The Network is Operational. Bootstrapping Decentralized Network Activity Begins..
April 13, 2026 - Global - NuNet, a peer-to-peer protocol for discovering, orchestrating, and settling compute across distributed infrastructure, announces that Network Live - an operational decentralized compute network - has delivered on the technical commitments made in the Whitepaper 2.0 at the token generation event.
On March 2, 2026, NuNet inaugurated Network Live: the production release of a complete decentralized compute infrastructure built over four and a half years of deep research and development from first principles. In the weeks since, the network has been seeded with its first participants while the team delivered the remaining technical milestones - Cardano payment support alongside Ethereum, automatic provider onboarding, real AI workloads running on the network, and six minor releases hardening and extending the system. The technical whitepaper commitments are now delivered.
What is operational today is not a prototype or testnet. It is a live decentralized compute network where software finds compute autonomously across any device from edge to cloud, where every machine and participant carries a cryptographic identity verified at every interaction, and where orchestration and value exchange are unified in a single system - blockchain-agnostic, hardware-agnostic, and designed for multi-owner environments where no single entity controls all the infrastructure.
NuNet is not a cloud provider, not a GPU marketplace, and not a wrapper around existing tools. It is a compute orchestration and compute orchestration and coordination layer - built from first principles, not assembled from existing components. NuNet is designed as a unified system for decentralized compute orchestration.
Multi-Chain Integration
NTX transactions now flow on both Ethereum and Cardano. Compute providers and orchestrators can select their preferred blockchain when entering contracts. Each chain operates as a native settlement layer within the protocol - not a bridge or wrapped token arrangement. NuNet remains blockchain-agnostic by design, with the architecture built to support additional chains as required by use cases.
Open Provider Access
Compute providers can download the NuNet Appliance, configure their resources - CPU, RAM, disk, GPU - and join NuNet Live automatically after email verification. The Appliance is hardware-agnostic: it runs on a PC (Windows or Mac), a dedicated server, a Raspberry Pi, a cloud instance, or data centre infrastructure. If a machine has compute to contribute, the Appliance can onboard it.
Orchestrator access - the ability to deploy workloads onto the network - is currently approval-based, with the NuNet team working directly with each orchestrator to ensure responsible use of provider resources. This will open progressively as the network matures.
The Infrastructure Stack
What launched - and what continues to evolve in production - is a complete infrastructure stack built over four years of research from first principles:
NuNet Appliance - interface for onboarding compute, managing resources, and interacting with the network
nuActor System - zero-trust orchestration layer implementing the actor model of computation with open cryptographic identity for every machine, participant, and algorithm, verified at every interaction
nuContract System - cryptographically signed peer-to-peer contracts and blockchain integration enabling direct value exchange between participants, with support for contract chains for organizational deployments
Organization Manager - enables organizations to configure and manage their own subnetworks with custom requirements, governance, and contract templates
Dashboard - real-time network visibility, live dashboard.orgs.nunet.network
Every computation on the network is granularly identified, measured, and attributable. Trust is not assumed -- it is verified. Since March 2, six minor releases done -- hardening payment flows, improving node monitoring and observability, strengthening supply chain security, and optimizing performance.
From Protocol to Use Cases
With the technical foundation delivered, NuNet has entered its next phase: turning the infrastructure outward -- demonstrating capabilities across real industry verticals, polishing the platform in production, and supporting the bootstrapping of the network.
Since launch, the team has deployed real applications on the live network and shared them publicly with the community:
Private AI agents -- OpenClaw with Qwen and Ollama: a fully private AI agent deployed on NuNet in under five minutes, no cloud APIs, no data leaving the provider's machine
One-click AI agent ensembles -- Hermes Agent (NousResearch) with Telegram integration, deployable through the Appliance, blueprint published on GitLab
Edge AI inference -- Hermes Agent with Google's Gemma 4 (26B MoE) on a consumer RTX 3060 -- sovereign AI on your own machine, coordinated through decentralized infrastructure
Workflow automation -- n8n deployed on NuNet to run NuNet's own community support operations
Blockchain infrastructure -- ASI:Chain validator node deployment demonstration via NuNet infrastructure
These are real deployments with real compute resource discovery, orchestration, and NTX settlement.
