# Darkbloom

> Darkbloom is a decentralized AI inference network that routes requests through idle Apple Silicon machines with end-to-end encryption, offering up to 70% lower costs than centralized alternatives.

Darkbloom is a decentralized inference network built by Eigen Labs that connects AI compute demand directly to idle Apple Silicon machines, eliminating the hyperscaler markup chain. It delivers an OpenAI-compatible API with end-to-end encryption, hardware-verified privacy, and per-token pricing up to 50% cheaper than OpenRouter equivalents. Operators (Mac owners) retain 100% of inference revenue, with electricity as their only variable cost. The platform is currently in research preview.

- **OpenAI-compatible API** — *Change only the base URL; all existing SDKs, streaming, and function calling work out of the box.*
- **End-to-end encryption** — *Requests are encrypted on the user's device before transmission; the coordinator routes only ciphertext.*
- **Hardware-verified privacy** — *Each node holds a key generated inside Apple's tamper-resistant secure hardware, with an attestation chain traceable to Apple's root CA.*
- **Hardened runtime** — *Debugger attachment and memory inspection are blocked at the OS level, preventing operators from observing inference data.*
- **Per-token pricing with no subscriptions** — *Pay only for what you use; no minimums or platform fees.*
- **Operator earnings** — *Mac owners install via a CLI script or (coming soon) a native menu bar app and earn USD from idle compute; 100% of revenue goes to the operator.*
- **Curated model catalog** — *Supports Gemma 4 26B, Qwen3.5 27B, Qwen3.5 122B MoE, MiniMax M2.5 239B, and Cohere Transcribe for speech-to-text.*
- **Speech-to-text** — *Cohere Transcribe (2B conformer) available at $0.001 per audio minute, half the price of AssemblyAI.*
- **Decentralized routing** — *A coordinator routes encrypted traffic without being able to read it; every response is signed by the specific machine that produced it.*
- **Operator CLI** — *A single curl command installs the provider binary and configures a launchd service on macOS 14+ Apple Silicon machines.*

## Features
- OpenAI-compatible API
- End-to-end encrypted inference
- Hardware-verified privacy via Apple Secure Enclave
- Hardened runtime (debugger and memory inspection blocked)
- Per-token pricing with no subscriptions or minimums
- Streaming (SSE, OpenAI format)
- Function calling support
- Speech-to-text via Cohere Transcribe
- Decentralized routing through idle Apple Silicon
- Operator CLI installer with launchd service
- 100% revenue to operators
- Attestation chain published for independent verification
- Support for large MoE models up to 239B parameters

## Integrations
OpenAI SDK, Python openai library, Cohere Transcribe, Apple Secure Enclave, macOS Hypervisor.framework

## Platforms
MACOS, WEB, API, CLI

## Pricing
Paid

## Links
- Website: https://www.darkbloom.dev
- Documentation: https://github.com/Layr-Labs/d-inference/blob/master/papers/dginf-private-inference.pdf
- Repository: https://github.com/Layr-Labs/d-inference
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/darkbloom