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Inference Farming: The Next Yield Farming Wave
'Inference farming' may be the successor to perps yield farming, as decentralized AI inference platforms will accrue revenues to token holders the way Hyperliquid channeled trading fees to HLP/HYPE participants. Open-source models like Kimi K3 reaching frontier performance at reduced cost are the catalyst, with decentralized inference networks able to price 30%-plus below centralized providers as a result. Farmers participate by renting GPUs and contributing compute to these networks. Early project picks named include Dolphin AI, Bittensor subnet 53 (Engy), and AntSeed AI. A quoted thread identifies settlement standardization, reference pricing, and compute derivatives (futures and forwards) as the largest unaddressed gaps across the inference capital markets stack.
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