# 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.\
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The architecture of the Robotics/Drones Marketplace has four main layers that we outline in more detail in the following pages::

1. **On-device node** (lightweight blockchain + AI runtime).
2. **Marketplace layer** (smart contracts, scheduling, pricing).
3. **Verification & Proof layer** (ensuring robots actually perform useful work).
4. **Vault compounding layer** (converting earned rewards into yield).

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