Nosana (NOS)

Overview

Nosana is a marketplace for computing power. It connects people who own graphics processing units, or GPUs, with developers who need those machines to run artificial intelligence (AI) software. A GPU can handle many calculations at once, which makes it useful for tasks such as generating images, transcribing speech, and running AI models. Nosana brings GPUs from different owners into one network instead of relying on a single cloud provider. (learn.nosana.com)

The network uses Solana to coordinate jobs and payments. Its native token, NOS, helps pay for computing work and reward participants. The computers run the workloads, while blockchain programs record and manage parts of the marketplace. This mix of physical hardware and blockchain software makes Nosana an example of a decentralized physical infrastructure network, often called a DePIN. (learn.nosana.com)

History & Team

From software tools to GPU computing

Jesse Eisses and Sjoerd Dijkstra founded Nosana in 2021. Eisses studied AI at the University of Amsterdam and has a background in blockchain development. Dijkstra’s background includes software engineering and work with languages and tools such as C++, Rust, Python, and Kubernetes. Their shared goal was to create a network where hardware owners could provide computing power and be paid for useful work. (learn.nosana.com)

Nosana’s early plans centered on computing for software development. As demand for AI grew, the project shifted its focus toward GPU workloads. It tested GPU hosts, job matching, and network tools before opening its GPU marketplace to the public on January 14, 2025. The project’s published token allocation includes a pool for private-sale backers, alongside allocations for the team, company development, and network participants. (nosana.com)

Technology & How It Works

Matching jobs with GPUs

A developer submits a job: a description of the software to run and the resources it needs. Nosana’s job format can specify a container image, commands, memory needs, and GPU requirements. A container packages software with the files it needs to run. The network matches the job with a suitable GPU host in a GPU market, and that host carries out the work. (learn.nosana.com)

GPU markets group machines with similar capabilities. This matters because a small model and a demanding video-generation task may need very different hardware. Developers can submit work through a web dashboard, a command-line tool, an API, or a software development kit. They can also use templates that reduce the setup needed for common models. (learn.nosana.com)

Nosana’s Solana programs handle functions including jobs, rewards, and staking. Job activity can be inspected through Nosana Explorer, which shows events such as when a job was posted, picked up, and completed, together with related transaction records. The AI work itself runs on hosts’ machines rather than on Solana. (learn.nosana.com)

Becoming a host

Hosts run Nosana’s node software and supply compatible NVIDIA GPUs. The project’s host guide lists consumer and professional cards, including some RTX models and data-center GPUs. It recommends a native Linux installation and sets requirements for memory, storage, and internet connectivity. Hosts can monitor their machines and earnings through Nosana’s host tools. (learn.nosana.com)

Tokenomics & Utility

Supply and distribution

NOS is a fungible Solana SPL token with a fixed total supply of 100 million tokens. Its documented original allocation covers seven groups: 25% for company development, 20% for the team, 20% for rewards to nodes running workloads, 17% for private-sale backers, 10% for liquidity, 5% for airdrops, and 3% for the public sale. The project’s distribution plan set different release periods for several of these groups. These percentages describe the original allocation, rather than the amount held by each group today. (learn.nosana.com)

NOS links users of computing power with the people who provide it. Developers can use tokens to fund deployments, while hosts can receive NOS for running jobs. Nosana also offers platform credits for compute; its payment tools support buying credits with NOS or USDC. When a user interacts directly with Solana programs, SOL pays the blockchain transaction fees. (learn.nosana.com)

Staking and governance

Holders can stake NOS through Nosana’s staking program. Staked tokens are held in a program vault, and the amount staked and chosen unstaking duration help determine an xNOS score used for activities such as governance. The staking program also provides rewards. Nosana’s governance process has allowed eligible token holders to vote on proposed changes to network incentives. (learn.nosana.com)

Ecosystem & Use Cases

Nosana’s central use case is running AI inference. Inference means using an already-trained model to produce an answer or output from new input. A developer might use a hosted GPU to run a writing assistant, turn speech into text, analyze documents, or create images. Nosana’s tools also support longer-running deployments that create and manage jobs over time. (learn.nosana.com)

