October 07, 2025

By Our Correspondent

Theta Network, the leading decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI and media, and IoTeX, the blockchain platform for Real-World AI, has announced a strategic partnership to integrate IoTeX Quicksilver with Theta EdgeCloud. This collaboration unites IoTeX Quicksilver — an AI gateway that verifies, routes, and serves trusted intelligence — with Theta EdgeCloud’s elastic compute capacity, creating a unified infrastructure to power Real-World AI.

Building the Infrastructure for Real-World AI

AI systems need both reliable intelligence from the real world and scalable compute resources. This partnership brings them together:

• IoTeX Quicksilver is the AI gateway for Real-World AI — an infrastructure that routes requests across models, serves trusted intelligence APIs, and ensures data is verified and validated before being used by AI companies.
• Theta EdgeCloud provides the compute backbone, combining thousands of community GPUs with enterprise-grade accelerators.

The first proof-of-concept (PoC) is already live: AI training data from AI labs at some of Korea’s top universities, processed on Theta EdgeCloud and served through Quicksilver AI Gateway. This milestone demonstrates how real-world datasets can be both securely scaled and trusted, creating a blueprint for future Real-World AI applications across industries. By creating a seamless user experience for developers to process and serve AI data, this integration encourages the creation of new AI training data and drives demand for both Quicksilver and EdgeCloud platforms.

IoTeX Quicksilver: The AI Gateway for Real-World AI

Built on IoTeX’s blockchain foundation, Quicksilver connects real-world data, models, and compute into one seamless platform.

Through its routing, validation, and API serving layer, Quicksilver ensures that every request is handled securely and every output is trusted.

For developers and enterprises, it offers:

• A unified API layer to access real-world intelligence.
• Verified and validated data, ready for AI agents and applications.
• Reduced integration overhead and faster prototyping across industries.

Quicksilver transforms fragmented real-world signals into AI-ready intelligence, making it easier for applications and agents to operate with authenticity, reliability, and scale.

“IoTeX’s mission is to make real-world intelligence trusted and instantly usable by AI systems, ” said Raullen Chai, Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX. “Partnering with Theta allows us to combine that data foundation with a powerful decentralized compute layer, enabling a new generation of AI systems that are grounded in the real world, run on community-driven infrastructure, and deliver value across industries.”

Theta EdgeCloud: Decentralized Hybrid Compute

Theta EdgeCloud Hybrid is the world’s first decentralized hybrid GPU platform, combining thousands of distributed community-run NVIDIA GPUs (30/40/50 series), high-end NVIDIA GPUs  (A100/H100) and next-generation AWS Inferentia and Trainium AI chips. This hybrid infrastructure enables academic teams to run large and small scale experiments with greater flexibility, lower costs, and shorter setup times compared to traditional cloud providers. EdgeCloud empowers researchers to train large language models, perform causal and reinforcement learning simulations, and deploy generative AI workloads easily and cost effectively. 

Theta EdgeCloud supports over 40 global customers, used by AI labs at top universities around the world, including Stanford University, University of Oregon, Seoul National University, KAIST, NTU Singapore, and Syracuse University among many others, and top professional sports teams like the NHL’s Las Vegas Knights, NBA’s Houston Rockets, Ligue 1’s Olympique de Marseille and global esports teams FlyQuest and Gen.G

“Theta EdgeCloud was built to democratize access to high-performance compute,”   said Mitch Liu, CEO and Co-Founder of Theta Labs. “integrating with IoTeX’s Quicksilver AI gateway infrastructure allows AI developers and enterprises to pair scalable GPU resources with trusted intelligence, creating a resilient, open, and efficient ecosystem for real-world AI.”

Looking Ahead: Powering the Next Era of Real-World AI

This partnership is just the beginning. Through integration with IoTeX Quicksilver, Theta EdgeCloud becomes directly accessible for Real-World AI applications—making EdgeCloud’s compute not only scalable but also trusted and easy to use, empowering developers to pair verified intelligence with elastic compute. Powered by Theta EdgeCloud’s decentralized GPU network, Quicksilver strengthens its AI gateway with flexible compute capacity, efficiently routing and executing diverse workloads at scale.

By combining trusted real-world intelligence with decentralized, elastic compute, IoTeX and Theta are laying the foundation for AI systems that don’t just react to data—they reason, act, and create value in real time. From autonomous finance and smart supply chains to AI-driven research and industrial automation, they are defining the blueprint for a future where AI operates seamlessly, transparently, and globally—turning real-world data into actionable intelligence that powers industries, economies, and communities worldwide.