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XTAL

Compute markets

Compute power,
tokenised.

The microchip shortage isn't a supply problem — it's an allocation problem. XTAL turns verified GPU cycles into transferable on-chain units, so idle silicon anywhere on earth becomes compute you can buy, sell and settle in seconds.

Get $XTAL How the protocol works
2.4 EFLOPs
Compute indexed
18,400
GPUs onboarded
62%
Avg. idle silicon reclaimed

The shortage

The world doesn't need more chips. It needs a market for the ones it has.

01

Silicon is rationed

Foundry capacity is booked years out. New chips can't be conjured, so access is decided by procurement queues rather than need.

02

Most chips sit idle

Enterprise clusters, render farms and university labs run far below capacity. That unused throughput has no market to reach.

03

Capacity is illiquid

Compute is locked into multi-year contracts nobody can resell, transfer or price transparently.

The protocol

From bare metal to a liquid asset in four steps

XTAL is a settlement layer, not a datacentre. Hardware stays where it is — only the claim on its throughput moves.

  1. 01

    Attest

    Operators connect a cluster. The XTAL node benchmarks it and issues a signed proof of available throughput, memory and uptime class.

  2. 02

    Mint

    Verified capacity is minted into compute units on Solana — each one redeemable for a defined slice of GPU-hours at a given tier.

  3. 03

    Trade

    Units clear on an open order book. Builders hedge future capacity, operators monetise idle hours, prices become public.

  4. 04

    Redeem

    Burn a unit to schedule a workload. Settlement and slashing for missed SLAs happen automatically on-chain.

The token

$XTAL is the unit of account for compute

Operators stake $XTAL to attest capacity and are slashed for undelivered work. Buyers pay in $XTAL to mint or redeem compute units. Fees on every settlement flow back to the stakers securing the network — so token demand tracks real GPU-hours, not sentiment.

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Network
Solana (SPL)
Ticker
$XTAL
Total supply
1,000,000,000
Emissions
Capacity-linked

Contract address

XTAL9rJpwoPokY1p2KqGcuBULuKJ1BXiQYDNXEq7KoX

Questions

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