Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
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| author | Chung, Siu Kei Carpio, Francisco Navoichyk, Andrei Valasovich, Siarhei Moore, Jordan Sudaric-Hefner, Slobodan Baker, Daniel Demoor, Thomas Binello, Maurizio Kaul, Christian Wawrzinek, Kai |
| author_facet | Chung, Siu Kei Carpio, Francisco Navoichyk, Andrei Valasovich, Siarhei Moore, Jordan Sudaric-Hefner, Slobodan Baker, Daniel Demoor, Thomas Binello, Maurizio Kaul, Christian Wawrzinek, Kai |
| contents | The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While Web3 offers decentralized solutions, they often sacrifice either scalability, decentralization, or security, which are key elements in the blockchain trilemma. These solutions also struggle with limited access to enterprise-grade hardware and frequently rely on centralized infrastructure. The Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) addresses these issues by creating a multi-tiered, decentralized infrastructure layer. ICN offers a composable service layer, an enterprise-grade hardware resource layer, and a transparent, permissionless HyperNode network for performance enforcement. By strategically decoupling and decentralizing each layer, ICN aims to provide an open, extensively scalable infrastructure that ensures digital sovereignty, eliminates single points of trust, enables service programmability, and offers a decoupled architecture for limitless possibilities in the future internet. |
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| spellingShingle | Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer Chung, Siu Kei Carpio, Francisco Navoichyk, Andrei Valasovich, Siarhei Moore, Jordan Sudaric-Hefner, Slobodan Baker, Daniel Demoor, Thomas Binello, Maurizio Kaul, Christian Wawrzinek, Kai Networking and Internet Architecture The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While Web3 offers decentralized solutions, they often sacrifice either scalability, decentralization, or security, which are key elements in the blockchain trilemma. These solutions also struggle with limited access to enterprise-grade hardware and frequently rely on centralized infrastructure. The Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) addresses these issues by creating a multi-tiered, decentralized infrastructure layer. ICN offers a composable service layer, an enterprise-grade hardware resource layer, and a transparent, permissionless HyperNode network for performance enforcement. By strategically decoupling and decentralizing each layer, ICN aims to provide an open, extensively scalable infrastructure that ensures digital sovereignty, eliminates single points of trust, enables service programmability, and offers a decoupled architecture for limitless possibilities in the future internet. |
| title | Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04620 |