A shared, machine-readable market layer for buyers, sellers, operators, applications, and agents
Open infrastructure for modular compute markets
Open · Auditable · Traceable · Modular · Extensible · Sovereign
Research, security, and ecosystem relationships
One market core for many compute domains
Discovery, negotiation, settlement, and arbitration stay consistent while each domain defines machine-readable resources, terms, fulfillment, and evidence
Market order
Virtual machine domain contract
Versioned VM domain contract
Capacity + scheduling · Required
Shared market core
The order stays fixed. The selected domain changes only the vocabulary, fulfillment, and evidence inside it.
01 Discovery
Listings are published and buyers select candidates.
Storefront
Compute slice
Publishes attributed listings
Registry
Indexes published listings
Buyer
Aggregates candidates
Domain-defined ·listing + query vocabulary
- Compute slice
- image
- access
- lease intent.
02 Negotiation
The selected parties exchange signed rounds.
Buyer
Signs an acceptance or proposal
Participant-controlled agent policy
Signed RoundsLease termsAccept, Reject, Propose, TimeoutSelected Storefront
Signs a counter, acceptance, or rejection
Participant-controlled agent policy
Domain-defined ·ProvisionTerms + Terms
- Lease and provisioning terms stay pinned around listed price or a configured scalar total.
03 Settlement
A pluggable mechanism takes payment; the seller owns domain delivery.
Agreement
Accepted terms and explicit buyer commitment
Settlement plan
Payment obligations and applicable service duties derived from the Agreement
Payment settlement
The configured mechanism takes payment
Seller delivery
Provisioned machine
The seller fulfills the agreed domain result
Domain-defined ·delivery + result
- Capacity reservation and assignment.
- Seller-owned VM lifecycle.
- Machine access credentials.
04 Arbitration
Pluggable checks and authorities resolve configured conditions.
Authenticated evidence
Lifecycle evidence
Compatible check
Configured lease or service conditions.
Configured authority
Configured mechanism or authority when applicable.
Outcome
Domain-specific lifecycle outcome.
Domain-defined ·service promise + evidence + outcome
- Lease and machine lifecycle terms.
- Authenticated fulfillment and lifecycle records.
- Domain-specific lifecycle outcome.
Inspect the deal record before you commit
From market order to deal record: inspect attributable, signed, machine-readable, and domain-defined terms before settlement
Inspect the attributable, signed, and domain-defined terms that shape a listing.These are reference presentation records, not live Registry inventory or transactions. Listing terms, seller attribution, prices, proposal signatures, charges, and states are presented for inspection.
Select a market record. Inspect the fields that change by domain.
Virtual machine selected.
Domain contract · VM / GPU lease
Virtual machine
Virginia, US
$2.40 / GPU-hour
Configured scalar negotiation
Agreement record
- Publisher
- Publisher A
- Storefront
- Atlas storefront
- Registry
- Registry East
- Schema
- arkhai.compute.vm@1.0.0
- Resource
- 4× H100 80 GB
- Quantity
- 4 GPUs
- Duration
- 4-hour minimum
- Settlement
- Configured escrow
- Delivery
- SSH lease
Signed terms
Signed rounds available
Price changes; quantity, duration, and non-price terms stay fixed or validated.
Settlement + delivery
- Settlement
- Configured escrow
- Network
- Configured settlement network A
- Delivery
- SSH lease
- Evidence + outcome
- Defined by this domain contract
Payment commitment is separate from fulfillment. The domain defines the evidence, service handling, and outcome that follow.
