Kvasir wiki

  • Kvasir network — A decentralized AI-inference network (DePIN) where everyday devices serve open models and earn KVR.
  • Hub — The control plane: discovers devices, plans layer placement, launches workers, orchestrates the ring.
  • Gateway — The public entry point: OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs and KVR pay-per-inference settlement.
  • Node — Any device serving a share of a model — GPU, CPU, NPU or phone — earning KVR for the work it does.
  • 443 relay — The data plane for NAT-bound devices: both ends dial outbound through a WebSocket bridge on port 443.
  • linkcpp — The source-available (BSL) control plane that turns everyday hardware into a distributed inference engine.
  • Ring runtime — Pipeline inference without a master: each device runs its layer window and passes only boundaries to its neighbor.
  • Layer window & partial shards — A node's contiguous slice of the model — downloadable as a mini-GGUF instead of the full checkpoint.
  • Mixture of Experts (MoE) — A model whose FFNs are hundreds of independent experts, only a few of which fire per token.
  • Expert sharding — Splitting a MoE at the expert grain, so a phone carries 42–340 MB of experts instead of a 1.4 GB layer.
  • Router authority — The swarm's coherence invariant: routing is decided once, on the backbone — workers only receive expert ids.
  • Numerical equivalence — Different backends never agree bit-for-bit; the swarm treats measured tolerance as a first-class contract.
  • GGUF — The quantized model file format inference engine uses — and the layout that makes partial and expert slicing cheap.
  • KVR — The network's utility token: developers spend it on inference, contributors earn it for compute.
  • Contribution units — The reward formula: units follow tokens served weighted by layer share, then scale by performance tier.
  • Performance tiers — Measured throughput sets a multiplier: S ×1.5 · A ×1.25 · B ×1.0 · C ×0.7.
  • Staking — Stake KVR to earn APR interest; 100,000 KVR staked qualifies a wallet to operate hub or gateway nodes.
  • Non-custodial wallet — Keys live only on the user's device — web, desktop, iOS and Android — and rewards settle straight to it.
  • SIWS + 2FA — Operator login is a wallet signature (Sign-In With Solana) over a server nonce, plus optional TOTP 2FA.
  • The KVR economy — How consumer cost and node reward form one self-reinforcing loop — the virtuous cycle that lets the network grow cheaper as it grows larger.
  • Inference pricing — What an inference costs in KVR today, why a decentralized network is structurally cheaper, and how price is meant to fall as supply grows.