The range of work extends beyond text. Nosana has added ready-to-run templates for video, music, and AI-agent models. Its network has also contributed spare GPU capacity to Folding@Home, a distributed scientific-computing project. By January 2026, Nosana reported that its network had passed three million completed jobs and three million job-hours. Those milestones describe work completed on the network, rather than a measure of how many customers it has. (nosana.com)

Developers can build services on top of the marketplace rather than rent a GPU for each task by hand. Nosana’s grants program supports projects working on AI applications, infrastructure, and developer tools. Its reported collaborations include OpenGPU, which routes AI workloads, and Voight, whose agents use Nosana GPUs and NOS-funded compute top-ups. (nosana.com)

Advantages & Challenges

Nosana can make computing capacity available from machines owned by many different hosts. This gives developers another way to find GPUs without buying and maintaining their own. Its markets, templates, dashboard, and developer tools provide several paths from choosing hardware to running a workload. For owners of compatible equipment, the marketplace offers a way to put available GPU time to use. (learn.nosana.com)

A distributed network also has practical demands. Hosts have different hardware, connections, and operating conditions, so the marketplace must match jobs well and deliver dependable service across many machines. Developers may need to select a suitable GPU market and understand a model’s memory needs. Hosts must meet the project’s hardware and software requirements. Nosana has worked on benchmarking, hardware checks, pricing, and deployment tools to address these parts of the experience. (nosana.com)

Where to Buy & Wallets

NOS is available on Kraken and through Solana-based swaps, including Raydium. Nosana’s wallet documentation also describes swapping for NOS within Phantom and Solflare. Exchange access and supported payment methods depend on a user’s location and the platform. (kraken.com)

Phantom and Solflare are supported browser wallets for connecting to Nosana’s dashboard. A wallet used for direct on-chain deployments needs NOS for compute payments and SOL for Solana transaction fees. Nosana identifies its NOS token by the Solana mint address nosXBVoaCTtYdLvKY6Csb4AC8JCdQKKAaWYtx2ZMoo7, which distinguishes it from tokens with similar names. (learn.nosana.com)

Regulatory & Compliance

Nosana’s terms identify Nosana BV as the company providing its website and platform services. They set conditions for clients and hosts, including rules concerning sanctions and the handling of data processed on hosts’ machines. These operating terms sit alongside the laws that apply where a participant lives or runs a business. (nosana.com)

In the European Union, the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, or MiCA, sets rules for firms that provide covered crypto-asset services, including authorization requirements. In the United States, the treatment of a crypto asset under federal securities law depends on the asset and the transaction involving it; the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an interpretation on that topic in March 2026. These frameworks concern activities and services as well as tokens, so their application depends on the circumstances. (esma.europa.eu)

Independent Islamic-finance screening services have assessed NOS. Sharlife lists it as Shariah-compliant, and Halal Trading Room classifies it as permissible under its screening approach. Their classifications consider the token within a network that provides computing services. Questions about a particular staking arrangement or use of the network can be assessed as part of a more specific Shariah review. (sharlife.my)

Future Outlook

Nosana’s development centers on making distributed GPUs easier for developers to use and more useful for real applications. Recent work has included a shared funding vault for deployments, a clearer job-history view, and more ready-to-run AI templates. Expanding the range of supported workloads also creates more ways for developers to use the network’s hardware. (nosana.com)

The project’s next steps depend on both sides of its marketplace: developers bringing repeat workloads and hosts providing suitable, reliable GPUs. Its grants, integrations, and work on deployment tools are aimed at bringing those groups together. NOS remains part of that system through compute payments, host incentives, staking, and governance. (nosana.com)

Summary

Nosana brings independent GPU owners and AI developers into a Solana-based computing marketplace. Its network runs jobs on distributed hardware, while NOS helps coordinate payments, rewards, staking, and governance. The project’s place in the crypto ecosystem rests on a concrete service: making GPU computing available to people building and running software. (learn.nosana.com)