Abakos connects people who need AI with GPUs that have spare power — and makes both sides better off than traditional clouds or empty crypto mining.
No crypto knowledge required. Pick your path below.
OpenAI-compatible. Drop in your editor. Pay less than OpenRouter or the big clouds.
Explore API →A simple AI chat. Sign in with email. Pay with a card. No wallet, no jargon.
Get early access →Earn stablecoins and tokens on paid jobs — not on wasted random math. Full rewards for real work.
Join as provider →When you use Abakos, your payment goes into escrow. A GPU runs your AI task and proves it. The miner earns your payment and a network reward — so you pay below market.
Other “useful mining” chains let GPUs grind random numbers because it's cheaper. Abakos only pays full rewards for work someone actually paid for.
How the network works →0%
useful AI output on the largest PoUW chain today — ~320,000 GPUs, ~112 MW (arXiv 2606.04819).
Abakos is built so that number can't stay at zero. See the difference →
We ship the chain layer first — Proof-of-Useful-Work with enforced usefulness at consensus — then add marketplace, API, and chat on a public testnet.
btcd fork, matmul PoUW kernel, reward-split. Internal & public testnet + explorer.
On-chain escrow, batch jobs, “% useful compute” on the explorer. Paid work enforced.
Developer API and consumer chat route real demand into the testnet marketplace.
Third-party security audit, then mainnet, token, and scale.
Pearl proved matmul PoUW alone isn't enough — miners earned more grinding random matrices. Abakos adds enforced usefulness: full rewards only for compute someone actually paid for.
PoFUW — Proof of Forced Useful Work — is our name for PoUW where usefulness is built into consensus economics, not optional. Miners need paid escrow jobs to maximize rewards.
PoUW checks that matrix work was done correctly. PoFUW (enforced PoUW) also requires that work to be tied to a paid, settled marketplace job — otherwise the protocol pays a fraction and burns the rest.
For clarity: “useful mining” chains can still produce 0% useful output. PoFUW signals that Abakos forces usefulness economically. We still use “PoUW” and “enforced usefulness” in docs and search — PoFUW is the short brand hook.
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