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Our weekly Deep Dive is back!
🚀 Mainnet Launch
Nodexo 3.0 is officially launching on Subnet 106, with testnet already live and mainnet going live on June 23rd. This marks the completion of Phase 1 of the roadmap outlined in the whitepaper, bringing the core marketplace and verification systems online.
⚙️ Proof of Hardware
At the heart of Nodexo is Proof of Hardware, a system designed to replace trust with cryptographic verification.
Before a GPU can earn, it is fingerprinted using its physical identifiers and bound to an on-chain identity. Validators then issue continuous timed challenges that only the claimed class of hardware can complete within the required window.
This ensures providers can prove what hardware they operate rather than asking users to trust marketing claims or centralized operators.
💳 Flexible Payments
The launch introduces three ways to access compute.
Users can pay per rental through x402 using only a wallet signature, maintain prepaid balances in TAO or USDC, or consume compute through conviction allowance credits earned from locked subnet tokens.
This flexibility enables both traditional users and autonomous AI agents to access compute through the same marketplace.
🔒 Conviction Allowance
One of the most unique features of the launch is the conviction allowance system.
Participants who permanently lock subnet alpha tokens earn a daily allocation of compute credits proportional to their locked position. The underlying stake remains intact while continuously generating usable compute capacity.
This creates direct utility for token holders beyond speculation and ties network participation to real-world compute consumption.
🧠 Looking Ahead
With the marketplace, Proof of Hardware system, registry contracts, gateway contracts, and conviction ledger now live, Phase 1 is complete.
The next milestone is Phase 2: specialized compute markets operating within Subnet 106, each with their own token while inheriting the same hardware verification model. The long-term vision is a market of markets, all secured by verifiable hardware and ultimately collateralized in TAO.
Stay tuned, more to come!
Welcome to our weekly Deep Dive!
⚙️ Network Growth
The number of GPUs on Nodexo continues to climb. More supply is coming online every day, unlocking greater choice and expanding access to real, verifiable compute across the network.
💬 Community Buzz
Nodexo has been a hot topic in the Bittensor community recently, with conversations zeroing in on a few defining design decisions.
One of the most discussed aspects is Nodexo’s use of Bittensor as a coordination and verification layer. Rather than acting as an incentive engine, validators focus solely on scoring GPU providers through Nodexo’s Proof-of-GPU v3 system.
🚀 Provider Onboarding
Another major point of interest is how simple it is for GPU providers to get started. There’s no need to interact with the Bittensor CLI, manage miner keys, or understand crypto mechanics. Providers onboard directly through the Nodexo frontend and are paid by users for real compute, with Bittensor operating entirely behind the scenes.
🔐 Proof-of-GPU v3
Proof-of-GPU v3 is also drawing attention. Validators dispatch real workloads to GPUs, continuously verify execution, and publish cryptographic proof to Ethereum for public auditability. This allows enterprises and other protocols to independently verify GPU performance and historical reliability before renting capacity.
🧠 The Big Picture
Overall, Nodexo is being seen as a subnet that cleanly plugs into Bittensor for decentralized validation, peer discovery, and consensus — without overloading the protocol with incentives. That architectural choice is what’s driving much of the current discussion.
Stay tuned, more to come!
The number of GPUs on Nodexo has been steadily growing. More supply, more choice, more real, verifiable compute coming online every day.
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When performance can’t wait, neither should you.
Nodexo provides immediate access to B200s and other top-tier GPUs built for training, inference, and demanding compute at scale.
Predictable performance. Zero delays.
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GPU subnets are scaling fast, but @nodex0_ (Subnet 27) just took things to the next level with Nodexo 2.0.
Key upgrades include:
🔥 Proof-of-GPU validation - miners are rewarded based on real performance
🌐 Permissionless GPU network - anyone can join and contribute
🧱 Decentralized GPU Cloud Layer - spare compute becomes a usable marketplace
⚡ Inference Endpoints (coming soon) - developers can leverage the network like a crypto-native AWS/CoreWeave
📊 Enhanced dashboards - clear insights for miners and users
What sets Nodexo apart is its focus on utility: providing a full product layer that transforms GPU compute into real workloads and revenue opportunities, creating tangible value for $TAO.
