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\section{Conclusion}
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\label{sec:conclusion}
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The centralized cloud model treats providers as data custodians who
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extract rent from switching costs. The Lux provider model treats
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providers as service markets competing on quality, with users retaining
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ownership of their keys, their data, and their exit rights.
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The key contributions of this paper are:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item \textbf{Five-role provider taxonomy.} Relay, storage, gateway,
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recovery, and compute as separable, composable service roles, none of
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which require custodial access to user data.
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\item \textbf{Surveillance-free reputation.} A provider reputation
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protocol based entirely on verifiable on-chain signals---receipt
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completion, stake tenure, slashing history, proof-of-service---that
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requires no inspection of user traffic.
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\item \textbf{Chain-enforced SLAs.} Service level agreements as smart
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contracts with automatic stake-backed penalties, replacing the legal
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fiction of centralized SLA credits.
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\item \textbf{Resource markets.} Continuous double-auction markets
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for inference, storage, bandwidth, recovery, and gateway services
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with second-price settlement and EIP-1559-style dynamic pricing.
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\item \textbf{Provable portability.} A formal proof that users can
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switch providers with zero data loss and bounded downtime, even under
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Byzantine fault assumptions.
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\end{enumerate}
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The decentralized cloud is not a replacement for AWS. It is a different
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category of infrastructure: one where the user is sovereign, the provider
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is a vendor, and exit is not a migration---it is a market transaction.
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\begin{thebibliography}{99}
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