Marketplace Overview
The PoC described later in this documentation demonstrates a product architecture for monetizing idle assets. It will start by testing out the architecture using regular compute, storage and bandwith idle resources before plugging in its Robotics & Drones Marketplace to allow more exotic asset categories to be transformed into yield bearing assets.
We are prioritizing these asset categories due to:
Industrial downtime costs: Robots and drones in logistics, factories, agriculture, and surveillance spend significant time idle. A warehouse AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) may run 16 hours/day and sit unused for 8 hours. A delivery drone may complete a handful of routes daily but remain parked most of the time. Globally, this idle time maps to trillions of dollars in underutilized capital assets.
Market scale: The global robotics market exceeded $40B in 2023, projected to hit $160B by 2030 (CAGR >20%). Drone market expected to surpass $55B by 2030 (MarketsandMarkets).
AI-native hardware: Modern drones/robots already run embedded AI models (vision, SLAM, obstacle avoidance). With Idle’s compiler + accelerator stack, these models can be optimized and validated on-device, then linked to blockchain reward systems.
Idle Network’s robotics and drones marketplace will allow owners of robots/drones to “lend out” idle time with security guarantees, automatic yield, and integration into DeFi vaults. The architecture of the Robotics/Drones Marketplace has four main layers that we outline in more detail in the following pages::
On-device node (lightweight blockchain + AI runtime).
Marketplace layer (smart contracts, scheduling, pricing).
Verification & Proof layer (ensuring robots actually perform useful work).
Vault compounding layer (converting earned rewards into yield).
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