Operator Guide

What is an Operator?

An operator is an independent infrastructure provider that deploys a Tangle Blueprint to serve AI model inference. Operators stake TNT as collateral, set their own pricing, and earn 80% of inference revenue.

How Routing Works

When a user sends a request for a model, the Tangle Router finds all operators serving that model and routes to the best one based on latency, uptime, and price. If an operator fails, the request automatically retries with the next-best operator.

Pricing & Revenue

You set per-token input and output prices for each model you serve. The platform takes a 20% fee and you keep 80%. Payments settle on-chain — no invoicing, no waiting.

Reputation & Slashing

Your reputation score is based on uptime, latency, and request success rate. Higher reputation means more traffic routed to you. Sustained downtime or SLA violations can result in stake slashing.

Requirements

• GPU hardware (NVIDIA A100/H100) or Modal/cloud account
• 10,000 TNT minimum stake
• Publicly accessible HTTPS endpoint
• Health check endpoint at /health
• <200ms response time from gateway