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The future of AI is not just intelligent, it is sovereign. Decentralized machine learning marks a shift from centralized AI monopolies toward systems where individuals and communities can control the data, models, and incentives behind intelligent agents. Hyperion, the AI optimized Layer 2 developed by Metis, is built to support this shift. It offers a high performance foundation for running AI models onchain, where outcomes can be verified, coordinated, and owned by users themselves.
“Centralized companies that own AI data, own us,” said Natalia Ameline, Decentralization Coordinator at Metis, during her recent interview with “All In Crypto” at Consensus 2025.
For Natalia, Hyperion is not just a technical upgrade. It is a response to a deeper problem: centralized control over intelligence itself. She describes Hyperion as infrastructure for a new kind of internet where users govern the intelligence they interact with. That means giving individuals the tools to shape the systems that shape them.
The ethos of "Decentralization Maximalism" reflects Natalia’s vision and the original spirit of crypto. It champions open systems, user sovereignty, and public infrastructure over third-party platform control.
Executing this vision includes not only deploying autonomous agents but anchoring their logic and decisions to transparent, verifiable data onchain, giving society the means to challenge, override, or improve intelligent systems rather than simply accept them.
The MetisSDK is a high performance framework for building AI native blockchains. It supports Solidity, Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade, and flexible deployments. Developers can use it to launch scalable networks for onchain LLM inference, model training, and AI compute resource sharing. This SDK powers the entire Metis ecosystem, including infrastructure like MetisVM, MetisDB, and the Real Time Sequencer.
Projects like Hyperion and LazAI are built on this foundation. Hyperion delivers sub second finality, AI ready contracts, and high throughput using parallel execution. LazAI adds a decentralized inference layer through the Alith agent framework, enabling verifiable and composable AI outputs. Together, they demonstrate how the MetisSDK can unlock real time, onchain artificial intelligence.
At the core of Hyperion’s AI readiness is MetisVM, a custom virtual machine built to support intelligent applications. It enables developers to:
Together, these capabilities transform the blockchain from a passive ledger into an active reasoning engine capable of inference, coordination, and verifiable automation at scale. For a deeper technical dive into the AI features of Hyperion check out our DevRel Pavel’s Youtube video overview here.
As decentralized AI matures, it needs more than compute power. It needs values baked into its infrastructure. With Hyperion, Metis is delivering the tools to build human aligned AI from the ground up. This is not just about ownership. It is about agency. It is about ensuring that the intelligence we create remains answerable to the people it is meant to serve.
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