Render

The Render Network is a decentralized marketplace for GPU compute. It connects people who own idle graphics hardware with artists, studios, and developers who need to run heavy workloads such as 3D rendering, visual effects, machine learning training, and generative AI inference.

The project grew out of OTOY, a cloud graphics company known for the Octane rendering engine, and was founded by Jules Urbach. The original use case was rendering: producing a complex 3D scene can take enormous compute time, and studios often need it in bursts rather than continuously. Distributing that work across many independent GPUs turns a capital expense into a variable one.

How the network works

A creator submits a job and pays in RENDER tokens. Node operators who have registered their GPUs pick up the work, complete it, and receive payment. The network includes reputation and proof mechanisms so that submitted results can be checked and unreliable operators lose standing. Jobs are tiered so that more sensitive or higher-priority work can be routed to more trusted nodes.

Render originally issued its token on Ethereum as RNDR and later migrated to Solana under the RENDER ticker, using a burn-and-mint equilibrium model. In that model tokens paid by users are burned while new tokens are minted to pay node operators, so net supply change depends on the balance between demand for compute and rewards paid out.

Supply and context

RENDER has a maximum supply of 644,245,094 tokens, with roughly 519 million circulating. The project is one of the more established names in the decentralized physical infrastructure category, and its relevance has broadened as demand for GPU capacity has extended from graphics into artificial intelligence workloads.