Programmatic access
Inspect and sign through your interface
- CLI
- Signed HTTP
- Python
- External agent
Inspect source, terms, settlement, and delivery
Provenance
- Seller
- Seller A
- Publisher
- Publisher A
- Storefront
- Atlas storefront
- Registry
- Registry East
- Schema
- arkhai.compute.vm@1.0.0
- Published
- 2026-07-01T12:00:00Z
Resource
- Hardware
- 4× H100 80 GB
- Compute
- 192 vCPU
- Memory
- 2 TB RAM
- Network
- 100 Gbps fabric
- Access
- Buyer SSH key
Terms
- Rate
- $2.40
- Unit
- GPU-hour
- Quantity
- 4 GPUs
- Duration
- 4-hour minimum
- Delivery
- SSH lease
Fixed or validated
- 4× H100 80 GB
- 192 vCPU
- 2 TB RAM
- 100 Gbps fabric
- Buyer SSH key
Settlement
- Asset
- USD
- Network
- Configured settlement network A
- Mechanism
- Configured escrow
- Operator charge
- $0.80
- Protocol fee
- Defined by the selected mechanism
Domain delivery
- Capacity
- POOLS hold committed
- Fulfillment
- Provider fulfillment complete
- Credential
- Buyer SSH key issued
- Service
- Lease status available
Machine-readable deal
{
"market_data": true,
"listing_id": "vm-atlas-4x",
"kind": "virtual-machine",
"seller": "seller-a",
"publisher": "publisher-a",
"storefront": "storefront-atlas",
"registry": "registry-east",
"published_at": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
"domain": "virtual-machine",
"schema": "arkhai.compute.vm@1.0.0",
"location": "Virginia, US",
"availability": {
"asserted_by": "seller",
"state": "asserted-available"
},
"pricing": {
"mode": "configured-negotiation",
"advertised_rate": {
"decimal": "2.40",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$2.40"
},
"advertised_unit": "GPU-hour",
"quantity": {
"decimal": "4",
"unit": "GPU",
"display": "4 GPUs"
},
"duration": {
"decimal": "4",
"unit": "hour",
"display": "4-hour minimum"
},
"constraints": [
"4× H100 80 GB",
"192 vCPU",
"2 TB RAM",
"100 Gbps fabric",
"Buyer SSH key"
]
},
"negotiation": [
{
"stage": "advertised",
"status": "shown",
"actor": "seller",
"round": 0,
"signature": "seller-signature-00",
"occurred_at": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
"amount": {
"decimal": "38.40",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$38.40"
}
},
{
"stage": "buyer-proposed",
"status": "shown",
"actor": "buyer",
"round": 1,
"signature": "buyer-signature-01",
"occurred_at": "2026-07-01T12:04:00Z",
"amount": {
"decimal": "36.00",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$36.00"
}
},
{
"stage": "seller-countered",
"status": "shown",
"actor": "seller",
"round": 2,
"signature": "seller-signature-02",
"occurred_at": "2026-07-01T12:05:00Z",
"amount": {
"decimal": "37.20",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$37.20"
}
},
{
"stage": "agreed",
"status": "shown",
"actor": "buyer",
"round": 3,
"signature": "buyer-acceptance-03",
"occurred_at": "2026-07-01T12:06:00Z",
"amount": {
"decimal": "37.20",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$37.20"
}
}
],
"settlement": {
"asset_class": "USD",
"network": "Configured settlement network A",
"mechanism": "Configured escrow",
"operator_service_charge": {
"decimal": "0.80",
"currency": "USD",
"display": "$0.80"
},
"protocol_fee_treatment": "Defined by the selected mechanism"
},
"lifecycle": {
"advertised": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Published"
},
"proposed": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Buyer proposal signed"
},
"countered": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Seller counter signed"
},
"agreed": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Buyer accepted"
},
"settled": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Settlement submitted"
},
"fulfilled": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Credentials delivered"
},
"resolved": {
"status": "not-started",
"label": "No resolution invoked"
}
},
"delivery": {
"modality": "SSH lease",
"capacity": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "POOLS hold committed"
},
"fulfillment": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Provider fulfillment complete"
},
"credential": {
"status": "complete",
"label": "Buyer SSH key issued"
},
"service": {
"status": "current",
"label": "Lease status available"
}
},
"resource": {
"hardware": "4× H100 80 GB",
"compute": "192 vCPU",
"memory": "2 TB RAM",
"network": "100 Gbps fabric",
"access": "Buyer SSH key"
}
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