Arca Grid is built on six load-bearing layers: pinned runtimes, signed releases, fast-sync overrides, autonomous allocation, thermal routing, and a custody-free payout plane. None of them are optional, and none of them are hand-tuned at runtime.
Pinned CUDA 12.0 runtime with production-verified tuning.
Every worker is shipped as a sealed OCI image with a pinned CUDA 12.0 runtime, driver-floor enforcement, and a curated kernel-tuning manifest. There is no in-place driver upgrade path — replacement workers ship with a new tagged image or they do not ship at all.
No runtime hot-swaps. Every release is cryptographically signed and tag-pinned.
Workers and orchestrators never patch themselves in place. Each release is built reproducibly, signed with our release key, and pinned by tag in the allocator's manifest. Rollback is a tag flip — never a hand-edit on a running host.
Bootstrapped chain archives eliminate server-hop sync delays.
Cold-starts pull a verified archive snapshot from the nearest mesh edge instead of replaying the chain peer-by-peer. The snapshot is hash-checked against the signed release manifest before the worker is allowed to attach to a payout address.
The allocator locks the cheapest qualified worker before your container ships.
A continuous bidder walks the mesh's spot inventory, filters on driver floor, thermal headroom, and uplink class, then locks the cheapest match against a signed lease. Margin gating happens server-side; the public API never sees the underlying provider quote.
Workers are migrated off hosts that breach per-class thermal ceilings.
Telemetry samples are graded against a per-class thermal ceiling. A breach drains the worker, signs a migration receipt, and rehydrates on a healthy host without losing the active payout binding. No silent throttling.
Payout addresses are injected as env, never persisted to host disk.
Wallet addresses are passed to the container as USER_WALLET at boot, kept in memory for the lease duration, and discarded when the worker drains. Arca Grid never takes custody of the underlying funds.
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