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Whale Surfer retweeted
New big milestone achieved : 🔥 10% of the supply is now burnt forever !🔥 𝔹𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕠 ! _ justachillpigeon.fun/
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Buying $IDLE @IdleProtocol dip here means believing two things are true: 1️⃣ AI infrastructure demand and compute consumption will continue to accelerate. 2️⃣ People want to monetize the unused resources on their devices. If you agree with both, this dip looks like one of the easiest asymmetric bets in crypto. The team has consistently executed shipping products, securing partnerships, building network effects, and proving that a distributed compute network on Solana can work. And from what I’m hearing, conversations with the Solana Foundation may already be underway. MC: $544k At this valuation, the market is pricing in very little future success relative to the size of the AI compute opportunity. This is where the biggest opportunities are. CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
JPMorgan just published their global AI infrastructure outlook. The numbers are staggering. $5 trillion in data center spending expected by 2030. $700 billion needed this year alone. 122 gigawatts of new capacity required - if the power grids can handle it. Lead times for new gas turbines: 3-4 years. Nuclear plants: 10 years. JPMorgan's exact words: "the scale of demand for compute remains astronomical." The world is trying to build its way out of a compute crisis that cannot be built out of on any reasonable timeline. 4 billion phones and PCs already exist. Already powered. Already connected. IDLE Protocol connects them - turning the compute that already exists into a global distributed network, settling payments in USDC on Solana automatically. No gas turbines. No grid upgrades. No 10-year build timelines. techstrong.ai/agentic-ai/ai-…
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Whale Surfer retweeted
JPMorgan just published their global AI infrastructure outlook. The numbers are staggering. $5 trillion in data center spending expected by 2030. $700 billion needed this year alone. 122 gigawatts of new capacity required - if the power grids can handle it. Lead times for new gas turbines: 3-4 years. Nuclear plants: 10 years. JPMorgan's exact words: "the scale of demand for compute remains astronomical." The world is trying to build its way out of a compute crisis that cannot be built out of on any reasonable timeline. 4 billion phones and PCs already exist. Already powered. Already connected. IDLE Protocol connects them - turning the compute that already exists into a global distributed network, settling payments in USDC on Solana automatically. No gas turbines. No grid upgrades. No 10-year build timelines. techstrong.ai/agentic-ai/ai-…
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Here’s a recap of the growing ecosystem around $IDLE @IdleProtocol: ➡️ @saidinfra ➡️ @Alchemy ➡️ @PayAINetwork ➡️ @xona_agent ➡️ @Hyre_agent ➡️ @grass ➡️ @theprivacycash ➡️ @NousResearch ➡️ @DaemonTerminal ➡️ @MistralAI ➡️ @HatcherLabs ➡️ @nodepay_ai ➡️ @Dune This is what real network effects look like. Partnerships. Integrations. Distribution. $IDLE continues to expand its footprint as it builds one of the first large-scale distributed compute networks powering the CryptoAI economy on Solana. As more AI agents, applications, and services come online, demand for decentralized compute only grows. MC: $873k CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
We're excited to announce our partnership with @saidinfra IDLE Protocol is now the default execution layer for SAID agents - every web fetch, scrape, data extraction, and compute task runs through IDLE's distributed network. Paid per request in USDC. Settled on @solana. IDLE routes on SAID's on-chain reputation system. Verified agents with higher reputation scores get priority access to jobs. The better your agent, the more it earns. Agents need compute. A decentralized network providing it. That's IDLE.
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Whale Surfer retweeted
1/ 🎮 What if playing an $IDLE game could earn you USDC? @IdleProtocol just launched a Minecraft-style world where your browser becomes an AI compute node. You explore. Your hardware works. You get paid. 🧵👇
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1/ We just shipped our MCP server and it's now live in Anthropic's official MCP Registry. IDLE Protocol can be utilized by your agents to discover, pay for, and call distributed compute - web scraping, inference, DNS lookups, API monitoring - all from residential IPs in USDC. 14 endpoints live. Starting at $0.001/request. Settled on-chain on @solana. Infrastructure for AI agents. All on-chain, no API keys, no humans in the loop.
