LinqAI

LinqProtocol, built by LinqAI, is a decentralized cloud compute marketplace for real application workloads, not GPU rental. Buyers deploy production infrastructure, containers, services, storage and networking, using standard Kubernetes tooling, onto a permissionless network of independent compute providers. If it runs on Kubernetes, it runs on LinqProtocol unmodified: no proprietary SDL, no bespoke task API, no rewrite. Payment flows peer to peer through smart contract escrow, released to providers only on delivery, verified rather than trusted.

LinqProtocol is the only decentralized cloud compute protocol whose marketplace escrow is secured directly by Ethereum-mainnet smart contracts. Buyer funds are held by neutral on-chain contracts, not a marketplace-operated chain and not a token the platform controls, which means the security of every escrow is Ethereum's own, independent of LNQ's price or LinqAI's infrastructure.

It is also the first protocol to turn GitOps reconciliation into a verification layer. GitOps, the declarative, Git-based deployment standard used by platform teams industry-wide, is built for reliability inside teams that trust each other; LinqProtocol extends it into a trust primitive between parties who don't. Desired state is version-controlled and content-addressed; provider nodes continuously reconcile against it; watcher nodes attest to that reconciliation on-chain, anchoring what a buyer ordered against what is actually running, for the life of the lease rather than at deployment alone. The result is continuous, cryptographic proof of delivery, built on tooling the industry already trusts.

Supply-side integrity runs on provider collateral staking and automated slashing, reputation-weighted so honest providers post less and repeat offenders post more, making cheating structurally unprofitable rather than merely discouraged. LNQ's economic design ties token burn directly to network usage and governs emissions through adaptive, usage-linked unlocks rather than a fixed calendar, so supply responds to real demand.

Governance runs through veLNQ staking and tiered on-chain dispute resolution, moving decision-making from the founding team toward token holders over time.

LinqProtocol is P2P+: peer-to-peer money and peer-to-peer supply, secured by protocol-enforced protections neither party has to trust the other for.