It’s official. RNP-023 has passed the community vote, and Salad will now become an exclusive subnet on the Render Network.

A few weeks ago we shared our proposal to fully integrate with Render, migrating our payments and rewards infrastructure to on-chain transactions using RENDER and plugging directly into the burn-mint equilibrium model. We asked the Render community to trust us with that opportunity. They did, and now we get to work.

A Moment Eight Years in the Making

Salad was founded to unlock millions of idle consumer GPUs and put them to productive use. For eight years, we’ve been building the infrastructure, the marketplace, and the community to make that vision real. Today we operate the largest network of consumer GPUs in the world: 60,000 daily active machines across 180+ countries, powering workloads for AI startups, biotech companies, and enterprises alike.

But we’ve always known that the next stage of growth would require more than incremental improvements to how we operate. It would require a fundamental upgrade to the economic rails underneath the entire platform. The Render Network gives us exactly that.

We chose not to launch our own token. We chose Render because their team, their infrastructure, and their community represent the strongest foundation we could build on.

What This Means for Chefs

Chefs will be able to receive rewards in RENDER, with the option to withdraw to a self-custody Solana wallet or continue redeeming through our existing storefront. Your balance, your choice.

The core experience stays the same. You run Salad, you earn. What changes is the flexibility and transparency of how those earnings work, and the economic engine behind them.

The timing here matters. Open-source AI models are increasingly finding their home on consumer-grade hardware. Agentic AI workloads are surging, generating orders of magnitude more compute demand per interaction than traditional API calls. The machines our Chefs operate are exactly the infrastructure the industry needs, and with Render’s economic model backing us, the growth trajectory for Chef rewards has never looked stronger.

What This Means for Customers

Salad customers will be able to fund their accounts directly with RENDER alongside existing fiat options. As we capture lower cost-of-goods through on-chain payments, we expect to introduce pricing incentives that reward RENDER transactions, making our already low-cost GPU infrastructure even more accessible.

Our SaladCloud products will continue to operate exactly as they do today. Same reliability, same scale. And with our upcoming Agentic LLM API, we’re expanding what’s possible on the network at exactly the right moment.

Where We Go From Here

Work begins immediately. The integration is structured around three milestones:

Milestone 1 enables Chefs to receive rewards in RENDER through our existing storefront. This is what we’re building first.

Milestone 2 introduces the ability for customers to deposit RENDER as payment for compute and networking services.

Milestone 3 is the full migration: all transactions running through RENDER, fully integrated with the BME model.

You can see more details in our proposal docs. We’ll keep you updated as we progress.

Our Thanks

To the Render community: you voted to let us in. We don’t take that lightly, and we intend to earn that trust through execution, transparency, and results. The burns-exceed-mints design of this integration was deliberate. We want Salad’s growth to be good for the entire Render ecosystem, not just for us.

To our Chefs: you’ve been the backbone of this network since day one. This integration is how we make sure the next chapter rewards you even more than the last.

To our customers: nothing about the experience you rely on is going away. We’re building on top of what works, and opening up new possibilities alongside it.

To follow along, join our Discord community or follow us on X to track development updates and milestone progress as we build this out. We’ll be posting regularly as each phase comes online.

This is the growth stage we’ve been building toward. Let’s go.

Bob Miles Founder & CEO, Salad.com