December 23, 2025
Nosana 2025: From Testnets to Real-World Compute
In 2025, Nosana reached a point of maturity where experimentation gave way to production and decentralized compute shifted from an emerging idea into dependable infrastructure.
Systems that had once lived on testnets began running real workloads, and tools designed for demonstrations evolved into components builders could rely on in practice. By the end of the year, Nosana had firmly established itself as part of the real compute stack, supported not by promises or positioning, but by usage, reliability, and work being done on the network.
Partnerships & Events
In 2025, Nosana’s partnerships and events centered on practical deployments, integrations, and hands-on use of the network.
Folding@Home: Compute for Scientific Research
Nosana became one of the Top 20 monthly contributors worldwide to Folding@Home - one of the longest-running and most impactful distributed computing initiatives in existence.
Idle GPU capacity on the Nosana network is now used to accelerate protein simulations, cancer research, Alzheimer’s studies, and other biomedical workloads. This mattered not because it was symbolic, but because it was practical: real compute, running real science, outside centralized infrastructure.
It was a clear signal that decentralized GPU networks can contribute to serious, long-term research, not just short-lived demos.
ShipyardNL & Superteam NL: Builders First
Nosana partnered with ShipyardNL to support Superteam NL and the broader Solana developer ecosystem in the Netherlands. The collaboration focused on direct engagement with builders through hackathons, demo day jury participation, and hands-on support during deployments. For many developers in the region, this marked their first practical experience running inference workloads on decentralized GPUs.
AI Builders Workshops: From Concept to Deployment
Together with AI Builders, Nosana hosted and participated in workshops in Singapore centered on running production workloads. The sessions focused on deployment patterns, inference workflows, and day-to-day operational considerations, and served as a practical onboarding path for developers adopting permissionless compute for real use cases.
Exabits: Scaling the Supply Side
In July, Nosana integrated Exabits, a large-scale GPU infrastructure provider focused on ML and inference workloads.
This partnership materially increased network capacity and improved reliability for heavier, always-on workloads. It strengthened the supply side of the network and supported teams running more demanding production deployments.
In short: more GPUs, better uptime, fewer compromises.
Rivalz: Infrastructure for Agent Workloads
Rivalz is building an intelligence layer for autonomous agents. In 2025, their workloads were connected to Nosana’s GPU network.
The result: agents running inference on decentralized hardware rather than centralized cloud providers. This integration reduced costs, removed permission barriers, and aligned both ecosystems around open, composable infrastructure.
Piknik: Strengthening Network Resilience
Nosana also partnered with Piknik, a GPU infrastructure provider, to further diversify the network’s compute supply. More providers meant greater decentralization, improved resilience, and a healthier hardware layer overall.
Dutch Blockchain Week
During Dutch Blockchain Week, Nosana engaged directly with developers and ecosystem builders already operating at the intersection of Web3 and compute-intensive applications.
The focus wasn’t evangelism, it was demonstration. Showing that decentralized GPUs can meet real technical expectations in environments where performance actually matters.
SuperAI Singapore: Entering Asia’s Compute Market
SuperAI marked an important step in Nosana’s Asia strategy.
The team connected with founders and developers actively searching for alternatives to centralized compute, at a time when demand for GPU infrastructure across the region is accelerating. The conversations weren’t speculative — they were about costs, reliability, and scaling.
WeAreDevelopers World Congress: Compute for Builders
At Europe’s largest developer conference, Nosana reached students, indie hackers, and early-stage teams who were priced out of traditional cloud infrastructure.
For these builders, decentralized GPUs were a practical choice — a way to access compute and keep building without prohibitive costs.
AI DEV Amsterdam: Tooling Meets Infrastructure
AI DEV brought together teams focused on tooling, workflows, and production pipelines.
Here, Nosana demonstrated how decentralized compute fits into real developer environments, including hybrid architectures and scalable inference without centralized lock-in.
BUIDL Day at Token2049 Singapore
Alongside AI Builders, Nosana co-hosted a BUIDL Day during Token2049.
Founders deployed models live, explored the dashboard, and tested inference on decentralized GPUs. For many, it was the first time decentralized compute felt genuinely usable!
