At Blockchain Life 2025 in Dubai, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov unveiled Cocoon (Confidential Compute Open Network) — a decentralized AI compute network built on The Open Network (TON).

Cocoon will allow GPU owners around the world to contribute computing power for AI inference and get rewarded in Toncoin (TON). Telegram itself will become Cocoon’s first large-scale user, integrating this technology into its Mini Apps and AI tools for its billion-plus users.

Cocoon in a Nutshell

Compute: Decentralized AI tasks running securely across a distributed network of GPUs.

Incentives: GPU miners are rewarded in TON for powering these computations.

Privacy: Data remains encrypted end-to-end — even from the machines processing it.

Goal: To challenge centralized AI infrastructure monopolies like AWS and Azure.

Cocoon represents a privacy-first approach to AI infrastructure, aligning with Telegram and TON’s shared vision of user-owned digital freedom.

The Core Problem of Cocoon

While Cocoon decentralizes AI compute, building real applications requires much more than inference.

Developers still need to:

• Handle user authentication
• Manage data persistence
• Store and serve user-generated content
• Host frontend interfaces
• Securely connect all these components

Cocoon offers a distributed engine for AI workloads — but it doesn’t solve the data and logic layer that connects these models to real users and applications.

The Missing Layer of Decentralized Infrastructure

Telegram will be Cocoon’s first client, embedding it into its vast ecosystem of Mini Apps.

But as the network expands, developers and businesses will be the next wave of adopters.

To participate in that ecosystem — to build AI-powered apps that leverage Cocoon’s decentralized compute — you’ll need a backend that:

• Manages your users securely
• Stores their data without central control
• Authenticates AI access and app permissions
• Scales automatically as your app grows

That’s exactly what Skapi provides. Skapi provides a serverless backend for web apps, purpose-built for the privacy-centric future Cocoon is enabling.

Developers using Skapi get:

Authentication & identity: Secure user accounts without traditional servers

Databases: Structured data storage with private, encrypted access

File hosting: For AI models, assets, and user uploads

Zero DevOps: No configuration, no server maintenance, no central authority

Skapi already supports a decentralized approach to data: users own their data, and developers never need to expose it.

A New Web Stack for Decentralized AI Apps

It’s important to note that Cocoon doesn’t store user data — it only processes it securely.

That means your application still needs a trusted layer to store, recall, and protect user information before and after AI computation happens.

This architecture keeps every layer decentralized, private, and user-owned.

This is what we can start calling Private AI-as-a-Service (PAaaS) — a model where both compute and storage are user-owned and secured.

Developers Build AI Web3 Applications

With Cocoon and Skapi together, developers can finally build truly independent applications:

AI-powered bots that process private data without central servers

Mini Apps that run entirely on decentralized compute and storage

Full-stack businesses where both compute and data belong to the users

Think of Skapi as your bridge into Cocoon’s ecosystem — the part that allows you to manage your users, data, and authentication without betraying the principles of decentralization.

Because if your AI runs on a decentralized GPU network, your users still log in through a centralized database, you’re only halfway free.

That’s where Skapi bridges the gap, enabling developers to build full-stack decentralized apps that align perfectly with Cocoon’s vision:

An internet where AI is private, infrastructure is open, and ownership belongs to the user.

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