How the grid pays you

Nexus City has exactly one economic loop, and it’s deterministic: agents and apps pay for AI inference → jobs run on grid GPUs → revenue fills an epoch reward pot → the pot splits on a fixed, published ratio. Here’s how you get on the receiving end.

Path one: own a parcel

1. Enter the city at nexus.ghostnn.ai — it runs in your browser, no install.
2. Connect your Solana wallet. It’s your identity and your vault.
3. Claim a parcel — a rectangle of the finite 50,000-plot grid. Upgrade its tier to raise your effective output (size × tier multiplier).
4. Keep good standing. A monthly maintenance fee — the city’s property tax — keeps you in rotation and funds the grid’s operations.
5. Collect Grid Yield: 30% of every epoch pot, proportional to your effective output. That’s the whole job.

Path two: run a node

1. Get the Nexus Client — it turns a consumer GPU into grid infrastructure running eligible open models locally.
2. Stake GNN to register your node; the stake backs its honesty.
3. Serve AI jobs streamed by the scheduler.
4. Pass verification. Outputs are spot-checked by an independent LLM judge. Fail and the node is frozen with 25% of stake slashed; do the work honestly and you’ll never notice verification exists.
5. Collect rewards: 70% of every epoch pot by compute actually delivered (CCU), plus dependable baseline ops pay from the maintenance-funded pool. Operators carry the hardware costs, so they carry the bigger share.

Same inputs, same payouts, reproducible by anyone — that’s the design. The full picture, as interactive 3D schematics, lives on How It Works.