Overview

OpenInfra is an open-source hosting network (DePIN) where hosts provide compute and storage resources, earn on-chain rewards, and — at the vision’s end state — participate in a peer-to-peer network with no central authority. Users browse a catalog and deploy services onto host hardware.

It is built centralized-first, decentralized-by-design: a working centralized control plane ships today, with the architecture deliberately shaped so the trust-bearing pieces (ledger, host registry, rewards) can migrate on-chain as the network matures.

Status: beta — live worldwide service

The control plane runs at cp.seppelabs.com on a $5/mo AWS Lightsail micro. Two tenants are live, two settlement chains (Solana + Algorand), and the full workload lifecycle is monitored with Prometheus + Alertmanager. See Architecture for the full technical details and Live Status for the current topology.

Live on the network

Two tenants run on OpenInfra today:

ChessLabs Coach — Chess analysis and AI coaching. Uses the scale-to-zero pattern: a tiny always-on broker on the CP box holds the shared eval cache and serves the public ingress, then dispatches two metered batch services to Kuma (12 vCPU / 62 GB home box):

• analyze-batch — Stockfish on novel positions (~4s end-to-end)
• coach-batch — quantised LLM for coaching prose (~5-6s cold start)

Coledex — Trading card market data and analytics. Offloads heavy jobs to OpenInfra via batch workloads.

Full capabilities and roadmap → Architecture.

Where to next

• New here? Start with the Quickstart.
• Want to contribute compute? See Home-lab onboarding.
• Curious about the trust model? Read the Security model.
• The economic model lives in Tokenomics.