[...] A “killer” feature of SONM is its ability to “provide IaaS [Infrastructure as a Service] for almost any current cryptocurrency startup or ICO project,” said Tasca. “We can host Ethereum miners or even full nodes, or Storj clients, or whatever. All those startups are competing for users’ computers. SONM can be a platform for all of them. From a user perspective, this gives the ability to swiftly switch between multiple projects with a click of a mouse. Install SONM and turn your computer or mining rig into a test polygon to run different apps.”

According to Tasca, there are several key features of SONM including the ability to buy and sell general purpose computing power on the open market and to make these payments with cryptocurrency. Global IaaS allows users to acquire sizeable pools of resources at will for a desired time period without obligations to renew.

At the moment, the SONM computing power marketplace supports only simple bid/ask orders but more sophisticated features are planned. “Next steps are derivative instruments, such as options and futures,” said Tasca.

It also allows for the development of truly decentralized, scalable, general purpose applications in a PaaS [Platform as a Service] environment. For miners, SONM gives them the ability to use mining equipment to accept and execute the computing tasks for which there is more demand.[...]