Outsource to the Grid — hire measured storage, RPC, GPU and FPGA — Taifoon

Outsource to the Grid

REAL · THE COORDINATION LAYER · everything here is served under one namespace at taifoon.io/v1 — 65 of its operations cover this page's subject. Machine-readable at /v1/openapi.json, and every endpoint with a working example is listed in the API overview.

TL;DR

The Grid is a pool of resources other people run and we measure— storage proven by challenge, RPC endpoints probed every five minutes. You can ask it for a quote and record a hire today, from HTTP, the MCP server or the n8n node. The price is the oracle's live rate (supply × demand), published with its rule. Settlement is NOT_DEPLOYED: a hire is a record, and every body says so.

Join the Grid · share a resourceReading the rate…One command, no account, no staking — points for what we measure.Calculate what you'd earn →Outsource to the Grid · hire a resourceReading the quote…Storage, RPC, GPU, FPGA — from an API, an MCP tool or an n8n node.a quote is a quote · settlement NOT_DEPLOYEDHow outsourcing works →

01WHO THIS IS FOR

Who this is for

Four kinds of buyer, one API. Pick your door.

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Builders & agents

One call for a quote, one to record a hire. The MCP tool and the n8n node return the same body your script gets from the HTTP route — no SDK to learn.

GET /api/grid/hiretaifoon_grid_hiren8n Quote

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Teams & workflows

Hire storage or an RPC endpoint per job from a workflow, branch on the outcome, and keep the record. The n8n community node ships a ready workflow.

/grid/n8n-hire.jsonPOST /api/grid/hiresettlement design

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Data centers & operators

You are the supply side. Three or more measured resources make an Operator; every unit-hour a hirer asks for raises the rate your fleet is paid, by the published rule.

/joinTAIFOON_SHARE=onOperator

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Device & edge makers

A container per device joins the same swarm. Storage earns from the first verified challenge; GPU and FPGA are ranked honestly at zero until their work can be verified.

taifoon/nodestorage firstranked kinds

02HOW A HIRE WORKS

How a hire works

Step	What happens	Where	State
1 · Quote	units × hours × the live per-unit-hour rate for the kind, split 70 / 20 / 10 under the TSUL	GET /api/grid/hire?kind=storage&units=2&hours=24	REAL
2 · Record	the same quote written to the oracle ledger under your hirer wallet, with the usable providers it was made against; it raises the demand multiplier for the next 24 h	POST /api/grid/hire {kind, units, hours, hirer}	REAL
3 · Settle	USDC over the x402 handshake, escrow captured per verified probe, released to providers that answered	/docs/grid-settlement	PROPOSED

A quote is a quote

Nothing is charged, escrowed or promised by a quote or a record. The record exists so the demand side of the rate is real — every hire asked in the last 24 h raises what providers of that kind are paid — and so the settlement design has a ledger to settle against when its gates are ticked.

03WHAT YOU CAN HIRE, AND WHAT IT PROVES

What you can hire, and what it proves

Kind	How we know it is real	Hire today	Earns today
Storage	Merkle commit of a seed-derived blob + random chunk challenges every few minutes	yes — usable providers are the ones that answered the last challenge	yes
RPC endpoint	eth_chainId matches the claimed chain; the oracle probes it every 5 minutes itself	yes — by chain	yes
GPU	keccak challenge (ranked); NVIDIA attestation when Confidential Computing is on (PROVEN)	not yet — no verified GPU work to sell	ranked, 0
FPGA	lane challenge, digest recomputed (ranked); no vendor attestation exists	not yet	ranked, 0

Usable is the set a hire is offered against: probed at least once, the last probe passed, not stale, not in backoff. It is the same set GET /api/grid/pool counts and the same set that is paid.

04WHAT THE PRICE FOLLOWS

What the price follows

The oracle pays a provider 10 GRID per paid probe (one per resource per hour) times a bonus, and a hirer pays the same per unit-hour. The bonus is supply × demand: an empty kind pays most and the bonus decays as providers join; every unit-hour hired in the last 24 h raises it against the usable supply, capped. The oracle publishes the rule text with the numbers it derives from at GET /api/grid/pool; this page restates none of them on purpose — read the live body.

1 GRID = 0.001 USDC is the unit vendors already price in. The 70 / 20 / 10 split (providers that answered probes / reviewers / ecosystem) is the Taifoon Sustainable Use License.

05THREE DOORS, ONE BODY

Three doors, one body

Door	Quote	Record
HTTP	GET /api/grid/hire?kind&units&hours	POST /api/grid/hire with hirer
MCP	taifoon_grid_hire	taifoon_grid_hire + hirer
n8n	operation Quote	operation Hire

Every door returns settlement: NOT_DEPLOYED, the usable providers the quote was made against, and the bonus in force. Details and the n8n workflow: Agents on the Grid.

06HONEST LIMITS

Honest limits

What is not here

No payment moves. GPU and FPGA cannot be hired because no verified work exists to sell. Region is never self-reported and not yet measured, so you cannot pick a geography. Providers can leave at any time — a hire is offered against the usable set as it stands, re-read the pool before you depend on it.