Dolphin: All Protocol Revenue to be Used for Market Buyback of POD, Holders Can Stake for xPOD Benefits

On May 12, AI laboratory Dolphin tweeted that the Dolphin Network utilizes a Peer-to-Pool architecture to repurpose idle GPUs, with each model running in a GPU pool and tasks randomly assigned to nodes, without direct buyer-seller binding. Nodes receive POD token rewards from the protocol treasury based solely on the number of inference tokens processed; users can purchase credits directly from the protocol, supporting payments in POD, ETH, BTC, USDC, XMR, and ZEC. All protocol revenue will be used for market buybacks of POD, directly offsetting inflation. For instance, for Qwen 3.6 35B, Dolphin charges users $0.70 per million tokens (lower than OpenRouter’s $1), pays nodes $0.50, resulting in a net buyback of $0.20. POD holders can stake into the xPOD treasury to receive automatic reinvestment dividends, daily inference quotas, and ecosystem subscription benefits. Node operators must stake forfeitable POD bonds equivalent to four weeks of income, with penalties for cheating resulting in corresponding deductions. The reward multiplier mechanism can reach up to 2 times.