, has been proven since the development of the IPFS protocol, which is more cost-effective and secure compared to traditional centralized storage solutions; currently, the solutions have matured relatively well. It can be said that the infrastructure for DeSci is already in place, and now it just requires more people to recognize and adopt the concept of decentralized storage.

Is the DeSci concept still more speculative than practical?

At this year's Web3 Carnival in Hong Kong in April, I communicated with several project teams silently working in the DeSci track. They all expressed that it is necessary to be mentally prepared for "long-termism". At this stage, it can only be said that DeSci has just been introduced to users' perspective, and we are still in the planning phase, far from building a glorious Rome.

DeSci, or Decentralized Science(, promotes global open access to research data through distributed storage technology, reducing the single control of data by governments or institutions, and avoiding issues of data leaks, loss, and malicious tampering that can arise from centralized storage. This model not only makes scientific research activities open and transparent but also allows researchers worldwide to freely share resources. Additionally, DeSci employs smart contracts and DAOs to improve the transparency and efficiency of research funding, assisting scientists in raising the necessary funds for their research. This fundamentally changes the traditional source structure of research funding and greatly enhances the efficiency of fund utilization.

In summary, the DeSci model achieves innovation in two areas: 1. Fundraising is realized through the launch of tokens, with the currently trending $rif and $uro both raising funds for the development of two drugs behind them through the launch of meme coins. 2. Research data storage is transferred from centralized servers to a decentralized and permanently immutable blockchain.

"Decentralized Science ) DeSci ( has successfully introduced meme coin liquidity into universities and laboratories around the world, supporting real scientific research." The response from the founder of BIO Protocol also reveals the essence of DeSci: leveraging the speculative psychology of the crypto market to accelerate the realization of value in the research field and more practical applications.

Currently, the popularity of the DeSci concept is mainly supported by the wealth effect driven by memes. Due to a brief period of massive exposure, the industry's development is intertwined with market sentiment. However, the research field requires continuous large-scale funding and simultaneously faces high risks and high failure rates, which contrasts with the characteristics of short-term speculation and rapid liquidity exhaustion seen in memes.

Therefore, in the short term, it will lead to a large number of speculators entering the field, wanting to use this as a gimmick to launch project financing, aiming for "financing equals profit" rather than genuinely investing in scientific research. As a result, after a brief period of popularity, DeSci will enter a phase of eliminating the false and preserving the true, gradually cultivating users' understanding of DeSci during the educational market process, and only then can it truly achieve the goal of "utilizing crypto finance to drive the monetization of research results."

Currently, it seems that the demand for data storage and on-chain proof behind DeSci is extremely huge. If DeSci can leverage the meme hype to break boundaries and effectively establish a mature business model, then decentralized storage will become the infrastructure in the DeSci field, and this stable and enormous demand will greatly promote the development of the decentralized storage ecosystem.

) The development of decentralized storage has matured, and the infrastructure behind DeSci should not be underestimated.

Decentralized storage has gone through several stages of development, from the early Storj, to Filecoin, Arweave, and the IPFS protocol behind them. An analysis in May 2023 pointed out that decentralized storage is on average about 78% cheaper than centralized storage, with this difference reaching up to 121 times in enterprise-level data storage. Additionally, decentralized storage has significant advantages in terms of data security, privacy, and reliability. However, despite some Web2 clients beginning to adopt decentralized storage solutions like Filecoin and Arweave, centralized storage, which offers a more intuitive user experience and a mature product system, still dominates the market. Moreover, the limitations of Filecoin in programmability and permanent data storage, along with the relatively high costs associated with Arweave's focus on "permanent storage," remain unresolved pain points in the industry.

In April last year, a trading platform launched BNB Greenfield, marking a new height in decentralized storage. The biggest feature of Greenfield is to provide a decentralized storage infrastructure for the entire BNB Chain ecosystem, enabling users and decentralized applications ###DApp( to create, store, and exchange data that they fully own. Through the native cross-chain bridge with BSC, users can freely transfer BNB between BSC and Greenfield, thus conveniently interacting with DApps built on Greenfield.

Compared to IPFS and Arweave, the advantages of BNB Greenfield lie in its deep integration with BNB Chain, cross-chain support, the combination of decentralized storage and computing capabilities, and low-cost high efficiency. This makes Greenfield more suitable for decentralized finance ) DeFi (, smart contracts, and Web3 application scenarios, with stronger scalability and ecological synergy effects. Envisioning the future, GreenField can be used in the following scenarios, including but not limited to:

Website Hosting: Users can quickly deploy and host websites through the API, simplifying the registration and payment process.

