Idle Protocol

$IDLE is live on Solana. AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump Quick rundown on what it does and why it exists. IDLE Protocol takes 15% of every gateway payment. That fee is the entire token economy. 10% auto-swaps to $IDLE on Jupiter every hour and sends it to the burn address. 5% covers infrastructure and development. The other 85% goes straight to the resource owner's wallet, same block. Staking gives you a bigger cut. Base split is 85/15. Stake 10k $IDLE and you keep 87%. Stake 50k and it's 90%. 250k gets you 95%. The protocol adjusts your split ratio on the next payout. Burning $IDLE unlocks features: priority routing (your jobs match first), advanced task types, analytics on your gateway traffic, and custom endpoint domains. Priority routing means lower latency and higher uptime for your resources. The thesis: $IDLE supply can only go down. Every gateway call generates a burn. More resources on the network means more API calls, which means more fees, which means more buying pressure and more tokens removed from circulation permanently. The flywheel is mechanical, not speculative. earnidle.com/token

The world has a compute problem. $650 billion committed to new data centers in 2026. Half of it delayed or canceled. Not enough transformers. Not enough power. Grid queues stretching 7 years. The world needs compute desperately - and the infrastructure to build it is failing. We built the first live distributed compute network on Solana, powering inference for NVIDIA NIM, Mistral AI, and Google Gemini automatically. But IDLE had one problem. Running a node required a terminal command. On mobile - it was near impossible. That kept 4 billion phones off the network. We built the fix. And we built it on top of IDLE. IDLE Protocol is the foundation. The game is the door. Every player is a node. Every phone is infrastructure. Every session contributes to a global compute network that was already live, already paying out, already growing before the first player logged in. The first game where your device powers a real compute network while you play.

$650 billion committed to data centers in 2026. Nearly half of it delayed or canceled - not because of chip shortages, not because of funding, but because there aren't enough transformers and the grid can't handle it. The world needs compute. The infrastructure to build it takes 7 years and communities are actively voting it down. 4 billion phones and PCs are already on, already connected, already sitting idle. No permits needed. No transformers. No grid upgrades. IDLE Protocol turns all of it into a single distributed compute network. Inference, compute, web tasks, data, APIs - devices execute jobs and earn USDC on Solana automatically. The compute the world needs already exists, it just isn't connected yet. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

India is IDLE's largest node market - 38% of all active nodes on the network. The world's largest developer population is powering a global distributed compute network, earning USDC on Solana automatically for every task their device completes. Some protocols list numbers on their website. IDLE is listed on @Dune. - $11,032 distributed to operators - 140,566 on-chain transactions - 59,013 active nodes Every number pulled directly from Solana. Verify it yourself: dune.com/idle_protocol/…

Introducing IDLE Protocol PWA. The distributed compute network that pays you - now in your pocket. Any device. Any phone. Anywhere in the world. Your idle compute is worth money and it starts earning the moment you install. Install it in seconds. → Open earnidle(dot)com on your phone → Tap "Add to Home Screen" → Launch it like a native app No app store. No download. No waitlist. No hardware requirements. 29,000+ active nodes already earning. $9,500+ distributed to operators. 101,000+ on-chain transactions settled in USDC on Solana. Your phone is next. Fast. Lightweight. Always earning.

Our main X account has now been restored. Massive thanks to @X team for working with us on this.

While our X account was compromised, the IDLE network processed 140,566 transactions and distributed $11,032 to node operators without interruption. Here's what the network looks like right now: - $11,032 distributed to operators - 29,889 active network nodes - 140,566 on-chain transactions - 6 resource types: PC, GPU, Wallet, Agent, Data, API 14 days of uninterrupted growth. The protocol runs on Solana. It does not run on X. A social media account can be taken. The network cannot. dune.com/idle_protocol/…

One person. Four idle resources turned into paid API endpoints. $0.60 in gateway revenue. $1.02 already withdrawn to their wallet. No cloud bill. No infrastructure to manage. No permission required. Every phone, laptop, GPU, and idle device on earth has the same potential. IDLE is the protocol that connects all of it - routing demand, executing tasks, settling in USDC on Solana automatically. This is how the distributed compute economy works in practice. solana:AjLhrxN2yrCe45Y2KGPMZCkBm6NpN43jWqPkdZq6pump

