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About

A network worth participating in.

iogrid is a mesh network where you can rent out the idle capacity of your PC or Mac — bandwidth, CPU, GPU, or a few hours of Xcode CI. We exist because the existing players in this market have spent a decade hiding what they do with their users’ hardware. We’re building the opposite.

Principles

  1. 1. Transparency is a feature, not a slogan. Every byte that transits a provider’s IP is labeled by category, customer, and destination. Providers can block any of those three at any time. The audit log is cryptographically signed and replicated to customer invoices.
  2. 2. Provider consent is granular. Coarse opt-ins like “allow proxy traffic” aren’t enough. Providers choose which workload categories are eligible for their hardware — and switch them on or off without uninstalling anything.
  3. 3. Multi-currency payouts. Cash via USDC + bank off-ramp, free VPN minutes, $GRID tokens with optional long-term vesting, or charity match. Pick the one that maps to your goals. We never force providers into a currency we control.
  4. 4. Anti-abuse is upstream. CSAM, phishing, fraud, sanctions-list traffic — blocked before bytes leave the gateway. The same filter rules run on the provider’s daemon for auditability. We’d rather lose a customer than route their abuse.
  5. 5. Power asymmetry favors the supplier. Almost every network in this category is structured to benefit its customers over its providers. We invert that. Providers can kick customers off their hardware. Customers can’t kick providers out of the network.
  6. 6. Open source where it matters. The provider daemon is AGPL-licensed in Phase 1, so anyone can verify what their hardware is doing. The audit verifier and category classifier are open-source too. The coordinator microservices stay source-available for operational reasons.

What we do not do

  • We do not sell residential bandwidth to defense contractors, influence-operations consultancies, or ad-tech firms whose business model is profiling.
  • We do not promise providers a fixed income. Earnings depend on customer demand, geographic distribution, and the workload mix the provider opts into.
  • We do not promise $GRID will appreciate. It might. It might not. Read the $GRID page for the honest version.
  • We do not sell, share, or rent customer audit logs to third parties. They’re generated for the customer, the involved provider, and our anti-abuse system. That’s it.

Contact

Press, partnerships, abuse reports, and legal: hello@iogrid.org. Provider and customer support: in-product, or support@iogrid.org. Security disclosures: security@iogrid.org.