Web3 & AI Hackathon, Leuven
Nosana supported builders with compute credits, mentoring, and hands-on deployment guidance.
Many participants deployed inference for the first time, taking models from experimentation to live execution.
Breakpoint Abu Dhabi: Infrastructure in the Spotlight
At Solana Breakpoint Abu Dhabi, Nosana joined developers, partners, and founders from across the ecosystem.
The conversation had shifted from “what is Nosana?” to how far the network has come - from mainnet stability to real usage, growing demand for decentralized compute, and the launch of the Nosana Grants Program to support the next wave of builders.
Product, Network & Ecosystem
Shipping infrastructure that holds up under use
Mainnet Launch (January 14, 2025)
On January 14, Nosana launched mainnet.
This marked the end of experimental phases and the beginning of a live, production-ready network. Developers could deploy workloads at scale. GPU hosts began earning on-chain rewards tied to real service delivery.
Mainnet wasn’t a finish line - it was the starting point.
Nosana Grants Program: Funding What Actually Moves the Network
The Nosana Grants Program became one of the most important launches of 2025.
Instead of funding hype, the program supports work that directly improves the ecosystem: deployment tooling, documentation, integrations, templates, and infrastructure improvements. It reflects a shift toward shared ownership of ecosystem development.
Learn more at grants.nosana.com.
Inferia: Grants in Action
Inferia was among the first teams supported through the program.
They are building tools that simplify model deployment and improve developer workflows on Nosana. Their work demonstrates what the Grants Program is designed for: accelerating practical contributions that make the network easier to use.
Builder’s Challenges: Learning by Shipping
The Builder’s Challenge launched as a recurring initiative to help developers create real deployments, reusable templates, and practical examples. Over the year, we ran two editions, each designed to move builders from concept to shipped projects. The first helped participants stand up basic AI agent workloads, and the second pushed them to build and deploy more advanced intelligent agents on Nosana’s decentralized GPU network. Across both challenges, builders from around the world tackled real use cases and shipped live workloads that showed what’s possible on decentralized compute.
Asia Expansion: Decentralization in Practice
Nosana onboarded new node operators in Japan and expanded GPU supply across Asia as part of its broader ecosystem growth.
This increased network capacity, improved regional latency, and strengthened global reliability — supporting builders across markets as the network scales worldwide.
New Deployment Manager: Less Friction, More Scale
A new Deployment Manager streamlined orchestration and automation across the network.
Developers gained a cloud-like deployment experience while retaining the benefits of decentralized infrastructure — a critical step toward broader adoption.
NNP-001 — Nosana Network Proposal: Aligning Incentives With Network Usage
NNP-001 introduced a Nosana Network Proposal to evolve the network’s tokenomics by tying emissions directly to real usage.
Rewards are distributed based on service quality, reliability, and demonstrated demand, ensuring incentives reflect meaningful contribution to the network.
This proposal strengthens long-term sustainability and reinforces a core principle of Nosana: rewards flow to useful, reliable compute that powers real workloads.
NOSvember: Community That Builds
NOSvember returned as a month-long celebration for the Nosana community, featuring a variety of challenges, games, and creative quests designed to bring builders, creators, and newcomers together. Events ranged from drawing games and quizzes to thread challenges, a meme contest, and a final poker tournament, all with rewards and recognitions that spotlighted standout contributions. The emphasis was on shared participation and community energy, celebrating what happens when people show up, create, and connect across the ecosystem.
Sogni: 25M+ Images, One Network
Sogni surpassed 25 million images generated on Nosana GPUs.
This remains one of the clearest proofs that decentralized GPUs can handle high-volume, production-grade creative workloads - consistently, reliably, and at scale.
What Changed in 2025
2025 was the year Nosana moved firmly into production.
Live workloads ran across the network, builders shipped real applications, and incentives tracked real demand. The result was infrastructure designed for sustained, real-world use.
2026 is about scale and refinement.
Refining the product to make deployments easier, smoother, and more intuitive. Reducing friction until decentralized GPUs feel obvious, not experimental. Rolling into larger markets where demand for reliable, affordable compute already exists. Expanding capacity across regions while deepening integrations into tooling, agent frameworks, and real-world applications.
The foundation is live.
What comes next is expansion, with usability and reach at the center.