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Whale Surfer retweeted
Adoption picking up for $IDLE @IdleProtocol
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The next CryptoAI runner on Solana Sub-$1M market cap. Partnered with $PAYAI @PayAINetwork , @Alchemy , and building one of the most important pieces of infrastructure for the CryptoAI economy. Every AI agent, application, and service needs compute. $IDLE @IdleProtocol is building the decentralized compute network designed to supply it. The AI economy won’t run on hype. It will run on compute. CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
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I don’t think CT or the Solana community fully realizes how big this is. Any x402-compatible AI agent can now access IDLE’s compute network and pay per request. No humans. No API keys. No accounts. Just autonomous agents discovering, purchasing, and consuming compute when they need it. This is machine-to-machine commerce in action. As the Agent Economy grows, infrastructure that agents can access and pay for autonomously becomes increasingly valuable. $IDLE @IdleProtocol is positioning itself as a core compute layer for CryptoAI on Solana. MC: $800K CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
We're excited to team up with @PayAINetwork - bringing gasless x402 payments to distributed compute on Solana. PayAI is one of the leading x402 facilitators, running across Solana, Base, SKALE, and 10 networks. IDLE's 15 compute endpoints - inference, scraping, DNS, SSL, health checks - are now payable per request by any x402-compatible agent. No API keys. No signups. No subscriptions. Any agent that speaks x402 can now access IDLE compute autonomously. No humans in the loop.
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Whale Surfer retweeted
The leader of CryptoAI Payments the Leader in distributed compute teaming up 👏 $IDLE @IdleProtocol 🤝 $PAYAI @PayAINetwork
We're excited to team up with @PayAINetwork - bringing gasless x402 payments to distributed compute on Solana. PayAI is one of the leading x402 facilitators, running across Solana, Base, SKALE, and 10 networks. IDLE's 15 compute endpoints - inference, scraping, DNS, SSL, health checks - are now payable per request by any x402-compatible agent. No API keys. No signups. No subscriptions. Any agent that speaks x402 can now access IDLE compute autonomously. No humans in the loop.
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Whale Surfer retweeted
Replying to @IdleProtocol
Gasless. Keyless. Humanless. Compute for the agentic web is here. Let's go @IdleProtocol 🚀
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Whale Surfer retweeted
We're excited to team up with @PayAINetwork - bringing gasless x402 payments to distributed compute on Solana. PayAI is one of the leading x402 facilitators, running across Solana, Base, SKALE, and 10 networks. IDLE's 15 compute endpoints - inference, scraping, DNS, SSL, health checks - are now payable per request by any x402-compatible agent. No API keys. No signups. No subscriptions. Any agent that speaks x402 can now access IDLE compute autonomously. No humans in the loop.
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Ok so set up the $IDLE game on the laptop. Very easy to setup a node. No wallet connect required - just a Solana wallet address to paste into the game settings. Didn’t play around with the game too much though. $IDLE started paying out almost immediately. 30mins in - $0.001816 already earned from 8 completed jobs. Keep thinking it can’t be this easy! What’s the catch? I def have crypto PTSD from all the rugs and scams over the years but this tek is genuinely working & paying out. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out across 100s millions of devices incl mobiles. @IdleProtocol
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Whale Surfer retweeted
Great post explaining how the $IDLE @IdleProtocol network works and scales. In my view, this could be one of the first real examples of free-market UBI at a global scale. Anyone with a smartphone can now participate in the AI economy and generate passive income by contributing compute resources. I don’t think the market fully appreciates how significant this is. This is what happens when AI and crypto converge: new jobs, new markets, and entirely new economic opportunities become possible. I’m early, but I’m not wrong. MC: $713K CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
Validation works at two levels. For compute tasks like web fetches, DNS lookups, and data verification - a random subset of jobs are re-run server-side and compared. If a node's result doesn't match, it gets flagged and deprioritized. Deterministic tasks make spot-checking easy, you only need to catch a node once to kill its reputation score. For inference jobs - IDLE uses a combination of output sampling and economic design. Random jobs are cross-validated against multiple nodes. Nodes with consistently outlier outputs get flagged and rate-limited. The payout is also low enough per job that the cost of trying to game the system exceeds the reward, which is the standard mechanism design used across all major DePIN compute networks.