Nodexo 2.0 isn’t just infrastructure - it’s a scalable, decentralized GPU cloud with a roadmap for real-world applications.
It complements the GPU subnet ecosystem, showing what’s possible when decentralized compute meets accessible, developer-friendly tools.
💡Subnet Spotlight #5💡
Subnet 27 - @nodex0_
The decentralized GPU cloud powering the next era of Bittensor compute.
🚀 What Nodexo 2.0 Is Building
Nodexo is transforming Subnet 27 into a permissionless, decentralized GPU network: a crypto-native alternative to AWS, Runpod, and CoreWeave.
Their mission is simple but powerful: unlock global GPU supply and turn it into useful AI compute.
With the launch of Nodexo 2.0, they’ve moved beyond just rewarding GPUs…
They’re building a full-stack GPU cloud layer on top of Bittensor $TAO.
⚡ Key Features & Breakthroughs (Nodexo 2.0)
1️⃣ Proof-of-GPU (PoGPU) Validation
Rewards are now tied to true GPU performance, eliminating fake supply and giving honest miners the edge.
2️⃣ Permissionless GPU Network
Anyone with hardware can join and compete - fully decentralized, open, and economically sound.
3️⃣ Decentralized GPU Cloud Marketplace
Idle GPUs become usable compute.
This gives Subnet 27 real utility and potential external revenue paths.
4️⃣ Inference Endpoints (Coming Soon)
A full developer layer where builders can run inference directly on Nodexo's network - the closest thing Bittensor has to a crypto-native CoreWeave.
5️⃣ Next-Gen Dashboards
More visibility for miners, operators, and devs - clean metrics, real benchmarking, and transparency.
💰 Why Nodexo Stands Out in the GPU Subnet Ecosystem
Many GPU subnets focus on raw benchmarking.
Nodexo focuses on utility.
By offering a real product layer - cloud compute, APIs, future inference endpoints - they give $TAO real-world traction and a direct link to external demand.
This is what makes Subnet 27 special:
🔥 It’s not just measuring GPUs. It’s mobilizing them.
📣 The Road Ahead
@nodex0_ 2.0 sets the foundation for:
🚀real workloads
🚀real revenue
🚀real adoption from builders outside Bittensor
Subnet 27 isn't competing with other GPU subnets -
it's expanding what’s possible by turning decentralized compute into a practical AI cloud.
Welcome to this week’s update — several pieces are coming together across the stack.
⚡ Proof-of-GPU v3: Now Live
Proof-of-GPU v3 is live and actively validating GPU providers across the subnet. The new protocol introduces continuous, near-instant verification of real GPU compute, establishing PoG v3 as the active proof layer securing the network.
The upgrade is complete, and validators are now operating on the new system, continuously scoring providers based on real, verifiable work rather than episodic checks. This marks a key step toward a more reliable, low-latency compute marketplace built on provable hardware execution.
🧱 Nodexo v2.1.0: Platform Release
Alongside PoG v3, Nodexo v2.1.0 is shipping with a focused set of platform improvements aimed at providers and operators.
🧩 What’s New
This release expands Nodexo’s global readiness and improves day-to-day usability:
• Multi-country onboarding is now supported, allowing users to onboard from their respective jurisdictions.
• Payouts are processed in local currencies, aligning balances and withdrawals with regional standards.
• A new Payouts section provides a clearer view of earnings and activity:
– Total available balance
– Withdrawals
– Connected bank account details
– Transaction history with transparent amounts
Core platform workflows have also been refined:
• Authentication and account flows are smoother and more reliable.
• Payout validation and earnings visibility have been improved.
• GPU listing and instance management are more accurate and responsive.
• Notifications and emails are more consistent.
• UI and overall performance have been tightened across the application.
Several minor bugs across the dashboard and website have also been resolved to improve stability.
🧠 Provider Incentives & Network Expansion
To support growth and real-world testing, 10% of incentives are being allocated specifically to onboarding GPU providers and battle-testing the network end to end.
