Aethir focused on enterprise GPU rentals from day one. It grades F on freedom and C on returns. Checker nodes, Edge nodes, Cloud nodes: we cover the economics and whether Aethir can compete with Render and Akash.

AntSeed runs the decentralisation that most DeAI inference marketplaces claim: BitTorrent DHT for discovery, WebRTC for transport, fair-launch ANTS emissions on weekly epochs, but the token's transfers are intentionally disabled during the protocol's economic-architecture phase. C on Freedom, F on Returns.

Heurist built a real open-source agent SDK with reciprocal partnerships and a Coinbase x402 payment rail, but the GPU mining programme that anchored its decentralised compute identity has been paused since January 2025, and the token sits at the post-cycle low end of the DeAI compute shelf. F on Freedom, F on Returns.

A practical guide to buying TAO, choosing subnets, acquiring alpha tokens, and managing the risks. Step-by-step walkthrough with btcli and taostats.io.

NuNet ships open-source compute orchestration on Ethereum, Cardano and BNB Smart Chain with a 32-device mainnet and a token audit four years and eight months old. The architecturally honest end of the DeAI compute shelf at the smallest market cap on the shelf.

Auki ships Cactus, a B2B spatial-AI retail tool with one externally documented pilot at Coop Stora Visby. The Posemesh perception network is admitted-centralised by both auditor and project. The 40,000 retail stores figure circulating in DeAI commentary is unsourced.

Openmind ships the OM1 open-source robot runtime on Unitree, UBTech and Agibot hardware. USDC settles via x402, ROBO bonds operator reputation, and BubbleMaps flagged sybil wallets at airdrop. Insider cliff opens February 2027.

Giza ships verifiable ML via ZKML on Starkware's S-two. The ARMA agent runs on Base with DeFiLlama-verified fees. LuminAIR has not seen a commit in eight months. Real shipping product, stale research stack.

Nous Research trains Hermes models on Psyche, the distributed training network. $50 million from Paradigm at a $1 billion SAFT valuation. Genuine post-training credentials and a heavy VC cap table before TGE.

Celium is Bit-tensor subnet 51 and the second subnet with verified rental revenue. We break down the 3.5x subsidy ratio, the 500-plus H100 fleet, and what Datura AI's operator role tells us about subnet economics.