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Render Network and DispersedRender Network Foundation—RNP-023 passes: Salad's 60,000-machine consumer GPU network joins Render as a subnetRender Network and DispersedRender Network Foundation—Render launches Dispersed, an AI compute subnet on decentralised GPUs, at Breakpoint 2025Render Network and DispersedRender Network Foundation—Salad completes the first two steps of its move onto Render: RENDER rewards and RENDER payments

Render Network Foundation

Decentralised GPU rendering and AI compute

KYnon-profitest. 2023renderfoundation.com (opens renderfoundation.com)Checked 11 Oct

The brief

Analyst view
  • OTOY launched RNDR in 2017; network public since 2020. By Dec 2025: 63 million frames rendered, over 1 million RENDER burned.
  • Dispersed, the brand for its AI compute subnet, went live in December 2025 for running AI models on rented GPUs.
  • Salad (about 60,000 daily active machines) became a subnet after an April 2026 vote; two of three steps live by July.

Technical approach

As reported
Market

Spare GPUs, rented by the job

Node operators offer idle graphics cards; creators send render or AI jobs, which are split across many machines and run in parallel.

Payment

Burn and mint

Jobs are priced in dollars. Buyers burn RENDER worth that amount; operators earn newly minted tokens on a fixed, declining schedule.

Software

Inside artists' tools

Jobs come straight from OctaneRender, Redshift, Blender Cycles and Cinema 4D, so artists use the network without leaving their workflow.

Subnets

Separate networks per workload

AI and general compute run on a separate subnet with its own rewards and hardware rules, apart from the rendering network; Salad runs as a further subnet.

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