io.net was created with the vision of creating a globally accessible, decentralized cloud computing network with the goal of providing affordable, flexible, and permissionless access to compute capacity for builders everywhere. We believe that compute is the most important resource of our generation - it is this generation’s “digital oil”, powering a technological industrial revolution. If compute is “digital oil”, it needs a petro-dollar to act as a transaction and settlement standard for the commodity that powers the most innovative industries of today from AI to autonomous vehicles. io.net is creating that standard, $IO, to be the currency of compute, powering an ecosystem of products and services that enable access to compute as a resource and asset. We're establishing an ecosystem built on top of compute as a currency. This ecosystem provides a suite of tools and services for building, training, and deploying machine learning models - all on chain, powered by Aptos and Solana.