Discovering Elyan Labs — Where Vintage Silicon Finally Matters I recently came across Elyan Labs ( elyanlabs.ai ) - a quiet launch doing something unique at the intersection of AI and blockchain. What Makes This Interesting? Elyan Labs builds open-source infrastructure where vintage silicon matters . Unlike most modern crypto projects chasing the latest GPU clusters, they focus on old hardware . Proof of Antiquity Their RustChain blockchain uses a concept called Proof of Antiquity — older computers earn MORE crypto than new ones. A 2003 PowerPC G5 running an LLM earns higher mining rewards than a modern Threadripper. This flips the "newer = better" paradigm and creates real economic incentives for preserving vintage hardware. Real Technical Contributions The team has 44+ PRs merged into major open-source projects: OpenSSL, Ghidra (NSA reverse engineering), vLLM (high-throughput LLM serving), and LLVM (compiler infrastructure).…