Aethir Announces First Decentralized AI Node Sale

Aethir, the leader in decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure, announced its highly anticipated Node Sale. Aethir is an enterprise-grade, AI and gaming-focused GPU-as-a-service provider. Aethir’s decentralized cloud computing infrastructure enables GPU providers to connect with enterprise customers who need the raw power of NVIDIA’s H100 chips for complex AI/ML tasks.

In addition, Aethir’s infrastructure supports cloud gaming customers and has contracts with the world’s largest gaming and telecom companies, leveraging its flexibility and breadth of technological and operational expertise.

$ATH token is a native token for the Aethir network to reward node providers and controllers for maintaining the Aethir Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure network.

This decentralization starts first with Checker Nodes, which are the validators of our ecosystem, equal opportunity to participate, equal opportunity to verify, and equal opportunity to earn an additional bonus for catching bad actors and cutting their rewards.

Aethir aims to become an enterprise-first infrastructure partner leveraging the Arbitrum ecosystem for DePIN and AI, as it will host its node infrastructure in the ecosystem and prepare for its own node sale on Arbitrum.

Why Should You Run Nodes on Aethir?

Running a node on Aethir contributes to the decentralization of cloud computing and earns rewards from being a network participant. The first type of node to be available on the Aethir network is the controller node, which is a node that any user can run to help verify uptime, latency, quality of service, and computing power provided by other node participants in the future. Aethir’s team always strives to ensure a decentralized approach in every aspect of the project. The team’s commitment to decentralization and community ownership begins with the decentralization of controller node licenses, which play a critical role in the ecosystem in validating service delivery within the Aethir infrastructure.

Node Sales details are as follows:

• 100,000 nodes are available on a tiered pricing system.
• Nodes will be sold through a public sale on Arbitrum.
• Nodes are transferable one year after sale.
• Rewards will be accrued and earned according to a vesting logic for each user.
• There is no limit to the number of nodes that can be purchased.
• Special allocation for network early adopter whitelists for the Aethir community, partners, and KOLs.

Special Income Opportunities for Node Operators

By becoming a node operator in Aethir’s ecosystem, users can earn up to a total of 15% of the total supply of the Aethir ecosystem (over the next four years), reserved specifically for supervisory Node Operators. Other rewards will be reserved for other mining and technical participation roles within the network. Nodes earn rewards by helping verify data and service delivery within the network, acting as checks and balances for future mining throughput of AI-enabled processing chips and other computing power.

This control node sale gives everyone the opportunity to become part of the network to support the creation of a decentralized ecosystem for the largest collection of decentralized AI computing power, without forcing every regular user to be ready from day one to participate in heavy computing work.

Phased Public Node Sale – A Chance for Everyone to Participate

With nodes starting at $500 per control node and increasing with each tier, and whitelists reserved for different participants across the Aethir community, partner communities, KOLs, and venture capital teams, this sale is designed to include all types of participants.

Users will participate with ETH (WETH) wrapped on the Arbitrum network and full details of the sale will be available at this link: http://checker.aethir.com Details on the operation of the node will be available at the time of testnet launch.

Aethir is excited to announce the first tiered decentralized AI public node sale, providing fair and broad access to its emerging network. While a certain number of nodes are reserved for whitelists, including KOLs and members of Aethir and its partner communities, most nodes are publicly available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis.

This structure ensures that everyone has the opportunity to participate in Aethir’s revolutionary journey towards decentralization.

KOLs will receive a unique referral code to share with their community and earn a referral fee for every node sale made using their code.

Node Sales Timeline

• Node sale announcement: February 26, 2024, 12 PM UTC
• Impossible Whitelist campaign: February 27, 2024, 10:00 UTC – March 14, 10:00 UTC
• Node sale launch: March 20, 2024 at 10:00 UTC
• Network launch: Q2 2024

Stay tuned to Aethir’s official channels for more details on how to purchase and run a node.

Aethir’s Ecosystem and Your Role

As node operators, you are an integral part of Aethir’s ecosystem and will earn rewards for your significant computing contributions once the network is fully implemented. Aethir is on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to universal cloud computing, and we invite you to join this journey through our First Node Offering.

More about Aethir

• Aethir’s Unprecedented Product Drive
• A mid-7-figure annual contract was signed with the world’s largest telecommunications company, increasing to 8 figures by the 2nd quarter of 2024.
• It is on track to sign three more corporate contracts in the first quarter of 2024.
• It has signed three contracts for cloud gaming with more than ten expected in the first quarter of 2024, including partnerships with the world’s largest gaming company with 150M+ MAU and a 22% conversion rate.
• It reached more than 170 thousand community members.
• Proud members of NVIDIA’s Startup Program have a powerful line of H100 chips that even Meta (Facebook) is buying for billions.
• Powered by the Best
• Our mission is supported by Maelstrom, Mirana Ventures, Animoca Brands, Sanctor Capital, Hashkey, Merit Circle and an impressive roster of investors including CitizenX, IVC, Framework Ventures and Infinity Ventures Crypto.
• Meet the Team Behind the Mission
• Mark Rydon – Co-Founder and CEO – Mark, NOTA Platform, Flux Capital, Gaas LTD, Kulture Athletics, Inc. and held important positions at Bechtel Corporation.
• Daniel Wang – Co-Founder and CBO – Mythos Venture Partners (GP), Formerly IVC (Venture Partner), YGG SEA (CIO), Riot Games (Head of International Publishing Management), Riot Games – China (Head of Operations).
• Kyle Okamoto – CTO – Kyle served as CEO and General Manager of Ericsson’s IoT, Automotive and Security businesses, CEO of Edge Gravity, and Chief Network Officer at Verizon Media.
• Paul Thind – CRO – Currently CRO at Aethir, Paul previously served as co-founder and CEO of Triggerspot Inc and was a consultant at Creadits and Trick Studio.

About Aethir

Aethir is revolutionizing DePIN with advanced, distributed enterprise-class GPU-based computing infrastructure designed specifically for AI and gaming. Backed by leading Web3 investors such as Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, Sanctor Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC) and others, with over $32 million in funding raised for the ecosystem, Aethir is paving the way for the future of decentralized computing.

Users who want to be a part of the node sale and help shape the future of AI and gaming can check Aethir’s official node sale link to learn how to participate in the sale.