How Tangle Verifies Work

How Tangle Verifies Work Day 3 of the Tangle Re-Introduction Series The hardest question in decentralized infrastructure isn't "how do we run computation" but "how do we know computation ran correctly." This post covers what each verification mechanism actually proves, where it breaks down, and how Tangle lets developers wire it all together. Why Not Just Use AWS? Cloud providers cannot cryptographically prove correct execution or slash misbehaving operators. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure have decades of production hardening, legal accountability, and compliance certifications. For most applications, they're the right choice. But traditional infrastructure has structural limitations: Observation risk. Cloud providers have root access to your workloads. Insider threats aren't hypothetical; they're a documented category of breach. For workloads where the data itself is enormously valuable (trading strategies, proprietary algorithms), the risk calculus changes. Jurisdictional exposure. Clo