Personal Cloud Storage: Create secure personal cloud storage using a private key, easily upload and download encrypted files.

Blockchain Data Storage: Store BNB Smart Chain and other ecosystem data, reduce latency, and improve availability.

Content Release: Creators store and mirror their works on the BNB Smart Chain, and after the transaction is completed, the buyer can access it.

Social Media: Social media influencers can have full control over content data and publish and profit through decentralized platforms.

Personal Data Market: Provides decentralized data storage and management solutions to ensure the security of personal data.

At the same time, the development of GreenField is also supported by ecological projects. This year, the BNB ecosystem officially launched a community voting event for the most favored projects, dividing the ecosystem into five categories. In the Infra category, 4EVERLAND and BAS, as native infrastructure of Greenfield, are very important components.

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) 4EVERLAND

4EVERLAND is the largest decentralized storage provider in the Greenfield ecosystem. As an official certified storage provider ###SP( and validator, 4EVERLAND offers robust storage resources on Greenfield, while supporting the BNB Chain and opBNB networks, committed to building an efficient decentralized storage network. By integrating the features and advantages of IPFS and Arweave on the GreenField foundation, 4EVERLAND provides a superior storage network integration solution, offering a more user-friendly experience and reducing the difficulty of using decentralized storage.

Its key advantage lies in:

●Dual Role of Storage and Validation: As a Greenfield storage provider )SP( and validator, 4EVERLAND not only provides storage solutions for users but also participates in the Proof of Stake )PoS( mechanism to ensure the security of the blockchain.

●Multi-chain Support and Compatibility: In addition to Greenfield, 4EVERLAND also supports BNB Chain and opBNB.

●Combination of decentralized storage and computing resources: 4EVERLAND provides storage services while utilizing its 4Ever Node to offer users instant access to stored data + computation using idle hardware, achieving more efficient data usage scenarios.

●Flexible Storage Solutions: 4EVERLAND provides a hybrid solution suitable for hot and cold storage, combining IPFS + Arweave/Greenfield storage models to meet different storage needs and is compatible with Web2.

●Decentralized AI Services: Through AI RPC)API standards(, 4EVERLAND provides 100+ model aggregation solutions, offering users efficient AI model invocation services.

●4EVERLAND DWeb Hosting Service plays an important role in the Greenfield ecosystem, providing developers with one-click deployment capabilities, allowing dApp front ends to be quickly deployed to Greenfield storage, and in conjunction with the BNB ecosystem's future plans for RAAS ) Rollup as a Service (, achieving one-click chain initiation functionality.

Currently, 4EVERLAND has over 3 million registered users, with daily active users exceeding 100,000, and has stored 2000 TB in the IPFS ecosystem. In the IPFS ecosystem, it ranks third with 2000 TB. Arweave has 20 TB stored, ranking third in the Arweave ecosystem. Greenfield has daily interaction counts of over 30k, ranking first in the Greenfield ecosystem. In terms of financing, it has received funding and investment support from several well-known institutions.

Recently, 4EVERLAND has collaborated with multiple DeSci project parties to jointly promote the decentralized storage of scientific literature. Some content in DeSci data that is certain and unmodifiable is suitable for permanent storage on Arweave, while data that is continuously updated is suitable for IPFS and GreenField. 4EVERLAND establishes a decentralized storage solution suitable for DeSci by combining IPFS, Arweave, and GreenField, creating cold backup data stored on Arweave and hot data access on GreenField.

) BAS

BNB Attestation Service (BAS) is a standard for the underlying data protocol of BNB, aimed at generating verification information certification to bring tens of millions of trusted private data into the Web3 ecosystem, especially to provide data support for AI. The characteristics of BAS are:

●Decentralized Verification Service: By bringing Web2 and Web3 data on-chain, it provides cross-platform verification services, supporting information from multiple exchanges as well as social media platform data. Moreover, the research data verification services involved in DeSci can also use BAS directly for verification and put the results on-chain.

●User Sovereignty and Data Privacy: Users can create datasets and define data format standards using BAS through the dApp project party, actively uploading data; reducing the need for third parties in data annotation and clarification processes, achieving proactive categorization and standardization of data, and returning it to users to manage their own data sovereignty.

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