ComputeFlux: The First OpenAI-Compatible AI Gateway for Polkadot

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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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