Openfabric Layer 1

Openfabric describes itself as a layer-1 network for artificial intelligence: a planetary-scale infrastructure for building and connecting decentralized AI applications. The platform combines blockchain, cryptography and purpose-built infrastructure to provide a foundation on which AI applications ("AI-Apps") can be created, deployed and consumed without the infrastructure demands and technical expertise that the company says would otherwise be required.

The network is organized around four participant roles. Service consumers are end users seeking to solve business problems or add an intelligence layer to their products; AI innovators build the algorithms and services; infrastructure providers contribute the hardware capacity needed to run and train models; and data providers supply the datasets used for training and testing. Additional community roles promoted on the company's site include validators securing network operation, ambassadors and promoters. Openfabric also operates an AI Apps marketplace intended to host a suite of AI tools, with a number of listed applications marked as forthcoming, and publishes an ongoing blog covering topics such as retrieval-augmented generation, LLM evaluation and AI in drug discovery.

Business model

Openfabric positions itself as protocol and marketplace infrastructure: AI innovators build and monetize AI-Apps on the network, infrastructure providers rent out computing power, data providers publish data, and validators secure network operation, with end users consuming AI services through the marketplace.

Latest developments

The company has published a roadmap for its decentralized AI ecosystem and continues to release blog content through early 2026, including posts on free AI content tools in its marketplace (February 2026), LLM evaluation methodologies (January 2026) and AI in drug discovery (January 2026). A partnership with Reef to apply AI to Web3 dApps has been announced.