# Lattica

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Peer-to-peer video [streaming](https://explorer.gradient.network/) powered by Lattica.
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## From Sentry Nodes to Lattica

During Sentry Node Open Beta, our community helped run one of the world’s largest decentralized connectivity experiments with over 2 billion peer-to-peer connections made across 190+ regions.

That network has evolved into Lattica — a universal data communication protocol.

Built on Gradient’s global peer-to-peer infrastructure, it tackles one of the core challenges in distributed AI: moving data across a heterogeneous, permissionless mesh without centralized intermediaries.

## Why Lattica Matters

As AI becomes more distributed and multi-agent, coordination is just as critical as compute.

Lattica is built to move model weights, inference tokens, and file shards across a global machine mesh. At its core, Lattica powers everything needed to build the future of intelligence—open, agentic, and alive at the edge.

As the universal data motion engine, it ensures data flows fast, securely, and reliably—powering multiple layers of our distributed AI stack: from routing model parameters to coordinating distributed inference and enabling agent communication.

## See Lattica in Motion

Lattica usually runs invisibly, so we put it in motion within the [Gradient Explorer](https://explorer.gradient.network).

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We built a decentralized video streaming experience in one of the most constrained and unpredictable environments: your browser.\
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Read the [blog](https://gradient.network/blog/lattica-universal-data-motion-engine) to learn more.


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