(4/4) IDLE isn't competing with Cloudflare, NVIDIA, or Mistral. It's the distributed compute and payment layer that works alongside all of them. Every time a new infrastructure company opens an integration point, IDLE connects to it. The network becomes more useful with every addition without rebuilding anything. That's the compounding advantage of being the settlement and routing layer - not a competitor. Businesses and developers access the full compute catalog via API. AI agents discover and pay autonomously via the Coinbase x402 Bazaar, Agentic.Market, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and across the entire x402 agent discovery ecosystem. developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/con…

(3/4) IDLE is now live across every major compute and agent discovery platform simultaneously. Cloudflare AI Gateway - unified inference layer, 20% of all internet traffic Coinbase x402 Bazaar - AI agents pay autonomously in USDC Agentic.Market - agent commerce layer Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - AWS native agent infrastructure RapidAPI - 4 million developers, world's largest API marketplace And across the entire x402 agent discovery ecosystem Every integration adds a new demand channel to the same network. The more surfaces IDLE appears on, the more compute demand flows to node operators.

1/ IDLE x @Cloudflare AI Gateway. Cloudflare serves 20% of all internet traffic. Their AI Gateway is the unified inference layer routing developer requests to 14+ AI providers globally - OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google, and more. IDLE is now listed as a custom provider. Any developer using Cloudflare AI Gateway can route inference requests directly to IDLE's distributed compute network. 🧵 developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/con…

Google just made the biggest pricing shift in AI history at I/O 2026. Gemini is moving from monthly subscriptions to a compute-based model. Every interaction priced by complexity. Every task priced by compute consumed. Google is processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month - up 7x year over year - and their infrastructure still can't keep up. Compute is now the currency of AI. Not subscriptions. Not tokens. Compute. Google confirmed what we've been building toward. The world needs more compute. Centralized data centers can't scale fast enough. The next compute layer isn't a building - it's the world. 4 billion phones and PCs already built, already powered, already connected. Sitting idle. Earning nothing. IDLE Protocol turns all of it into a single distributed compute network. Contributors get paid in USDC on Solana every time their device completes a task. Google just priced compute as the future. IDLE is the compute that already exists everywhere. blog.google/innovation-and…

DePIN compute is a $1B+ sector. Render - GPU rendering. Specialized hardware only. ~$1B market cap. Akash - container deployments. Kubernetes required. ~$245M. io.net - GPU clusters. Specific hardware required. ~$48M. Every single one requires hardware most people don't have. IDLE - any phone, laptop, or PC. Joins in 60 seconds. 17 task types. $10,000+ paid out to operators already. The unlock is access. dune.com/idle_protocol/…

Good news - X has removed the malicious actor's posts and revoked their access to @IdleProtocol. We are now in the final stages of the recovery process and waiting for X support to restore our access. We will post immediately from @IdleProtocol the moment it is back in our hands. Thank you for your patience throughout this.

(4/4) The vision from the beginning was simple. Every idle device on earth - phones, laptops, GPUs, servers - connected to a single compute network, executing tasks, earning USDC, powering the AI economy without a single data center. Listed on the world's largest API marketplace. Discoverable by AI agents across every major agentic platform on earth. This is what that vision looks like in practice.

(3/4) IDLE compute is now accessible from every direction. For developers and businesses - discover and integrate via RapidAPI, or sign up directly at earnidle.com and get an API key. Pay per request. No crypto knowledge required. For AI agents - Coinbase x402 Bazaar, Agentic.Market, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and across the entire x402 agent discovery ecosystem - agents discover and pay autonomously in USDC. Whether you're a business routing inference through an API key or an autonomous agent discovering compute programmatically - IDLE is there. Same network. Same nodes. Same USDC settlement on Solana.

1/ IDLE is now listed on @Rapid_API. 4 million developers. The world's largest API marketplace. Backed by Nokia, a16z, and SoftBank. The same platform where developers discover Google, AWS, and Stripe APIs. IDLE compute is now in that catalog. 🧵 rapidapi.com/idleprotocol/a…

IDLE network has surpassed 100,000 total network transactions since launch. Here's where the network stands: - 74,467 active network nodes - 101,416 on-chain transactions - $8,958 distributed to operators - 6 resource types: PC, GPU, Wallet, Agent, Data, API Every task settles in USDC on Solana We're just getting started. Track it live on @Dune dune.com/idle_protocol/…