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About Formation
Since 2020 Formation has organised independently operated, data-centre-grade nodes into a fog computing layer so compute sits closer to end users instead of routing back to a handful of hyperscale clouds. Operators contribute hardware and bandwidth, the network schedules work to nodes by availability, geography and latency, and token rewards sustain geographic redundancy so a malicious node cannot tamper with results without losing stake. Nodes report liveness continuously, and one that stays offline is dropped from the pool with its work passed to another node in the region.
The layer serves latency-sensitive workloads such as cloud gaming, connected vehicles and industrial inspection. It differs from centralised cloud by pulling regional burst load off the backbone, and from pure edge devices by keeping data-centre compute density. Its site now leads with the Stratus X1 world model and Sentie agent workforce.
Formation (formation.cloud) is a decentralized fog-computing network for the autonomous age, founded in 2022 and based in Miami, aiming to combine cloud scale with edge responsiveness and provide low-latency compute for AI agents. In 2026 its open-source codebase (formthefog/formation) kept developing, and founders presented the fog-computing and crypto-economic incentive framework in public talks.
Future strategy and roadmap: Formation plans to advance its fog-computing node and compute marketplace, refine core components such as the VM monitor, secure mesh and identity, and grow decentralized edge compute through crypto-economic incentives.
Andrew Smith — Founder; serial entrepreneur who founded VRRB Labs in 2021 and created its Proof of Claim consensus, now leads Formation's fog computing and AI infrastructure.