Interchain

Interchain is designed to democratize cloud computation. Interchain allows individuals to allocate their computer resources to run applications developed by others - in their language of choice - and get paid for it. You can think of Interchain as "AWS Cloud running on individual computers" or "Airbnb of cloud computing". Sharing computing power of individual devices and incentivizing their owner is at the heart of Interchain. There are two major enablers of Interchain: 1. The "financial enabler" is blockchain as a distributed payment mechanism making it possible to transfer funds from app owner's account to the device owner's account. Interchain implement is own version of blockchain to handle transactions. 2. The "technological enabler" is Docker making it possible to package apps that only depend on operating systems and also isolating apps to ensure they only have access to predetermined resources. Interchain relies on Docker to ensure security, limit resource consumed by each app, and measure the resources consumed by each app.

Shahab Helmi, PhD student at UC Denver.