Whitepaper V1.0 — March 2026
DeRouter: The Decentralized AI Access Layer
A decentralized protocol that unlocks the world's idle AI compute. Millions of AI subscribers pay for capacity they never fully use. DeRouter lets them share that surplus and earn, while giving developers access to frontier AI models at a fraction of the cost — all settled on-chain, in real time.
The Opportunity
AI is the defining technology of this decade. Yet access remains deeply inefficient.
$10B+
Annual AI subscriptions
<30%
Average utilization
$7B+
Wasted compute / year
Developers, startups, and teams in emerging markets are priced out of frontier models. Claude Opus costs $75 per million output tokens. DeRouter bridges this gap — turning every AI subscription into a node in a global compute marketplace.
How It Works
Providers share their idle AI subscriptions and earn passively. Connect your wallet, authorize your Claude or Codex account in one click, and the protocol handles everything.
~$40/mo
Provider earns from a $20 subscription
$1.50/M
Seeker pays, vs $15/M official
60s
On-chain USDC settlement batches
Seekers access the same frontier models at up to 90% off official pricing through a single drop-in API key, compatible with Claude Code and Codex CLI.
Protocol Overview
Seekers → DeRouter Relay → Providers → AI APIs, with Solana settlement in 60-second batches.
Matching
Reputation-weighted, load-aware, with session stickiness for multi-turn conversations
Settlement
On-chain Solana program, 70/30 split enforced at the smart contract level
Security
Isolated containers, TLS fingerprinting, wallet-bound proxy IPs
Reputation
On-chain scoring — the more you serve, the higher your priority
Verifiable Settlement
Every request is billed as an individual record, then bundled into a periodic USDC settlement transaction on Solana.
Layer 1
Everything is public and live — the landing page renders settlement activity directly from the chain
Layer 2
Cryptographic commitment — a Merkle sum tree compresses each batch into one 32-byte root carrying the exact total
Layer 3
Anyone can verify — totals match, inclusion proofs, and tamper evidence, without trusting DeRouter
Roadmap
Phase 1 Foundation is live today. Phase 2 adds multi-model expansion and a developer SDK. Phase 3 decentralizes the relay network.
Phase 1 · LIVE
Provider matching, hosted containers, on-chain settlement, dashboards, CLI drop-in
Phase 2 · Growth
Solana mainnet launch, Gemini/Mistral/open-source models, Python & TypeScript SDKs, self-hosting
Phase 3 · Decentralization
DAO governance, decentralized relay network, cross-chain settlement, TEE tier, SLA bonds
Team
DeRouter is built by engineers from Google and TikTok with deep expertise in distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, and AI platform engineering.
The Airbnb of AI compute — where surplus becomes income, and access becomes universal.