This incentive push coincides with Nodexo v2.1 and its improved onboarding, local-currency payouts, full payouts dashboard, and smoother GPU management experience.
For miners and operators with GPUs ready to deploy, this is the phase where real usage, real payouts, and real verification begin to converge.
More to follow.
🔥 @nodex0_ 2.0: The lie detector for decentralized GPU compute!
Proves specific GPUs ran real work via PoGv3—cryptographic, time-bound, Ethereum-anchored. Detects fakes, oversubscription. Pure compute marketplace, nothing else. Foundation for real decentralized compute.
Nodexo 2.0 Overview
Nodexo 2.0 focuses solely on verifying bare metal GPUs and VMs in a marketplace, without hosting models or APIs. It uses Proof-of-GPU v3 (PoGv3) for continuous, deterministic proofs tied to GPU timelines, code, and exact times, validated in minutes.
Key Features
Trust Verification: Cryptographically proves compute happened, spotting oversold GPUs, fakes, or inconsistencies.
#SN27 Role: Acts as neutral oracle on $TAO, burning incentives and rewarding honest providers from real demand.
Public Auditability: Batches proofs to $ETH L2 for immutable, verifiable history anyone can check.
Why It Matters
Nodexo enforces trustless decentralized compute by making claims provable and public, solving longstanding issues like forged logs and exaggerated capacity. This builds credible infrastructure for @bittensor , prioritizing evidence over narratives.
Welcome to this week’s update — and this one marks a major milestone.
⚡ Proof-of-GPU v3: Launching Tomorrow
Proof-of-GPU v3 (PoG v3) goes live tomorrow, January 13, bringing a new validation protocol to the subnet and laying the groundwork for Nodexo 2.0. This release introduces a rolling, non-interactive, recipe-based proof system designed to continuously verify real GPU compute with minimal latency.
PoG v3 is about one thing: proving that real hardware did real work, at a specific time, in a way that can be independently verified.
🧱 What PoG v3 Is — and Isn’t
PoG v3 is not an AI cloud, a model host, or a prompt API.
It is a neutral proof layer for pure GPU compute. Bare-metal GPUs and GPU VMs only. No prescribed models, no frameworks, no opaque abstraction layers. If compute runs through the network, PoG v3 produces cryptographic proof tied to a specific GPU and workload.
🔍 How Validation Works
GPU providers continuously execute short, deterministic GPU tasks in the background. These anchors generate cryptographic proofs of compute capability and liveness.
Proofs are aggregated off-chain, verified by validators, and scored continuously. Validation is near-instant, with confirmation typically occurring within 1–2 minutes, without interactive challenges or manual intervention.
🔗 Off-Chain Compute, On-Chain Proof
Providers remain fully off-chain.
They install the Nodexo agent, register hardware off-chain, accept jobs, and get paid directly by users. While jobs run, PoG v3 anchors execute transparently in the background.
Validators handle proof verification and publish public trust signals, so from a provider’s perspective, Nodexo behaves like a modern GPU marketplace — not a mining protocol.
🧠 Trust Without Emissions
With PoG v3, mining emissions are burned.
GPU providers earn from real user demand, not protocol subsidies. SN27 validators no longer act as payout switches; they act as a trust oracle, evaluating PoG v3 evidence and publicly signaling provider reliability.
This aligns incentives around fundamentals: real demand, real pricing, and reputation earned through repeated verification.
⛓️ Ethereum-Backed Verification (Coming Next)
PoG v3 is designed to anchor proof to Ethereum data availability.
Proofs are collected off-chain, batched into epochs, and published via Ethereum DA, making the compute record public, auditable, and difficult to rewrite. This enables independent verification by validators, auditors, enterprises, and other protocols.
🔑 The Bottom Line
Proof-of-GPU v3 launches tomorrow.
It is the foundation for Nodexo 2.0 and for decentralized compute that actually works:
Off-chain GPU compute
On-chain, Ethereum-backed proof
SN27 as a trust oracle
Real compute paid for by real users
This is the base layer we’re putting in place before building anything more complex on top.
More soon.
