What this is

A fleet of rented GPUs paid for by ETH inflows observed at a configured Robinhood Chain wallet. A valid queued request can start one cost-capped Vast pilot automatically; 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.

Getting a session

# 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.

Checking your tier from code

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 } }

What you get

• one automatically selected, verified on-demand pilot after a valid request enters the queue
• a wallet- and tier-gated session request with a daily time allowance
• no provider credential, direct SSH host, or port exposed in the browser
• real provider rate and fleet state while the pilot is running
• no automatic treasury transfers or credit top-ups; the one unattended pilot has strict spend and runtime stops

Limits, honestly

The pilot supports one automatically selected Vast instance, capped at $0.50/hour, $10 total, and three hours. It stops at the first limit and does not relaunch after a provider failure. A queue entry is still not a promise of immediate shell access.

Fleet size should follow revenue. The dashboard labels observed wallet inflows rather than guaranteed platform fees, makes no claim of Robinhood affiliation, and counts cost only when Vast confirms a running instance.

Where the numbers come from

• treasury — live ETH balance of the configured Robinhood Chain wallet, read from chain
• wallet inflows — inbound ETH transfers observed at that wallet; classification as a platform fee is not assumed
• gpu cost — the actual hourly rate of every machine currently up, summed
• runway — treasury divided by that daily burn
• tier — your ROOT ERC-20 balance, checked with balanceOf after the contract is configured

The honest part

The treasury is an operator wallet. We pay the GPU bills from it and the balance, observed inflows, and spend are all on this page so you can check the arithmetic. ROOT is independent and not affiliated with Robinhood. It is transparent, not trustless, and it would be dishonest to describe it any other way.

Not investment advice.

Why

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, visible transfers into a chain wallet can be tracked without pretending their source is certain. Some may be platform-related fees; others may not be. The chain record is evidence of movement, not affiliation or a guarantee about why every transfer happened.

So point transparent treasury spending at the bill. Observed inflows support rented machines. The machines are free to use, while access remains constrained by the pilot’s explicit budget and time limits.

Why free at all

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.

What it costs to run

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.