GRID network documentation

Operate a peer, mine verified work, inspect signed blocks, manage wallets, or build against the public data plane. These docs describe the running pilot and clearly separate it from the longer-term white-paper vision.

Current status: public Genesis-led pilot with P2P block verification. Permissionless block production and decentralized finality are not yet live.
Public API: https://grid-compute.com

Start with the system you need

Network architecture — Genesis, coordinator, P2P peers, blocks, and trust boundaries
Run a node — install GRID 0.2.18, initialize keys, join P2P, and mine
Proof of Resource — verified contribution, scoring, allocation, and settlement
Explorer API — chain health, blocks, settlements, capacity, and peers
Wallets & Ember — native GRID addresses and Solana devnet reward addresses
Registry and compute APIs — names, public capacity, identity, and privacy-preserving pings

Live network snapshot

curl

curl -fsS https://grid-compute.com/api/explorer \
  | jq '{checkedAt, health, chain: .chain | {chainId, height, tipHash}, rewards: .coordinator.rewards}'

curl -fsS https://grid-compute.com/api/mesh \
  | jq '{stats, genesis, peers}'

Public surface map

Area	Read	Write	Contains
Network Explorer	GET /api/explorer	—	Genesis health, blocks, settlements, rewards, mesh
Registry directory	GET /api/registry	—	Paid active names, node/compute roles, capacity stats
Mesh / globe	GET /api/mesh	POST /api/mesh/ping	Coarse lat/lng, class, region — never IPs
Computes	GET /api/registry/computes	POST /api/registry/computes	Slots, image labels, availability — no dial endpoints
Name registration	GET /api/registry/register	POST /api/registry/register	Name lifecycle + Cash App payment notes
Identity badges	GET /api/registry/entity	POST /api/registry/entity	Key / Verified public badges + optional cert JSON

Hard rules (read this)

Public visibility is deliberately narrower than internal network state:

No IPs, ports, hostnames, or tunnels in public registry/mesh JSON.
No private keys, vault material, or seed phrases — ever returned by these endpoints.
No payment rails except the public Cash App cashtag used for name activation fees.
Mesh pings are location-only and quantized for the map. They do not prove capacity or publish dial targets.
Registry listing requires activation plus human review. A globe ping alone does not list you.
Pilot rewards are test accounting and are not guaranteed income, market value, or an exchange listing.

Next: Getting started or read the network architecture.