🚀 Announcing the PoGv3 Validation Protocol
Subnet Release Announcement – v2.4.0
After several weeks of focused work, we’re excited to announce the launch of PoGv3, our new validation protocol, going live on Tuesday, January 13 at 6:00 PM EST. PoGv3 introduces a rolling, recipe-based, non-interactive proof-of-compute system that enables continuous, nearly instant validation of compute across the network.
🔍 How It Works
• Miners continuously generate deterministic cryptographic proofs of compute capability.
• Proofs are posted to an aggregation data-availability layer, where they’re verified (optimistic or ZK) and scored.
• Validation is near-instant, with confirmation typically occurring within 1–2 minutes.
🚦 Rollout & Expected Downtime
• Release time: Tuesday, January 13, 6:00 PM EST
• Expected disruption: Up to 2 hours
• Action required: All miners and validators must update to remain compatible
Upgrade instructions and required versions will be shared ahead of time. The team will be active in the channels during the rollout.
🧪 What’s Launching: Phase 1 + Phase 2
Phase 1 – New Protocol Mechanics
• Rolling, recipe-based, non-interactive validation at the protocol level.
• Near-instant validation of compute capability (1–2 minutes).
• Runs on existing Docker-based PoW workloads for a familiar transition.
Phase 2 – Expanded Participation
• Protocol support for onboarding non-registered miners and compute providers is live.
• Removes the current UID-limited, discovery-only constraint.
• Off-chain registration and onboarding instructions will be released once the network upgrade is confirmed to be operating normally.
📈 Roadmap Confidential Compute (Q1–Q2 2026)
• Extension of PoGv3 to TEE-based confidential compute, supporting confidential Kubernetes (confidential containers) as well as TEE-backed virtual machines.
• Built directly on the PoGv3 architecture without requiring another protocol redesign.
Ethereum Data Availability (Q2 2026)
• Proofs will be anchored to Ethereum data-availability blobs for stronger verifiability and auditability.
As the new year begins, it’s a strong moment for GPU operators to deploy their hardware in an environment built for performance, stability, and scale.
Nodexo gives providers a unified control panel for managing infrastructure, fully transparent and auditable balances, and tools built to optimize earnings, uptime, performance, and long-term sustainability. Onboarding is quick, daily operations are smooth, and the visibility you get into your setup goes far beyond the basics.
Momentum across the network is picking up, and providers are driving that progress. If you’re looking for real clarity and direct operational control, this is a strong moment to get involved.
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We’re skipping this week’s Deep Dive update as the year winds down. Huge thanks to our community for being with us throughout 2025 — we’re looking forward to sharing more in 2026.
Welcome to our weekly Deep Dive for week 50 of 2025!
⚡ Proof-of-GPU 3 Rollout Progress
Over the past weeks, we’ve been advancing Proof-of-GPU 3 through its multi-stage rollout. The protocol introduces recipe-based, non-interactive validation, enabling near-instant verification of compute workloads while running on the same container infrastructure that already powers the network.
From there, the rollout expands through hybrid onboarding, removing previous registration constraints and allowing new compute providers to join, contribute resources, and earn with minimal friction. As the protocol continues to mature, it transitions into confidential compute, extending validation beyond PoW into enclave-backed attestation—all within a single, unified architecture.
While our original timeline targeted Phase 1 for late November, final-stage testing showed that delivering Phase 1 and Phase 2 together creates a stronger and more immediate impact for the network. To support this unified release, we’ve extended the timeline slightly, with rollout now approaching very soon.
🛠️ Platform Stability & Release Momentum
In parallel with protocol development, we’ve continued strengthening the core platform. Nodexo v2.0.1 focuses on performance, stability, and reliability, delivering faster response times and more consistent system behavior through internal optimizations.
This release includes general fixes and performance improvements designed to ensure smoother operation as network activity grows, supported by a short, scheduled maintenance window to guarantee a clean deployment.
🚀 Provider Momentum
For GPU operators, this period represents a strong entry point into the network. Nodexo provides a single, streamlined dashboard for infrastructure management, clear and traceable balances, and tooling built around revenue, uptime, performance, and long-term reliability.
