AI Inference on PYRAX
AI inference is the runtime side of AI — serving trained models to answer prompts, score data, and drive agents — and it is now the dominant, recurring cost of production AI. PYRAX turns inference into a verifiable, pay-per-use market through PYRAX Compute: jobs are priced in compute units at a fixed 8 PYRX/CU, funded by on-chain escrow, and settled against a single ComputeReceipt whose result is checked by a 4-rung verification ladder rather than trusted blindly.
The market
Source: Grand View Research, 2024. Figures are indicative and provided for context.
What's broken today
How PYRAX transforms it
Concrete network elements mapped to this business.
PYRAX Compute verifiable inference (pay-per-CU)
Each request becomes a metered job priced at a fixed 8 PYRX/CU and bound to a ComputeReceipt that records the model, inputs digest, and output, so you pay only for the work actually performed.
4-rung verification ladder
Results climb from provider attestation, to redundant re-execution by independent workers, up to ZK proofs — you choose how strong a guarantee each job needs instead of trusting the endpoint blindly.
On-chain escrow settlement
Funds are locked in escrow at submission and released against a verified ComputeReceipt, so honest workers are paid atomically and disputed or failed jobs are refundable.
Compute-to-data + shielded transfers
Inference runs next to private data with prompts and outputs moved as shielded transfers, and a scoped viewing key lets an auditor confirm what ran without exposing the payload.
Local-first consumer-GPU workers
An RTX 3060-baseline runtime lets anyone contribute a GPU, and VRAM/trust-tier scheduling routes each model to a worker that can actually hold it, widening supply beyond the hyperscalers.
Buildathon: dApp ideas
Ship-ready concepts for ai inference on PYRAX.
ProofServe
01Verifiable inference gateway that returns each completion alongside a ComputeReceipt and a caller-selected verification rung.
EscrowInfer
02Pay-per-CU API where callers escrow PYRX per request and funds release only when the result verifies.
PrivatePrompt
03Shielded inference relay that hides prompts and outputs on-chain while issuing viewing keys to compliance reviewers.
ZKOracle
04ZK-proven model oracle that feeds smart contracts scores it can prove were produced by a specified model.
RouterMesh
05Trust-tier router that spreads inference across independent workers and re-executes a sample for redundant verification.
AgentLedger
06Autonomous-agent runtime whose every tool call and model step is metered and receipted for auditable spend.
EdgeServe
07Consumer-GPU inference pool that lets home RTX operators earn PYRX for served CUs with VRAM-aware scheduling.
FairDecline
08On-chain decision endpoint that attaches a verifiable receipt to model outputs so a disputed answer can be reproduced.