Claim your founder spot
HoloNear trains and serves frontier models across a permissionless swarm of everyday machines. Point a node at the public pool and your compute joins a live run — earning Genesis Points and a permanent Founder # on the Genesis leaderboard.
Points earned now carry the 2× founding multiplier — only during Genesis. Your founding ordinal is yours for good; you can never earn it again.
What you need
- Apple Silicon (M-series) — the fastest path; the node runs fused Metal kernels via MLX.
- Any CPU — works everywhere for smaller stages; no GPU required to join.
- NVIDIA (CUDA) — single-GPU node backend, verified against CPU on real NVIDIA silicon (hardware attestation pending); multi-GPU (NCCL) and Blackwell are still in bring-up.
- Plus a NEAR account — the identity your Genesis Points and Founder # accrue to — and a reachable network connection; the node reconnects on its own across drops.
Join the public pool in three steps
01Install the HoloNear CLI
curl -fsSL https://holonear-attestation-production.up.railway.app/install.sh | sh
One line — downloads the CLI for your Mac (Apple Silicon) and installs it to ~/.holonear/bin. Heads-up: the interim installer is served from a temporary host and isn't code-signed yet — its checksum only guards against a corrupted download, not a tampered host — so on a security-sensitive machine download and review the script before running it rather than piping it straight to a shell. Prefer an app? Download the desktop app for macOS or Windows — it bundles the CLI (unsigned; bypass Gatekeeper/SmartScreen on first run).
02Point at the public pool
holonear use global
Sets your active coordinator to the public pool (wss://pool.holonear.dev).
03Start contributing
holonear node up --payout your-account.near
Brings up a background provider node. --payout is the NEAR account that accrues your Genesis Points and founding status, so every GPU you run rolls up under one founder identity. The node auto-detects its chip and attests as stub (self-signed) by default; check it any time with holonear node status and stop it with holonear node down.