ComputeFlux: The First OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway for Polkadot

Ecosystem
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Hello Polkadot community,

I am Dr.Cao, the founder of AIWeb3 DAO, and I would like to share a new project incubated from the DAO for community feedback: ComputeFlux: The OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway for Polkadot.

AIWeb3 DAO has been active in the ecosystem for several years through Chinese-language community building, education, AMAs, ecosystem support, and practical tooling. With ComputeFlux, we are now trying to take the next step: building a real AI product and infrastructure layer that can bring more Polkadot developers and users into AI-native use cases.

ComputeFlux is designed to make AI infrastructure easier for the Polkadot ecosystem to access. The idea is simple: provide OpenAI-compatible APIs, multi-model routing, Polkadot wallet authentication, and Polkadot-native payment flows, while using TEE-based secure compute and Polkadot as the public coordination and settlement layer.

In short, we are trying to build a practical bridge between:

  • AI product access
  • Web3 identity and payment
  • trusted execution
  • Polkadot-native infrastructure

A few points that may be especially relevant to the community:

  • The ComputeFlux website is already live: https://computeflux.ai/
  • Early users can already log in with email or Web3 wallet
  • We have already open-sourced and deployed a smart contract stack on Polkadot testnet: GitHub - computeflux/revive-contract · GitHub
  • The proposal is intentionally conservative in budget and structured as a 4-month implementation phase
  • A large share of the requested support is intended to go directly toward public ecosystem usage credits, so Polkadot developers and users can actually test and use the product

The core deliverables in this phase include:

  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Multi-model routing
  • Polkadot wallet authentication
  • DOT payment
  • dotUSD payment
  • Compute provider integration
  • SDK
  • Documentation

Longer term, we also want to explore directions such as:

  • x402
  • agent-native payment
  • JAM integration

I am sharing the full proposal here for feedback before broader submission and discussion. I would especially welcome comments on:

  • whether this feels useful for the Polkadot ecosystem
  • whether the Polkadot integration is explained clearly
  • whether the delivery scope feels reasonable
  • what developers or users in the ecosystem would most want to test first

I also want to use this post as an open invitation:

  • If you are a Polkadot developer, I would love for you to join internal testing and help us improve the API, wallet flow, and product experience
  • If you are a community member, your feedback on usability, onboarding, and product direction would be very valuable
  • If you are interested in helping us build the community around ComputeFlux, I would welcome collaboration on AMAs, discussions, and ecosystem outreach
  • If you are an ecosystem partner or contributor who can help support testing resources, including AI credit or token-based access support, I would also be happy to connect

Community links:

I’m attaching the full proposal below and would sincerely appreciate feedback from the community.

Thank you.

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Is ComputeFlux available for use now? How do developer
s utilize it?

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Thanks for asking!

We’re currently in the early testing phase. ComputeFlux has already been deployed to the Polkadot testnet for integration testing, which is actually how we discovered this issue. We’re validating the infrastructure before opening it up more broadly.

From a developer’s perspective, our goal is to make ComputeFlux as simple to use as existing AI APIs. Developers will be able to use an OpenAI-compatible API, so in many cases they can switch providers by changing the base URL and API key rather than rewriting their application.

We’re actively looking for early developers and ecosystem partners who are interested in testing, providing feedback, or integrating AI capabilities into their Polkadot applications. If you are interested, please join our waitlist: https://computeflux.ai/ and stay tuned, we are going to share more updates in the near future!

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I’m already on the waitlist. From what I’ve seen in the overview, what AI models are available with this project, and how much does it cost?

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There are two different ways to join the waitlist, email and wallet, would that be the same? Do I have to use the wallet to join?

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Thanks for joining the waitlist! We really appreciate the support.

Our goal is to make ComputeFlux an OpenAI-compatible AI compute layer, so developers can access multiple models through a single API without changing their existing workflows.

For the initial release, we’re focusing on supporting popular open-weight models (with more being added over time), and we will also support other AI models in the near future.

On pricing, during the testnet phase, you only need to get the testnet tokens from Polkadot testnet, so the price is 0, you can use it as much as you want, we do want to have more dev to join and test our product!

We’ll be sharing the supported model list, pricing, and API documentation as we get closer to the beta launch. Since you’re already on the waitlist, you’ll be among the first to receive those updates.

Out of curiosity, which models are you hoping to use most (e.g., Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, Gemma, or others)? Your feedback will help us prioritize support.

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Great question!

No—you don’t need a wallet to join the waitlist.

We designed it this way because we want to welcome both traditional AI developers and Web3 users. Email login users would have a wallet address as well, we will support both web2 and web3 users

If you’re not using crypto today, just signing up with your email is perfectly fine.

Our goal is to make ComputeFlux accessible whether you’re coming from the AI world, the Web3 world, or both.

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Can AI tokens be purchased with DOT? That’s absolutely awesome!

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I am new to the Polkadot eco, what can I do with my DOT token?

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Yes, we plan to support DOT as the payment option to buy the token, we want to increase the adoption of DOT in the eco.

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You can use the DOT token to buy the AI token and future applications built on the computeflux!

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ComputeFlux Early Progress Update

It’s been a few days since we opened the early waitlist.

Current stats:

  • :busts_in_silhouette: Early users: 11
  • :wrapped_gift: Points distributed: 4,500
  • :link: Referrals: 11

This is still a very early prototype, but we’re happy to see people beginning to test the idea.

Over the next few weeks we’ll focus on:

  • improving the OpenAI-compatible API
  • adding more models
  • build on the new testnet
  • prepare for the beta test

We’d also love feedback from the Polkadot community.

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This is a really important factor.

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Thank you! Have you already tried to join the waitlist? any question on how to join it?

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Hi everyone,

It’s been about a week since we introduced ComputeFlux on the Polkadot Forum, and we wanted to share a quick progress update.

We’ve been focused on turning the initial vision into something developers can actually use.

:rocket: What We’ve Built

Since our announcement, we’ve completed several important milestones:

While the current API is still for internal testing, it’s an exciting milestone because it validates the core developer experience we’re aiming for:

One OpenAI-compatible API, multiple AI models, and eventually decentralized compute providers.

:speech_balloon: We’d Love Your Feedback

If you’re building AI applications on Polkadot:

  • Which models would you like us to support first?
  • What would make a decentralized AI gateway genuinely useful for your application?
  • Are there developer tools or SDKs you’d like to see?

We’re building ComputeFlux in public, and community feedback will help shape the next stage of development.

Thanks again for all the support so far!

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We’ve also been following the MiniJAM proposal with great interest.

One aspect that particularly caught our attention is the idea of AI-assisted acceptance and off-chain worker coordination. As we’re building ComputeFlux, an OpenAI-compatible AI gateway powered by decentralized compute, we’re exploring how AI infrastructure could eventually integrate with ecosystems like MiniJAM.

We shared some of our thoughts here:

https://x.com/cao_lab/status/2076882213329944679

We’d also love to hear from the MiniJAM team whether projects like ComputeFlux could participate in the upcoming testnet as early infrastructure builders.