Lock in an 8×H100 node-week at today’s price
For teams that need guaranteed nodes for weeks, and the GPU operators who sell them ahead. USDC escrow on Solana pays the seller by the certified hour; hours short beyond 1% pay the buyer damages from collateral.
One claim is one node-week: 168 hours of one 8×H100 node
Every hour is certified against the same test. The week you just ran: 162 hours certified, 6 cut.
The node-week in full GPUs · RAM · storage · network · window · tolerance
- Unit
- 1 node-week = 168 node-hours = 1,344 GPU-hours
- GPUs
- 8 × H100 SXM 80GB on NVSwitch
- Host RAM
- ≥ 1 TB ECC
- CPU
- Dual-socket EPYC or Xeon, current generation
- Local NVMe
- ≥ 20 TB
- Front-end network
- ≥ 200 Gbps Ethernet, public IP
- Delivery
- Bare metal, Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04
- Substitute
- HGX H200 141GB ×8, at par, at the seller’s option
- Window
- Monday 00:00 UTC to the following Monday 00:00 UTC, listed 2–8 weeks ahead
- Regions
- North America or Europe
- Tolerance
- ≥ 99% of node-hours; up to 1.68 h short is a pro-rata refund
- Cure
- A replacement node accepted within 4 h stops the damages clock
Every Thursday, one price clears each series
A call auction runs each Thursday from 8 weeks to 1 week before delivery. Bids are paid in full in USDC; asks are backed by the seller’s collateral and accredited nodes. Every order that fills pays the same price.
- Claims
- One claim per filled node-week, a Token-2022 token frozen until the holder’s KYC clears
- Before notice
- Claims move between allowlisted wallets or sell into a later Thursday’s auction
- Trade fee
- 0.5% of filled notional, paid by the buyer
Paid in before the week starts, with collateral locked behind it
The buyer’s USDC sits in the series escrow from the auction on. The seller’s collateral is locked against the same node-week, sized by how far away delivery is.
- Notice
Holders call request_delivery: claims burn into delivery tickets. Claims not converted are waived and the seller is paid for them.
- Assignment
The seller assigns an accredited node to each ticket. The buyer’s SSH key travels encrypted to the seller; only its hash goes on-chain.
- Acceptance
An inspector runs a 30-minute acceptance test and signs. The buyer confirms access; silence confirms after 2 hours.
- Delivery
Monday 00:00 UTC. The week starts through the waist.
Each hour of the week is signed for
The buyer’s Delivery Agent signs a heartbeat every minute; the seller’s Provider Agent logs BMC and DCGM telemetry. Every hour, the aggregator commits a root of both on-chain.
- Monday 00:00 UTC. The Delivery Agent on the buyer’s node starts signing a heartbeat every minute.
After a 24-hour challenge, escrow pays out by the hour
The committee posts a certificate for each ticket. Escrow goes to the seller for every certified hour; every hour short is refunded to the buyer, and past the 1.68-hour allowance the seller’s collateral pays damages on top.
- BuyerRefund $38.40 + damages $1.54 from collateralBelow 99%: refund and damages, ranked first
- SellerEscrow $3,187.20 less the 2.5% delivery fee → $3,107.52166 certified hours
- Collateral$837.12 of $838.66 unlockedBack to the seller after damages
Take part as a seller, buyer, trader, inspector or lender
Every wallet is approved for the roles it uses before it trades, in North America and Europe. The programs check that approval on every order, transfer and payout.
- SellerSells next month’s idle node-weeks today, backed by posted collateralKYB, accredited nodes, USDC collateral
- BuyerLocks in a node for a week ahead and runs on it when the week comesKYC, sanctions screening
- TraderHolds claims between auctions and sells them on before noticeKYC, allowlisted wallet
- InspectorAccredits nodes and signs each week’s acceptance and certificatesContract with Hourglass, USDC bond
- LenderAdvances USDC against a seller’s escrowed salesAllowlisted
Applications open with the app
You apply from the app with the wallet you will trade from, and the review team approves its roles. The onboarding guide shows each step and what every role needs.
Token
$HOURGLASS
The protocol’s token. Every fee the protocol keeps buys $HOURGLASS on the market and burns it.
- Supply
- 1,000,000,000
- Launch
- 100% public, on equal terms
- Trade · Delivery · Pledge fees
- 0.5% · 2.5% · 0.5%