Aethir

Enterprise GPUs do not become a cloud merely because they are connected to the internet. Customers need the right memory, driver, region and latency at a predictable time. Aethir asks Cloud Hosts to register those resources as Containers, then presents Aethir Earth for AI and Aethir Atmosphere for cloud gaming through customer and host portals.

The Container is the execution endpoint. It may wait ready for a request or actively render one. An Indexer matches demand to suitable capacity. That makes Aethir a distributed supply marketplace, but the matching service, application images, accounts and regional price table remain a managed control plane rather than a permissionless GPU instruction broadcast.

The product evidence is concrete: hosts manage GPUs, stake, view income and accept orders; customers create wallets and orders. Marketing claims about affordable, low-latency global compute still require utilization, service-level and customer evidence beyond the existence of those workflows.

Checkers inspect claimed specifications at registration and evaluate liveness, capacity and delivered service. The architecture page says Proof of Capacity checks occur every 15 minutes. The operator guide separately lists heartbeat checks every minute, QOE rendering-quality checks every minute during a job and capacity-specification tests once a day. It does not explain whether the 15-minute PoC check and the daily specification test measure the same thing. Those results affect scheduling, rewards and slashing. A host owns its machine, but does not unilaterally decide whether it qualifies or what K-value it receives.

Running this audit requires a Checker License NFT or delegation. The primary sale closed in March 2024; transfer opened on 12 July 2025. Base rewards consume 10% of total ATH and bonuses another 5%, both over four years. Bonus eligibility demands more than 95% uptime throughout a quarter, and claiming requires KYC. The license documentation also says claims and withdrawals cannot be initiated from the US or OFAC/UN-sanctioned countries and regions. A lifetime license is access to the work system, not a lifetime income promise.

A host can receive Proof of Capacity for readiness and Proof of Delivery for completed work. Aethir currently divides those reward types 50/50 through its utility ratio. Rewards are calculated daily, with a typical 30% immediately, 30% after 90 days and 40% after 180 days, after a 5% protocol fee.

Service fees follow a different path: the customer sees fiat pricing, settlement reaches the host in ATH after 45 days, and the platform takes 20%. Aethir Labs initially sets regional and specification prices and recalculates K-values and stake needs. The project says a DAO may govern them later. That future tense is a control disclosure, not proof of current token rule.

The Ethereum contract minted all 42 billion ATH to itself and caps supply at the same amount. An owner manages whitelisted destinations and their allowances. On 5 September 2026 that owner was a three-signer Safe requiring two approvals. The token is not a proxy and has no burn path in the verified code, so the owner can distribute the remaining contract balance but cannot exceed the cap.

Half the supply is assigned to Checkers and compute providers. Ecosystem receives 15%, team 12.5%, investors 11.5%, airdrop 6% and advisors 5%. Team vesting is 18 months plus 36 linear; investors 12 plus 24. The published circulation table reaches 23.308 billion in September 2026, yet CoinGecko showed about 20.13 billion at review. A scheduled unlock is not necessarily circulating market supply.

The gap matters because Aethir's compute-emission page still promises the exact decay function later. Checker pools are numerically clearer, but provider rewards mix treasury incentives, readiness, jobs, K-values, vesting and fees. A quoted portal APY cannot substitute for the missing long-run formula.

Ethereum is canonical for exchange, airdrop and staking. Arbitrum's 0xc87b…056c is an Axelar Interchain Token used for compute and Checker rewards; an Axelar service and token-manager proxy govern mint-and-burn correspondence. Official bridge registry 0x148f…1948 is the active Ethereum–Arbitrum manager, while an older bridge is deprecated.

Solana mint Dm5B…cVk7 adds a third ledger. At review, address 2dCh…8AD2 held both mint and freeze authority. Those powers may support Stargate bridging, but they can also create or freeze the Solana representation according to controller rules. Chain totals therefore cannot be summed as three independent supplies, and Ethereum's fixed cap alone does not describe bridge risk.

General Terms name DCI Foundation, a Panama foundation company, and separate Foundation services from the protocol. They reserve service-interruption powers and Foundation ownership of service intellectual property. Staking Terms instead contract under the name Aethir, choose Singapore law, permit feature termination and deny guaranteed rewards. The reviewed texts do not give ATH holders title to the Foundation, a GPU, a Container or customer revenue.

That legal boundary brings the operating story back to the machine. A host can own and run the GPU, yet an Indexer must send it work, Checkers must accept its readiness and delivery, and the platform must calculate the fiat-priced service fee and settle it in ATH. Decentralized hardware supply therefore changes who can provide compute; it does not make qualification, scheduling or payment automatic.