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YOM puts GPUs next to every user: a decentralized edge network that turns idle consumer GPUs and telco racks into one compute grid, with nothing booked ahead. Games and live AI are paid per session, your own containers by the hour. Gaming is the first workload because it is the hardest real-time one, and the same network is built for live AI next. YOM connects idle GPU resources from self-hosted and delegated nodes to studios, brands, and broadcasters at a fraction of centralized cloud cost.

YOM runs on a network of gaming machines (nodes) running our custom Node OS, which stream sessions to end users. Studios, platforms and players pay per streamed session, and partners running their own containers pay by the hour. The operator whose GPU served a session earns 60% of its fee: a fixed share, set in dollars and paid in $YOM.

• Node Operators: Earn 60% of every session your GPU serves.

• Community Members: Earn XP, hold on to your payout to share in the community pool, and vote on the supply programme once token-holder voting opens.

• Studios & Platforms: Use YOM to stream your game or app to any browser, next to your players, at a fraction of data-centre cost.

1. Self-Hosting (available now):

   • Plug a NANO into your gaming PC, or set up the node via a manual installation on your gaming rig.

2. Extra licences:

   • Licences put more of your machine’s capacity into service. A new licence is $125.

• GPU: Any NVIDIA RTX config (2060RTX and higher) with high VRAM to maximize node capacity.

• CPU: Intel i5/i7 or AMD Ryzen 7/9 for better multitasking and stability.

• RAM: 16GB would be sufficient on low config setups, but 32GB+ is recommended.

• Storage: No storage needed for plug n play solution. For custom Linux boot deployment: 1TB+ available space needed.

• Internet: Wired Ethernet connection with at least 20 Mbps of measured upload.

Earnings depend on the sessions your node serves. At the network’s 50% utilization target:

• Per NANO: about ~$53 per month before electricity.

• Per host: calculated from the measured capacity of your hardware. Run the free PC check for your result.

• Payback: about ~7 months for a NANO. The live figures are on /operators and follow every model release.

A NANO is $349 and includes 2 licences, enough for one Standard session; each new licence ($125) unlocks one unit of capacity, the size of one Light session. Operator pay is a fixed share of each session fee, set in dollars and paid in $YOM, and scales with the sessions your node serves. These are estimates, not guarantees: the network is still growing toward its target, so earnings today are lower. How capacity and licences work: Node Licenses.

Costs include:

• Hardware: a new rig or the gaming PC you already own.

• Electricity: the power your GPU draws while it serves sessions.

• Licences: each node licence puts one more unit of your machine’s capacity into service.

YOM offers:

• Cost Efficiency: Pay per session, $0.04 to $0.24 by compute tier: a Standard session of up to an hour costs $0.08, against about $1.23 for the same hour on a data-centre GPU reserved for the peak.

• Scalability: Use a growing network of nodes without infrastructure investment.

• Ease of Integration: Embed streams directly into websites, apps and platforms with an iframe.

• Your Brand: Present the stream under your own brand.

HyperOrch, YOM’s edge orchestrator, sends each session to the nearest node with the GPU capability and free capacity it needs. Players within 50 km of a node see a median one-way latency of about 15 ms; sub-10 ms is the target.

YOM prices streaming per session and containers per hour, each with a fixed price by workload tier:

• $0.04 / $0.08 / $0.16 / $0.24 per session for Light / Standard / Premium / Ultra streaming, games and live AI; a session runs up to an hour.

• $0.12 / $0.24 / $0.48 / $0.72 an hour for a Light / Standard / Premium / Ultra container (YOM Containers), billed while it runs.

• Hosting Slot at $89 a month: 2,300 credits (1,150 Standard sessions) and one workload; usage beyond that is $0.048 per credit.

Playable ads and ad-supported sessions are on the roadmap rather than live today. The same embeddable streaming that powers free demos (Discovery) can carry pre-session or playable-ad formats, and we will expand ad-supported models once network density supports it. Until then, publishers pay per session or through the Hosting Slot, and Walter subscriptions (the Compute Pass) bill from January 2027.

$YOM settles every session on the network:

• Operator pay: operators are paid in $YOM, a fixed share of each session fee set in dollars.

• Community share: 5% of every session fee is shared with everyone who holds on to their payout.

• Retired: 5% of every session fee is retired permanently.

• Liquidity: $YOM has its primary market on Avalanche.

XP is a non-transferable contribution score earned by contributing to the network. It is used to:

• Rank contributors on the leaderboard.

• Weight token-holder votes on the supply programme once voting opens.

XP does not change which sessions your node serves or what it earns.

No new tokens are minted beyond the fixed total supply of 750,000,000 $YOM, and 5% of every session fee is retired permanently.

Earnings follow the sessions your node serves:

• Keep your node online and reliable, on a wired connection.

• A more capable machine has more capacity, and the free rig check measures it.

• Each extra node licence puts one more unit of that capacity to work.

Token-holder voting on the supply programme is the next governance step (see roadmap). When it opens, holders will vote on:

• Operator incentive rates.

• Treasury allocation.

• Hardware standards.

• Grant approvals.

Today a council of three founder representatives runs the network’s settlement contract and sets the supply-programme parameters, treasury allocation and grants. Token-holder voting comes next, with each vote weighted 67% by XP and 33% by $YOM holdings, so the operators doing the work help steer the network. Community-elected council members then begin replacing founder representatives.

You can engage with YOM through:

• Joining discussions in Discord and Telegram.

• Earning XP, which will weight your vote when token-holder voting opens.

• Running community events to onboard new users and expand the ecosystem.

• Ensure your wallet is properly connected.

• Verify your internet connection and reboot the system.

• Contact YOM support if the issue persists.

• Ensure proper cooling and power efficiency.

• Use high-speed wired internet connections.

• Regularly monitor performance metrics through the dashboard.