MEGA commits $30M to launch AI inference market in December

MEGA has committed $30 million to launch an AI inference marketplace in December, aiming to pair decentralized compute supply with demand for running AI models. The platform is intended to broaden blockchain utility by letting participants provide and consume inference capacity through crypto-native rails, with the funding earmarked for bootstrapping the market ahead of launch. The initiative reflects growing convergence between AI compute and decentralized infrastructure, a sector attracting increasing capital as protocols compete to monetize GPU and model-serving capacity. Specifics on supported chains, tokens and fee mechanics were not disclosed in the announcement. What to watch next: which blockchain networks and AI partners MEGA onboards, how inference pricing and settlement are structured, and whether the $30 million is deployed as subsidies, liquidity or ecosystem grants at the December go-live.