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Overview

For ThreerFold V4, we are introducing a marketplace where farmers can offer resources and where third parties can use the grid infrastructure.

Benefits

There are clear benefits to the marketplace we will implement:

• Utilization of FIAT currencies (CHF, USD, EUR, ...)
• Better utilization of hardware capacity.
• Farmers can define their own price, means market mechanism define price in relation to quality and supply
• Easier for users to find right priced service
• Easier to monitor and enforce SLA's
• Easier to track utilization and expansion
• Can and will be extended to other Internet and cloud services