io.net protocol
Overview
io.net is a decentralised AI infrastructure platform that aggregates GPU compute, describing itself on its homepage as 'The Open Source AI Infrastructure Platform'. Its documentation explains that the project grew out of a quantitative trading infrastructure company whose own economics were broken by GPU costs — it cites an NVIDIA A100 priced at over $80/day per card, meaning 50+ cards for 25 days a month cost roughly $100,000/month, unaffordable for a self-funded startup. The technical foundation is Ray, the open-source distributed-computing library which the docs note was used by OpenAI to distribute GPT-3/4 training across more than 300,000 CPUs and GPUs; adopting Ray cut the team's build time from over six months to under 60 days. The platform's premise is that pooling underused GPUs into distributed clusters can serve machine-learning workloads at far lower cost than centralised cloud providers. The public documentation pages read here do not set out token mechanics, chain details or current GPU supply figures, so those are not asserted. io.net began as internal infrastructure for a quantitative trading firm before pivoting to offer distributed GPU compute as a product, a pivot the documentation attributes directly to the cost of renting GPUs at scale.
Within the DeFi Intel graph, io.net connects to 7 tracked entities, most strongly to Solana, IO, Hack VC.
Relations
Top connections in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph (confidence-weighted, 7 of 7 total).
| Relation | Connected entity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
deployed_on | Solana | 95% |
issued_by | IO | 90% |
invested_in | Hack VC | 90% |
invested_in | Multicoin Capital | 85% |
invested_in | Borderless Capital | 70% |
partnered_with | Render Network | 60% |
partnered_with | Nosana | 50% |
Frequently asked questions
What is io.net?
io.net is a protocol tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph. It is connected to 7 other tracked entities, most strongly to Solana, IO, Hack VC.
What type of entity is io.net?
io.net is classified as a protocol (protocol) in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph.
What is io.net connected to?
In the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, io.net is linked to 7 other tracked entities, most strongly to Solana, IO, Hack VC.
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