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🚨 $IDLE @IdleProtocol Game Public Beta goes LIVE in 24 hours. This isn’t just a game. It’s a browser-based MMO that turns every player into a contributor to a global decentralized compute network. No downloads. No setup. No technical knowledge required. Open the game → Play → Earn. Powered by WebGPU, the game only uses a fraction of your device’s GPU while the remaining compute power is routed through IDLE Protocol to execute real-world compute jobs. Rewards are settled automatically in USDC on Solana. Every new player = more GPU power. Every new GPU = stronger network effects. Every network effect = more capacity for distributed inference, rendering, and large-scale AI workloads. This could become one of the most powerful onboarding funnels in CryptoAI: 🎮 Gaming 🤖 AI Compute 💰 Passive Earnings ⚡ Solana Mass adoption often looks simple on the surface. $IDLE @IdleProtocol hit an ATH of $1.6 million MC 2 days ago. It’s now trading at $578k MC Loading up on this dip as I think this new revolutionary $IDLE Game will be a game changer for the Solana CryptoAI Ecosystem. CA: AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump
IDLE: The Game public beta goes live in 24 hours. A browser MMO built on top of IDLE Protocol - open it, your device joins the global compute network. Play. Earn. No downloads. No setup. How it works: WebGPU gives websites direct access to your GPU. The game is lightweight by design - it only uses a fraction of your chip. While you play, the remaining GPU power executes compute jobs routed through IDLE Protocol. Settled in USDC on Solana automatically. The game runs. The network earns. Every player adds GPU power to the network. As the network scales, devices combine to run distributed inference, rendering, and large-scale data processing - all split across players in real time. For anyone that wants early access - DM us and we'll get a few of you in 👾
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Solana CryptoAI season is heating up. It’s starting to remind me of Q4 2024, when some of the biggest opportunities and generational returns emerged. Today, @solana has a rapidly expanding AI stack: → AI Agent Infrastructure → Inference Infrastructure → Compute Infrastructure → Data Infrastructure What excites me most is that we’re finally seeing a healthy and vibrant CryptoAI ecosystem with real products, real users, and real utility. AI and crypto are two of the largest technology trends of our generation, and their convergence is creating what I believe is the biggest TAM in all of crypto. My highest conviction remains the compute layer. Compute is the foundation that powers every AI application, agent, and service. As demand for AI continues to explode, the protocols enabling access to compute stand to capture enormous value. That’s why I’m still long: $IDLE @IdleProtocol $PRIMIS @primisprotocol The infrastructure phase is just getting started.
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Hermes Agent by @NousResearch can now route inference through IDLE Protocol. Hermes uses NVIDIA NIM for inference. IDLE routes workloads through NIM-compatible nodes. One endpoint change and every Hermes Agent can route its workloads through IDLE's distributed compute network. Cheaper than centralized APIs, no rate limits, pay per request. 100,000 GitHub stars. The most popular open-source AI agent in the world - now a demand source for the IDLE network.
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NVIDIA just mass-produced our supply chain. RTX Spark - the world's most efficient PC chip ever built, puts 1 PFLOP of AI inference into consumer laptops shipping this fall. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, MSI. Every major PC maker on earth. Every single one of those machines sits idle 90% of the day. IDLE turns that dead compute into a paid resource. You run a node, we route workloads to your PC, you earn USDC. No setup, no cloud contracts, no data center. @NVIDIA built the hardware. We built the network that puts it to work.
This is the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers. Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs.
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MILESTONE UPDATE: $IDLE transactions have more than double again to 208,000. Several big partnerships secured and active. @NVIDIAAI watching. Further updates incoming. Live usage stats can be found on Dune: dune.com/idle_protocol/idle
MILESTONE UPDATE: Total $IDLE transactions just surpassed 100,000. Adoption becoming real now. $9,000 USDC paid out directly to users. $IDLE also just became part of the @raydistributed ecosystem, which gives them access to 9 billion devices. So what’s not to like about this. $IDLE also has a real flywheel in full effect. The flywheel is not from charging a tax or AI perp/bot trading profits or scamming/rugging or using creator rewards. It simply comes from selling one of your resources (eg bandwith, wallet, GPU, API) that might be sitting idle each day/night and letting it earn some passive income - all paid in stable USDC. From that total, 10% is automatically swapped into $IDLE token via Jupiter swap and burned forever. Currently 105m tokens have already been burnt under the flywheel. Imagine when the mobile resource goes live!!! For live adoption stats see: dune.com/idle_protocol/idle
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IDLE Protocol is built for exactly this. Distributed inference across thousands of devices - phones, laptops, NVIDIA DGX Sparks - routing through NVIDIA NIM, Mistral AI, Google Gemini, and Kimi K2.6. Developers get API access to distributed compute at a fraction of frontier lab pricing. No subscriptions, no rate limits, no $200/month plans. The 90% of tasks that don't need frontier pricing - IDLE runs them cheaper and without the overhead.
My top focus area within AI right now is finding companies that do either of the following: > help reduce frontier lab API bills > provide / enable alternatives to frontier lab usage (the 90% of tasks that don’t need it) From pure tokenmaxxing to token cost optimizing
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