Last week I ran a test on my own machine using OpenGradient’s nodes. I ended up staring at the traffic monitoring logs for half an hour and just laughed out loud—because the “decentralized independent compute power” they brag about so grandly in the brochures had all the traffic flowing straight into AWS data centers.
The project team even says it plainly: they use AWS Nitro Enclaves, and the certification documents are signed by AWS as the certificate authority. Open GitHub—only 330 commits in total, and 29 active contributors. The code is definitely written diligently, but that “decentralization” framework is propped up inside an Amazon data center. So how is this “breaking the oligopoly”? #OPG
Retail investors buy GPUs and pay electricity bills, pouring real money into it, thinking they’re supporting a decentralized future. But the real power that determines the direction of the network is held by a few early whales. Proposal rights and consensus modification permissions are neatly tucked behind several multisig wallets. What they call “community self-governance,” translated, is “big holders vote, small holders follow.” @OpenGradient
Then look at token allocation—total supply is 1 billion tokens. The ecosystem fund is 40%, with 10% unlocked at TGE; the remaining 60% is released gradually over 60 months. The foundation gets 15%, core contributors get 15%, and investors get 10%. Most of it is locked under contracts ranging from 12 to 60 months. What retail buyers take on the secondary market is the circulating supply of 190 million tokens. But those more than 800 million tokens that haven’t come out yet will eventually flow into the market. Even the staking rewards’ 10% is spread over 96 months—eight years. Every OPG token you earn from staking corresponds to one additional token that enters circulation in the market. This isn’t “passive income”; it’s “your share of newly minted supply.” The project team uses your locked-up time to absorb the sell-pressure from the unlocks. The longer you lock, the more comfortably the whales can distribute their holdings.
Is it fair? It’s fair. The rules are written in black and white in the tokenomics—no one is lying to you. But no one tells you this either: the GPUs and electricity bills from retail are effectively front-funding the protocol’s early stage. The real power to decide proposals has nothing to do with retail investors. $OPG
zkML has something to say about transparency, and the code is also well written. But no matter how beautiful the code is, it can’t change the fact that the game rules are controlled by a small number of people. AI on-chain is a must-have, so I’ll keep my machine running as an observatory specimen. But you want me to put real money into a token structure like this? Not a chance.
The project team even says it plainly: they use AWS Nitro Enclaves, and the certification documents are signed by AWS as the certificate authority. Open GitHub—only 330 commits in total, and 29 active contributors. The code is definitely written diligently, but that “decentralization” framework is propped up inside an Amazon data center. So how is this “breaking the oligopoly”? #OPG
Retail investors buy GPUs and pay electricity bills, pouring real money into it, thinking they’re supporting a decentralized future. But the real power that determines the direction of the network is held by a few early whales. Proposal rights and consensus modification permissions are neatly tucked behind several multisig wallets. What they call “community self-governance,” translated, is “big holders vote, small holders follow.” @OpenGradient
Then look at token allocation—total supply is 1 billion tokens. The ecosystem fund is 40%, with 10% unlocked at TGE; the remaining 60% is released gradually over 60 months. The foundation gets 15%, core contributors get 15%, and investors get 10%. Most of it is locked under contracts ranging from 12 to 60 months. What retail buyers take on the secondary market is the circulating supply of 190 million tokens. But those more than 800 million tokens that haven’t come out yet will eventually flow into the market. Even the staking rewards’ 10% is spread over 96 months—eight years. Every OPG token you earn from staking corresponds to one additional token that enters circulation in the market. This isn’t “passive income”; it’s “your share of newly minted supply.” The project team uses your locked-up time to absorb the sell-pressure from the unlocks. The longer you lock, the more comfortably the whales can distribute their holdings.
Is it fair? It’s fair. The rules are written in black and white in the tokenomics—no one is lying to you. But no one tells you this either: the GPUs and electricity bills from retail are effectively front-funding the protocol’s early stage. The real power to decide proposals has nothing to do with retail investors. $OPG
zkML has something to say about transparency, and the code is also well written. But no matter how beautiful the code is, it can’t change the fact that the game rules are controlled by a small number of people. AI on-chain is a must-have, so I’ll keep my machine running as an observatory specimen. But you want me to put real money into a token structure like this? Not a chance.