Grid Open the market

Decentralized compute · Robinhood Chain

Rent GPUs straight from the people who own them.

Grid is a compute market with no company in the middle. Hosts list their machines on-chain, you pay ETH into a contract, and the host hands you SSH access directly. Billed by the minute; whatever you don't use comes back.

Open the market Run a host
Payment
ETH, held in escrow
Billing
Per started minute
Platform cut
None in the contract
Every square is a machine someone owns. Copper ones are rented right now.

How a rental works

Three contract calls. Nothing else sits between you and the machine.

  1. listMachine()

    A host lists a machine

    GPU, memory, price per hour and the address of their node go on-chain. The host's own computer serves the rental; Grid stores nothing.

  2. rent()

    You pay the contract, not the host

    You pick the hours you want and send the ETH to the market contract. The host's node sees the rental and starts your container.

  3. endRental()

    Stop whenever you like

    End the rental yourself, or let it run out. The contract pays the host for every started minute and refunds you the rest.

What changes when nobody is in the middle

A rental platform Grid
Your money Held by the company Held by a contract until the rental ends
Billing By the hour, up front By the minute, unused time refunded
Access Through the platform's servers Straight from the host's machine
Who can list Approved providers Anyone, with a bond after a 30-day trial
Who can switch it off The company Nobody. Hosts pause their own machines, that's all

Run a host

Earn ETH from a GPU that would otherwise sit idle.

  • You set the price per hour and are paid for every started minute, withdrawable any time.
  • Each rental runs in its own container on your machine. Renters get SSH, nothing more.
  • Your first 30 days need no bond, with rentals capped at 0.01 ETH each. After that you lock GRID to stay listed.
  • Stopping the node pauses your listing. A running rental's container stays up until it ends.
Linux · Windows · macOS 
$ git clone https://github.com/Grid-Decentralized-Compute/grid
$ cp node/env.example node/.env
$ npm run node
listed as machine #12, reachable at https://gpu.example.com

GRID, the coin

It does one thing.

It is the host bond

Hosts lock GRID to stay listed. The bond is never spent: it waits seven days to come back, and part of it is burned only if a host is proven to have cheated a renter.

It is never a payment

Compute is paid in ETH, always. GRID buys nothing on Grid and is not needed to rent.

It launches on Creora

With the Robinhood Chain launch, on the Creora launchpad. The whole supply goes on the curve; there is no team allocation.

Where it stands