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Observed SOL inflows fund a cost-capped Vast pilot.
Public capacity appears only when Vast confirms a live machine; keys can join its controlled session queue.
Only machines confirmed by the provider appear here. Rates, capacity, and runway are calculated from fresh telemetry; marketplace listings never count as a running fleet.
The pilot is deliberately small: one verified on-demand offer, a hard $0.50/hour ceiling, and an operator confirmation before any paid launch.
The public site can show a Vast-confirmed GPU and its real hourly rate. It never publishes SSH hostnames, ports, or provider credentials.
Paste the private operator token only in your own browser session to inspect offers, launch one approved pilot, or stop the tracked instance.
There are no subscriptions to manage. A wallet’s current $ROOT balance determines the access tier checked by every key and session request.
The tier is read from the wallet at the time a key or pilot-session request is checked. Queue placement is not an active GPU session and does not expose provider access.
Buy more and your next balance check can change the tier. A future session relay will re-check the balance before activating a controlled session.
Your key is derived from a live on-chain balance, bound to one wallet, and rechecked before a session request. It is not a promise of a GPU—only a safe way to enter the queue.
Paste a wallet address or connect a Solana wallet. We read its $ROOT balance on chain, work out the tier, and hand you a key. The key stops working when the balance drops below the line.
ROOT connects observed wallet inflows to a tightly controlled GPU pilot. The rules below describe what is live today and what is deliberately not promised.
A fleet of rented GPUs paid for by observed wallet inflows on a token. The first Vast pilot is operator-confirmed and cost-capped; public capacity appears only after Vast reports a live instance.
It is not a model API. When a session relay is activated, it will provide a container with root and a GPU. Until then, keys can join the controlled pilot queue but do not expose machine access.
# request a session after receiving a key curl -X POST https://root.rent/api/session \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"key":"root_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}'
A request is bound to its key and checked against the wallet’s live token balance. It receives a queue or readiness status only; SSH credentials are not published by this site.
curl -s https://root.rent/api/tier?wallet=$WALLET { "balance": 128400, "tier": { "name": "taproot", "hours": 4, "gpu": "A100 80GB" }, "next": { "name": "heartwood", "hold": 1000000, "need": 871600 } }
The pilot currently supports one explicitly approved Vast instance, capped at $0.50/hour. Session relay activation remains operator-controlled, so a queue entry is not a promise of immediate shell access.
Fleet size should follow revenue. The dashboard labels observed wallet inflows rather than guaranteed creator fees, and it counts cost only when Vast confirms a running instance.
The treasury is an operator wallet. We pay the GPU bills from it and the balance, the claims and the spend are all on this page so you can check the arithmetic. It is transparent, not trustless, and it would be dishonest to describe it any other way.
Not investment advice.
A creator-fee-funded experiment where the ledger, provider state, and access rules stay visible.
A GPU is the one thing in this industry that everybody needs and almost nobody can casually afford. An H100 is somewhere around two and a half dollars an hour, which is nothing to a company and a real decision for a student, a hobbyist, or anyone trying something for the first time.
Meanwhile a token on pump.fun throws off a creator fee on every single trade, forever, and in almost every case that money goes into a wallet and stays there.
So point it at the bill. Traders pay the fee because they are trading. The fee rents machines. The machines are free to use. Nobody is ever asked to pay for the thing they are using, which is the only reason the word free is honest here.
Because a fleet that only serves holders is just a discount, and a discount is not a story. Somebody opening their first shell on an H100 without a credit card is a story, and the ledger above proves it happened.
The currently confirmed provider nodes cost about — a day. Every hour those cards are up shows on the ledger whether anybody used them or not, because hiding idle cost would make the runway number a lie.