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sn51What is lium?
Lium is the current name used by the project formerly presented as Celium. Lium's official documentation identifies the product as a GPU-rental marketplace on Bittensor Subnet 51 (netuid 51), coordinating GPU providers, validators and renters. The current product is a cloud-like interface plus CLI/SDK: users can browse machines, rent GPU-backed Docker pods and run workloads. The historical Celium compute repository is a Datura-related fork and remains technical evidence for the same subnet architecture, not a separately verified legacy coin.
What problem does lium solve?
The project addresses access to scarce and expensive GPU compute. Its stated model is to let independent providers contribute GPU-equipped machines and let renters use that distributed capacity for machine learning and other compute-heavy tasks, with validators checking hardware and performance. That is a marketplace and incentive problem, not a claim that Lium has replaced centralized cloud infrastructure or that every planned distributed-AI use case is already live.
How does lium work?
Lium's current user layer uses a dashboard, command-line client and Python SDK to discover machines, fund an account and launch or manage pods. Official provider documentation confirms registration on Subnet 51 with netuid 51. The subnet has miners/providers that supply compute and validators that verify and score hardware; Lium's current emission documentation states that Subnet 51 receives a share of Bittensor TAO emissions and that validator-selected pools pay providers in alpha. The reviewed sources do not document a separate Lium ERC-20/TRC-20 contract, holder redemption promise, equity interest, fee-dividend right, or project-specific mint/freeze/blacklist/upgrade/bridge controller. They also do not provide a sufficiently authoritative fixed-supply or vesting table, so no supply number is asserted here.
Key facts
- Lium is the current official product name; the historical Celium repository is a Datura-related fork, while independent documentation corroborates the former-name relationship.
- Lium's official documentation identifies the marketplace as Bittensor Subnet 51, and the technical validator guide explicitly instructs registration with netuid 51.
- The live product is a GPU-rental platform with a dashboard, CLI and Python SDK; its reference describes Docker pods, root SSH access and direct GPU passthrough.
- The subnet separates miners/providers (GPU suppliers), validators (hardware/performance evaluators) and renters (compute users).
- Current Lium documentation says Subnet 51 receives a share of Bittensor TAO emissions and distributes provider-side results as alpha through rented, unrented and burn pools.
- SN51 alpha is not evidenced by the reviewed sources as an ERC-20 or TRC-20 token, and no standalone contract address was identified.
- No authoritative Lium supply-allocation, vesting, holder-governance, redemption, revenue-share, mint, freeze, blacklist, upgrade, or bridge specification was found; those should not be inferred from market listings.
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Is Celium a different coin from Lium?
The strongest combined evidence treats Lium as the current product name for the project formerly presented as Celium: the historical Celium repository is a fork with Datura's Lium repository lineage, current Lium documentation identifies Subnet 51, and independent subnet documentation states the former-name relationship. This does not establish two independently verified coins.
What is SN51?
SN51 is shorthand for Bittensor Subnet 51 (netuid 51), the subnet on which Lium's compute marketplace operates. It is not, on the evidence reviewed, a conventional standalone ERC-20 or TRC-20 contract ticker.
What can a holder of the SN51 alpha claim?
The reviewed sources establish Bittensor subnet participation and provider-side alpha economics, but do not establish equity, revenue share, redemption, legal ownership of GPUs, or a guaranteed service entitlement. Any holder-rights claim beyond applicable Bittensor staking and transfer mechanics requires separate authoritative documentation.
What product is live today?
Lium publishes a live dashboard together with CLI and Python SDK tooling for discovering GPUs, renting machines, launching Docker-based pods and deploying machine-learning workloads. Roadmap ideas such as much larger distributed training should not be presented as already delivered.
How are miners and validators involved?
Providers/miners contribute GPU resources and run subnet software; validators verify hardware and performance and score providers. Lium's current documentation says the validator distributes subnet emission through rented, unrented and burn pools, while the underlying Bittensor network uses TAO emissions and subnet alpha mechanics.
What is Lium's total supply or vesting schedule?
No authoritative supply-allocation or vesting table was found in the reviewed official, technical and independent sources. A market-data snapshot is not sufficient evidence, so this page intentionally does not assert a fixed maximum, circulating amount or vesting timetable.
Can Lium freeze, mint, blacklist or upgrade my token?
The reviewed sources do not identify a standalone Lium token contract or document project-specific mint, freeze, blacklist, proxy-upgrade or bridge administrators. SN51 is a Bittensor subnet asset; do not import ERC-20 control assumptions without a verified contract and source code.
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