Bless Incentivized Testnet Launch: The world’s first shared computer
We’re delighted to announce the release of our incentivized compute testnet, and the launch of Bless. In this phase, Bless users will be able to run our Chrome Extension Node, a straightforward browser extension, enabling you to automatically provide compute power to the websites, services and applications through the everyday devices you have at home.
The testnet will be launching on Solana and is live now at bless.network.
Bless is the world’s first shared computer, a network of everyday devices used to support AI projects and high-demand computing tasks, automatically turning users into operators and creating a circular internet economy. This means key internet infrastructure like AI inference, data processing and web-hosting won’t be in the hands of big companies with huge data centers — but in the hands of regular people, taking back control of how the internet works and who it rewards.
By harnessing the power of millions of personal devices, Bless makes the internet more accessible and open for everyone to build and innovate.
Available across any device that can run Google Chrome, users are able to contribute resources to multiple websites, decentralized applications and services simultaneously. Users accrue ‘Time’ in our testnet, but in the mainnet, users would accrue rewards both in the form of Bless’ native currency and application- or site-specific rewards.
The Node is an excellent starting point for Web 2 and Web 3 users alike — it requires no more than a stable internet connection, and is designed with accessibility in mind. A powerful machine is not required — even if your device is decidedly last-gen, you can still take part and contribute to the world’s first shared computer.
Once users have the Node up and running, Bless’ Automatic Orchestration system matches their devices to the workloads best suited to their device capabilities, determined by factors including hardware specifications, internet speed and geolocation. Community power is applied throughout — major workloads means more Nodes working in concert, allowing complex tasks to be tackled at a rapid cadence with reduced latency.
Bless, previously known as Blockless, was co-founded by Derek Anderson, formerly CTO at Akash Network, Butian Li, formerly COO at Wabi and NGC Ventures, Michael Chen, formerly a researcher at Binance Labs and Liam Zhang, formerly a researcher at NYU. Bless raised $8m in 2024 from M31 Capital, NGC Ventures, Interop and Frachtis amongst others.
Mainnet is planned for Q1 2025.
More information can be found at bless.network and at discord.gg/blessnetwork.
Stay Blessed.
