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Warden Protocol

GPU marketplace · Tier 2 · API Live

Seeded record — this provider has not yet been through the independent verification pass. Treat every claimed/unverified field below as unconfirmed.

Identity

CategoryGPU marketplace
Tier2
Record statusUnverified
First tracked2026-08-24
Last checked2026-10-12
Last changed2026-10-12
Websitehttps://wardenprotocol.org
Aliaseswardenprotocol, Halo

Warden Protocol's Halo product is a peer-to-peer marketplace where participants run AI inference requests for onchain agents and are paid in USDC — a decentralized, BitTorrent-like model for compute rather than a fixed-endpoint gateway. Public materials cite early public-alpha volume figures for Halo. No independent check of throughput, participant count, or payment flows has run for this seed batch.

API

FieldValueGradeNote
OpenAI-compatible—Unverified—
Endpoint—Unverified—
StatusliveClaimedRoster: 'Live (agent compute)', citing the Halo P2P marketplace.
Models—Unverified—
Access—Unverified—

Privacy

FieldValueGradeNote
MechanismDecentralization (no SPOF)ClaimedP2P AI compute marketplace for onchain agents; no confidentiality-specific mechanism claimed.
Attestation independently verifiablefalseN/A—
Zero-retention—Unverified—

Scale

FieldValueGradeNote
Tokens/day—Unverified—
ARR estimate—Unverified—
Pricing published—Unverified—

On-chain

FieldValueGradeNote
TokenWARDClaimedHalo participants are claimed to earn USDC for fulfilling inference jobs; on-chain flows not queried.
Self-dealing flag—N/A—

Change log

  • 2026-08-24 — record: seeded from provider roster v1.0 (Unverified) (source)
  • 2026-09-14 — api.models: X claim (a_launch): $HALO is live on Robinhood Chain. First stop beyond Base. Official CA: 0xF4F0d634915a522f05ec0B89064950e91E435565 (Claimed) (source)
  • 2026-10-12 — api.models: X claim (a_launch): Have a conviction? Post it & earn from it! Up to 36% platform fee for every trade made through your post. Now available on Token Terminal. (Claimed) (source)
  • 2026-10-12 — onchain.token: X claim (h_governance): 1/ 1.1 or 1.25B hard cap is what community wants . But they also want measures 2-6 so this might pass which is a shame. This won't be only opportunity to pass 2-6 . Vote NO! Once 2Billion hard cap set can't be undone. Do what's best for WARD VALUE! 1.1B hardcap!! (Claimed) (source)

The change log is append-only: corrections are recorded as new entries, never rewrites. Full feed via /api/v1/changes.

Sources

  1. [roster] docs/decentralized-inference-provider-roster.md (2026-08-24)
  2. [website] https://wardenprotocol.org (2026-08-24)
  3. [x-account] https://x.com/wardenprotocol (2026-08-24)

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