{"rid":"compute/gensyn","card":{"rid":"compute/gensyn","eid":"gensyn","topic":"compute","slug":"gensyn","provider":"Gensyn","url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","domain":"gensyn.ai","category":"GPU cloud","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No consumer-facing capacity. Quoted: 'RL Swarm is a peer-to-peer reinforcement-learning swarm you can run on a laptop or a GPU server', with system requireme...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"gensyn","provider":"Gensyn","url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"No consumer-facing capacity. Quoted: 'RL Swarm is a peer-to-peer reinforcement-learning swarm you can run on a laptop or a GPU server', with system requirements 'A 64-bit arm64 or x86 CPU with at least 32 GB RAM, or an officially supported NVIDIA GPU (3090, 4090, 5090, A100, H100)'. The dashboard states: 'There are no official swarms running right now.'","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"None. Gensyn is a market for selling compute, not buying it, and it has no live swarm. A chain that includes Gensyn would need the client to own the GPU.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"The direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing the client does not have. Even as a supplier lane it fails first on the 32 GB RAM or supported-GPU floor, then on 'no official swarms running right now'.","source":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started"}],"limits_note":"The direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing the client does not have. Even as a supplier lane it fails first on the 32 GB RAM or supported-GPU floor, then on 'no official swarms running right now'.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing the client does not have. Even as a supplier lane it fails first on the 32 GB RAM or supported-GPU floor, then on 'no official swarms running right now'.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"a Hugging Face write token: the getting-started page is quoted as requiring 'a Hugging Face write token', which in turn implies a Hugging Face account that issues it. No card, hold, phone or ID is stated, and the email kind rests on that Hugging Face account rather than on a quoted signup form. Debit and prepaid do not arise because no payment method is mentioned. The 32 GB RAM or listed NVIDIA GPU requirement is a capacity gate, not an identity one.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: requires a 64-bit arm64/x86 CPU with at least 32 GB RAM or a supported NVIDIA GPU (3090, 4090, 5090, A100, H100); a Hugging Face write token is required"},{"url":"https://dashboard.gensyn.ai/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'There are no official swarms running right now. Please check back later'; the network reports 427,530 on-chain users"},{"url":"https://docs.gensyn.ai/testnet","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"public testnet launched March 2025; the network tracks participation and makes payments, it does not rent capacity to consumers"},{"url":"https://depinrun.com/guides/gensyn-node-operator-guide","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"third-party operator guide states 'No compute-provider earnings have been published for Gensyn mainnet' and that testnet rewards were 'relative and pool-based'"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"REFUTATION OF A COMMON MISREADING. Gensyn appears in free-GPU roundups because RL Swarm is free to join, but joining means contributing hardware, not receiving capacity. Three independent facts kill it for a user: it needs 32 GB RAM or a listed NVIDIA card, its dashboard says no official swarms are running, and its reward unit is a token allocation out of a 2 percent testnet pool with no published per-node formula. A third-party guide also records that renting a GPU to run a Gensyn node costs USD 65 to USD 300 per month, which is negative margin for a client with no budget.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"decentralized-training-network","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":32,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":32,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":32,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}