Citrate

Citrate is a decentralized AI infrastructure platform focused on providing verifiable and auditable compute for artificial intelligence workloads. Designed for scenarios where results must be provable and compliant, it allows users to run AI inference and training jobs on their own machines, retaining full control over data and model weights. The platform emphasizes data sovereignty, enabling on-premise and air-gapped deployments so that sensitive information remains within the user's physical or organizational boundaries. Every AI job processed through Citrate generates an exportable receipt, with users able to select the level of proof required—ranging from a committed fingerprint to cryptographic proofs or sealed hardware enclave attestations. Disputed results can be challenged, with the protocol enforcing accountability through slashing mechanisms.

Citrate serves a broad spectrum of users, including institutions in regulated industries that require auditable AI compute, organizations and schools seeking to monetize idle hardware, and developers who need a verifiable network for building AI applications. Institutions can run training and inference inside their own perimeter, holding their own keys and using federated learning to collaborate across sites without sharing raw data. Organizations and public institutions can contribute idle compute resources to the network and earn compensation, while schools can participate at no cost and retain local control over student data. The platform is also accessible to developers through familiar APIs compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic, and offers SDKs for TypeScript and Python. Citrate is built using open specifications, memory-safe Rust, and is supported by over 121 formal proofs.

The platform operates as an open marketplace for AI compute, where independent providers execute jobs and payments settle automatically, eliminating the need for hourly server rentals or vendor lock-in. Data is protected with AES-256-GCM encryption under a quantum-safe key exchange. Compliance features are integral, with claims carrying explicit statuses and review dates; on-premise deployments are available, while certifications such as CMMC and SOC 2 are in remediation and FedRAMP is on the roadmap. Citrate supports a wide range of industries, including defense, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, education, and public sector organizations. Its architecture distributes compute across existing machines in diverse environments, aiming to democratize access to trustworthy AI infrastructure.