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Host your community** By providing compute, storage, and network resources to the ThreeFold Grid, you enable any individual, organization, community, country, or network society to deploy their own sovereign cloud.
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GROUNDBREAKING, RELIABLE, & ROBUST TECHNOLOGY

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![Image](zero_icon.png#mx-auto) #### **Zero-OS Self-Healing Operating System**

We like things well done and built to last, that’s why we created our own self-healing operating system, Zero-OS.


![Image](enargy_icon.png#mx-auto) #### **Energy Efficient**

No one wants to pay for electricity needlessly. Our system uses upto 10x less energy for certain workloads compared to traditional systems.


![Image](data.png#mx-auto) #### **Data Sovereignty**

You have now complete control over your data placement. Your data is yours, forever.

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![Image](quantum.png#mx-auto) #### **Quantum Safe File System**

We’re aware of the war for your data. That’s why we made QSFS, so you know your data is safe and future-proof.


![Image](sovereign.png#mx-auto) #### **Truly Sovereign and Collaborative**

It’s simple: everyone can now own their own part of the internet. From the home setup to the datacenter farm.


![Image](mycelium.png#mx-auto) #### **Mycelium Network**

Cost-efficient, locality aware and peer-to-peer, Mycelium is the network for planetary scale.

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{% row( style="center mtop narrow") %} #### HOW TO PARTICATE ## **Host & Earn** Become a host on the Threefold INCA Grid and get rewarded. Sign up for the waiting list. {% end %}
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### **SILVER**

Optimal choice for end user utilization



- 16 GB of Memory - 1,000 GB of SSD - 4 Logical CPU Cores - Up to 1,500 INCA/month for utilization. - For first 5,000 nodes, 250 INCA/month additional for first 24 months - Farmers are rewarded by 80% of the fees as paid by the Cloud Users
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### **PLATINUM**

Optimal choice for generic purpose cloud



- 64 GB of Memory - 2,000 GB of SSD + 10,000 GB of HDD - 16 Logical CPU Cores - Up to 6,000 INCA/month for utilization. - For first 1,000 nodes, 1,000 INCA/month additional for first 24 months - Farmers are rewarded by 80% of the fees as paid by the Cloud Users
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### **AI**

Optimal choice for AI workloads



- 64 GB of Memory - 4,000 GB of SSD + 10,000 GB of HDD - RTX 4900 GPU - Up to 12,000 INCA/month for utilization. - For first 1,000 nodes, 2,000 INCA/month additional for first 24 months - Farmers are rewarded by 80% of the fees as paid by the Cloud Users
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