NuNet is actively developing use cases, partnerships, and demonstrations across six target verticals:
Smart Infrastructure
- Paid innovation contract with AL'MA Action Logement (1M+ homes). Homepute369 PoC for decentralized energy AI -- complete and published. Next phase: physical deployment with NVIDIA-certified partner.
Edge AI and DePIN
- Auki Labs / Posemesh PoC delivered -- consumer device deployment validated. MoU signed.
Robotics
- Decentralized fleet orchestration and P2P inter-robot communication. Intercognitive Foundation founding member.
Private Agentic AI
- Multiple live demos on the network. No-code agent deployment, one-click LLM deployment, local inference on consumer hardware.
Web3 Compute
- 10 Cardano SPO partnerships. Catalyst-funded projects delivered. Multi-chain settlement live.
Sovereign Compute
- Initial enterprise demand explored and validated through early-stage engagements. Data center design partnerships in development.
These are verticals where centralized cloud solutions may be less suitable -- and where NuNet's protocol provides the most value. The protocol is the same; the applications are adapted to the industry.
Bootstrapping the Network Activity
NTX utility is now live. NTX is used within the protocol to facilitate settlement of compute transactions on a peer-to-peer, on-chain basis across supported networks such as Ethereum and Cardano. Orchestration, resource coordination, and contract settlement can be facilitated through NTX within the protocol. This reflects the intended functional role of the token within the protocol: facilitating compute transactions on a live network.
With the infrastructure delivered, the community is now in the driving seat. Contributing compute resources, deploying workloads, building applications on top of the protocol -- the network grows through the participation of its community, developers, partners, and organizations. NuNet's role shifts from building the foundation to supporting the ecosystem: maintaining the open-source protocol, developing tooling, working alongside participants, and designing protocol mechanisms that support participation and contribution to the network. This is how a decentralized system is meant to grow -- not by a single team delivering to a waiting audience, but by a community building together on shared infrastructure.
Network seeding is deliberately measured. NuNet is building toward real, sustained network utilization -- not artificial activity. The goal is a functioning network where compute resources are utilized and settled through the protocol, driven by genuine demand. As the provider base grows and orchestrators bring workloads, network activity will grow with it. Incentive mechanisms based on the protocol's capabilities and community involvement are being designed to support this growth -- details will be shared as they are finalized.
From the Founder
"For the past two decades, intelligence has lived in the cloud. Today, we make it possible for intelligence to live anywhere."
"In 2021, in our whitepaper, we saw this moment coming and committed to build the technology that will allow compute to be spread across all the devices in the world. Standing on the shoulders of giants of compute technology, we started to build -- and today, we put it into the hands of the world."
"The best way forward is to grow together as a living system that evolves with everybody's participation. This is why we build and bring these technologies as open-source and decentralized infrastructure."
- Dr. Kabir Veitas, CEO and CTO, NuNet
NuNet Foundation and NuNet Solutions
To support the network's growth, NuNet now operates as two complementary entities:
NuNet Foundation stewards the open-source protocol (Apache 2.0), maintains the network, and works with community developers and participants. The protocol's evolution depends on grassroots participation -- the community, constituents, and builders who use and extend the technology.
NuNet Solutions is the commercial arm, focusing on partnerships, use-case development, and enterprise deployments built on top of the protocol. Solutions contributes back to the open-source framework while building products and services for specific markets.
NuNet is a member of the Linux Foundation and the Intercognitive Foundation.
Safety Recommendation
NuNet Live is a public peer-to-peer network. We want people to join, and we want people to be safe. We recommend avoiding installing the Appliance on any computer that contains sensitive personal or business information. It is best -- especially for compute providers -- if the machine you onboard can be fully dedicated to NuNet.
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