DOCKHIVE: The Sovereign Infrastructure Coordination Layer for the AI Era

DOCKHIVE: The Sovereign Infrastructure Coordination Layer for the AI Era presents the architecture, design principles, and implementation of Dockhive, a decentralized enterprise cloud platform designed to coordinate globally distributed compute, storage, networking, and AI infrastructure. The paper examines the limitations of centralized cloud computing; including vendor lock-in, infrastructure fragmentation, data sovereignty challenges, and resilience - and proposes a distributed infrastructure model that combines cloud-native services with decentralized orchestration. It covers Dockhive's system architecture, workload coordination mechanisms, enterprise deployment model, security considerations, economic incentives, and integration with the Necter Network. The paper also explores applications across AI, enterprise cloud, regulated industries, and sovereign digital infrastructure while outlining future research directions for distributed cloud computing.