MEGA invests $30 million to launch the "Purifying Intelligence" AI inference market on MegaETH.

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MegaETH Foundation undergoes a full upgrade, MEGA remains the only token

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After wrapping up its accelerator program this summer, the MegaETH team launched internal product development. Following months of private exploration, an AI inference platform emerged as the team's priority product.

Why Inference

AI inference is the process by which a trained model handles requests and generates results. Whether asking AI to answer questions, write articles, or write code, every interaction requires inference. The more widely AI is used, the greater the demand for inference. MEGA believes AI inference will become the world's largest market.

By some estimates, the AI inference market has already surpassed $100 billion. Within that, spending on hosted inference services—where providers run models for users to call directly—is projected to reach nearly 20 times its 2022 level by 2025.

"Purified Intelligence" in the Inference Market

While the inference market is growing rapidly, supply remains fragmented and service quality varies widely.

"For AI services of the same caliber, pricing across different providers still varies enormously. We believe those price gaps can be substantially narrowed." — Yilong Li, co-founder of MegaETH

Beyond price, buyers using unfamiliar providers also struggle to assess upfront what risks they're taking on. Users have already encountered issues with relay services—models being swapped out, billing multipliers quietly adjusted, and even conversation records and private information being resold.

In response, MEGA will offer "Purified Intelligence," making AI inference across different providers increasingly comparable and interchangeable, bringing global inference supply into a single competitive market, and using blockchain and cryptographic technology to address needs such as privacy protection and quality certification.

"Access to powerful AI will increasingly shape people's opportunities to learn, create, and grow." — Shuyao Kong, co-founder of MegaETH. "High-quality AI services should belong to everyone."

The platform plans to open to global users in December 2026.

About MEGA

The MegaETH Foundation has now been upgraded to MEGA, with all of its products built on MegaETH. MegaETH will continue to complete key upgrades such as rapid finality and sequencer rotation to support the inference platform.

MEGA is committed to building systems that use cryptography and distributed systems to lower the barriers to using products and services and accelerate full competition in emerging technology markets.

AI inference is only the starting point. The company will continue to seek new product opportunities in AI and crypto while expanding MEGA's utility within the MegaETH ecosystem.

Click here to learn about MEGA's mission.