Tenzro Network 1 · Launching 1 October 2026
The open network for the Machine Economy.
Inference, training, compute, storage, identity and payments in one open-source stack, run by independent operators and settled on a post-quantum ledger. Built for humans, agents and machines.
Why now
Machines have started to buy and sell work.
Agents now hold spending authority and act without a person in the loop. They buy inference, rent compute and pay for data at machine speed. That economy needs infrastructure that was designed for it: keys that live in hardware, payments metered per use, evidence instead of claims, and finality that stays safe when quantum computers arrive.
Tenzro was built for this from the ground up. Network 1 rebuilds it from the consensus up, on a fresh genesis, with one path for everything.
- Participants
- Humans
- Agents
- Machines
- Services
- Rails
- Settlement
- Consensus
- Hardware
- TPM 2.0
- Secure Enclave
- Passkeys
- TEEs
- GPUs
What is new in Network 1
Seven upgrades, one network.
Network 1 replaces the testnet that ran earlier this year. Everything below ships at genesis.
- 01Tenzro DAG Consensus (TDC)Our post-quantum consensus protocol. Every validator proposes in parallel each round, so no single leader limits the network.
- 02Keys that live in hardwareEvery key is rooted in a TPM, a Secure Enclave or a passkey. There are no key files and no seed phrases.
- 03Trust and provenanceCertification and ratings for models and operators, issued by anyone. You choose which issuers you trust and check the rest yourself.
- 04The Machine EconomyA compute price index in consensus, SLA-attested rentals and metered, per-use settlement, paid in TNZO or stablecoins.
- 05Inference for any modelPrefix and state reuse for every architecture class, behind OpenAI-compatible APIs for chat, embeddings, images, audio and video.
- 06Training for agentsDecentralised training with a chat fine-tuning objective for agent trajectories. Every round can be replayed from its seed.
- 07Closed by defaultOpen, owner and admin methods are separate. Anything that moves money or changes state needs a signature from the account that pays.
Operators
Put your hardware to work.
A gaming PC with a GPU, a homelab, a rack in a colocation centre or a whole data centre: the same software detects the hardware it lands on and joins the network. One stake covers every role a machine takes on, and TNZO pays for the work it serves.
Validator
Order and finalise the ledger. Any TPM 2.0 machine can run one; the signing key is rooted in the hardware.Role detailsRPC provider
Give applications, agents and wallets access to the network, and earn for the traffic you serve.Role detailsAI provider
Serve open models for inference behind OpenAI-compatible APIs, billed per use and settled on chain.Role detailsCompute provider
Rent out GPU and CPU capacity by the epoch, with SLA attestation and billing on the chain's verdict.Role detailsData and storage provider
Offer disk for storage and managed databases, paid per byte-epoch and backed by proof of retrievability.Role detailsSecurity provider
Host trusted execution environments so sensitive workloads run with hardware attestation.Role details
Who builds on Tenzro
An alternative to renting everything from one company.
Developers, researchers, regulated organisations and autonomous software use the same network, the same APIs and the same settlement layer.
Developers building AI applications
Open and frontier open-source models behind OpenAI-compatible APIs, priced by an open market instead of one provider's rate card.Learn moreRegulated industries
Choose where models, data and compute live, and see who served every request, under which policy, certified by whom.Learn morePrivate and sensitive workloads
Run inference and data processing inside attested hardware, with evidence you can check yourself.Learn moreModel builders and researchers
Rent capacity or train across distributed clusters. Every round can be replayed from its seed.Learn moreAgents and machines
Hardware-rooted identities, wallets with limits, and metered payments in stablecoins, so software can buy inference and compute on its own.Learn moreExchanges and bridges
Quantum-safe finality certificates that light clients, bridges and new nodes can carry and check.Learn more
TNZO
One token pays for the network.
TNZO pays every network fee and settles every transaction. Operators stake it to take on roles, earn it for the work they serve, and use it to govern the protocol. Supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000 TNZO.
Open source, stewarded
Owned by no single company.
The protocol and network primitives are open source under Apache 2.0. The Tenzro Foundation, a non-profit, stewards the protocol, its repositories and TNZO. Partners such as Tenzro Labs help operators of every background get onboard.
Get involved
Join Tenzro Network 1.
Anyone can operate, build on or use the network. It is permissionless and open source. Tell us how you want to take part and we will help you get started.
- OperatorRun a nodePut a GPU, a homelab or a data centre on the network and get paid in TNZO for the work it serves.Apply
- DeveloperBuild on the networkOpen models, OpenAI-compatible APIs, identity and payments in one stack, priced by an open market.Apply
- ResearcherTrain and experimentRun training across distributed clusters, with every round replayable from its seed.Apply
- PartnerPartner with TenzroIntegration, technical support and go-to-market partners who bring operators and builders onto the network.Apply