YOM’s payout model is session-based and usage-driven, aligning rewards with real player activity. Nodes earn in proportion to the sessions they host, not by farming idle tokens. This chapter covers how sessions are priced and how rewards are calculated and distributed.
Compute Tiers
Every session settles at a fixed per-session fee set by workload tier. The tier is the workload-difficulty signal: heavier titles (higher resolution, framerate, and GPU load) settle at a higher tier.
| Tier | Workload | Fee per session |
|---|---|---|
| Light | Mobile, 2D | $0.02 |
| Standard | Indie 3D | $0.05 |
| Performance | UE5 | $0.10 |
| Ultra | AAA 4K/60fps | $0.15 |
This blends to ~$0.13/hr of streamed compute, an order of magnitude below the ~$2/hr floor of centralized cloud. The network collects telemetry from every session to assign the right tier.
Flow of Value
Every session settled through the YOM protocol pays the per-tier fee, and the protocol distributes it on-chain instantly. Operators contract with the protocol, not with individual publishers. The YOM Foundation is the counterparty on reward distribution, which is what keeps payouts stable and predictable regardless of which commercial entity collected the customer’s payment.
| Stakeholder | Split | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Node operators | 40% | Paid directly to the operators who served the session. |
| YOM Foundation | 55% | Funds protocol operations, treasury, and ecosystem incentives. |
| Burn | 5% | Permanently removed from supply, keeping $YOM deflationary. |
This 40 / 55 / 5 split is the protocol’s economic invariant. It applies uniformly: Walter sessions, enterprise sessions, and any third-party aggregator settling through the network all pay the same split, on the same tiers.
Operators receiving rewards can hold to accumulate XP, provide liquidity on decentralized exchanges to earn farming rewards, or convert to cover costs. At moderate utilization a single node earns ~$58/month; a fully loaded 8-license host earns up to ~$466/month.
Pricing, Pegging & the Road to Regional Tokens
Session fees are priced in USD and settled in $YOM on Avalanche C-Chain today, with a single global token. This keeps operator rewards stable and predictable without depending on the token’s spot price.
Regional price discovery is on the roadmap, not live today. As transaction volume grows, the network plans to introduce regional tokens (e.g. $yEU, $yCHN) on a sovereign L1, each in a burn/mint relationship against $YOM, so that local markets can price compute independently while $YOM accrues value globally. That migration is gated on transaction volume reaching the threshold where a dedicated L1 outweighs the liquidity cost of leaving Avalanche (targeted 2027+). Until then, settlement stays on Avalanche C-Chain in a single global $YOM. See Tokenomics for the chain and token detail.
In short: your node earns by serving sessions, priced by workload tier, settled instantly on-chain, with a uniform, predictable split that does not depend on who sold the session or where the player is.