The post Key Insights From David Liberman appeared com. Gonka is redefining decentralized infrastructure by optimizing computational power for AI model training and inference. Unlike traditional centralized cloud providers-often costly, monopolistic, and prone to censorship-Gonka offers a scalable and efficient alternative that channels nearly 100% of its computing resources into meaningful AI tasks. Recently, David Liberman, co-founder of Gonka, joined BeInCrypto for an AMA session to discuss how the platform’s novel consensus mechanism transforms Proof-of-Work into a productive system for AI computation. During the session, David explored why compute power is becoming the new currency, how Gonka bridges the gap between AI and decentralization, and what gives the project the potential to outperform tech giants like AWS, Google, and OpenAI. In this article, we’ll recap the key takeaways from the AMA and unpack how Gonka is pioneering a new era for decentralized AI infrastructure. BeInCrypto: So, for everyone just joining today we’re talking about Gonka, the decentralized AI compute protocol that’s taking on centralized giants and redefining Proof-of-Work for the AI era. So David, let’s start with the big one you’ve said that Gonka is not a company, not a startup, and not even a platform, but rather a network and a protocol. Can you explain what that means in practice? How does Gonka actually function without a traditional team or ownership structure? David Liberman: In practice, everything is governed by consensus of the protocol; there is no foundation or any org controlling the protocol. Miners with their vote control the network. Bitcoin is a great example, how protocols can be governed without traditional structures We’re based in the U. S., where regulators are quite clear that you shouldn’t raise funds to build protocols. Otherwise, the coins are considered securities. We know that many projects outside the U. S. don’t follow those rules, but in our case, we wanted.