Onboarding remains fast, day-to-day operations stay frictionless, and visibility across deployed resources continues to improve. As the network accelerates, providers sit at the center of that growth—supported by an environment designed for transparency, control, and sustained performance.
More updates ahead—stay tuned!
We’re sharing an update on the upcoming PoG v3 release.
Our original timeline targeted the delivery of Phase 1 by the end of November. As we moved through the final stages, it became clear that bundling Phase 1 and Phase 2 into a single rollout provides a far stronger and more immediate benefit to the network than releasing them separately.
To make this possible, we’ll be extending the timeline by a few more days.
Thank you for your patience.
Nodexo Update Announcement
We're thrilled to announce the release of Nodexo v2.0.1 — built to give you deeper insight, faster access, and smoother control!
📅 Release Details
Version: v2.0.1
Release Date: 10/12/2025
Release Time: 1:30 AM EST
Expected Downtime: 60 minutes
Maintenance Window: 1:30 AM – 2:30 AM EST
✏ Release Notes
🔹 New Features:
No new user-visible features in this release — this update focuses on enhancing stability and performance.
🔹 Improvements:
Improved System Performance – Faster response times and more efficient processing for a smoother user experience.
Enhanced Reliability – Internal optimisations to ensure more consistent and dependable functionality.
🔹 Bug Fixes:
General Fixes – Resolved minor issues to improve overall platform stability.
Performance-Related Fixes – Addressed internal inconsistencies affecting responsiveness.
🔧 Maintenance & Downtime Information
To ensure a smooth transition, scheduled maintenance will take place during the release window. Users may experience temporary downtime during this period. We recommend:
✅ Saving your work and logging out before the maintenance begins
✅ Ensuring you have enough balance for your rentals during this period to avoid any disruptions
Welcome to our Deep Dive for Week 49 of 2025!
⚡ Protocol Rollout Update
Two weeks back, we laid out the trajectory for Proof-of-GPU 3 as it moved into its multi-phase launch. The new protocol begins with recipe-based, non-interactive validation running on the container infrastructure already powering the network, bringing near-instant verification to GPU workloads.
The rollout will widen with hybrid onboarding. This next phase removes previous registration constraints and opens the door for new compute providers to contribute and earn with minimal friction.
Early 2026 marks the transition into confidential compute, expanding the protocol beyond PoW-driven validation into enclave-backed attestation while keeping everything within the same unified architecture.
With testing in its final stretch, POG 3 is tracking toward rollout very soon.
🛠️ Provider Momentum
For GPU operators, this moment is turning into a rare window of opportunity. The platform now offers a unified view of hardware, transparent balances, and tools built directly around earnings, uptime, and performance.
Onboarding is quick, management is streamlined, and the visibility across deployed resources is far clearer than before. As the network accelerates, providers sit at the center of that growth—backed by a system designed to give them clarity, control, and a smooth operational experience.
If you’re looking for a place where your hardware can deliver at its fullest, the path forward is wide open.
More updates ahead—stay tuned!
Welcome to our Deep Dive for Week 48 of 2025!
⚡ Protocol Rollout
Two weeks ago, we outlined the path forward for Proof-of-GPU 3 as it moved into its multi-stage launch. Phase 1 delivers a recipe-driven, non-interactive protocol that brings near-instant verification of compute, all built on the container infrastructure already running across the network.
As we move into December, Phase 2 expands participation with hybrid onboarding, opening the doors to new compute providers without registration hurdles and giving contributors a clear track to earn from their resources.
Looking into early 2026, Phase 3 pushes the protocol into confidential compute, advancing from PoW-based validation into secure TEE and VM attestation while keeping everything within the same unified architecture.
This week, we confirmed that PoG v3 is now in the final stretch of testing, with rollout expected next week—at the latest, within two.
📊 Platform Momentum
The subnet also saw a new release with Version 2.3.2, bringing targeted improvements for miners. A key mainnet connection issue has been resolved, the installer now supports interactive wallet selection, and onboarding documentation has been expanded for new contributors.
The update deployed successfully within its scheduled window, with no action required from existing miners. New installations now benefit from the polished setup flow and improved guidance from the start.
More updates ahead—stay tuned!