BlockBeats News, May 12, the AI laboratory Dolphin tweeted that the Dolphin Network adopts a Peer-to-Pool architecture to reuse idle GPUs. Each model runs in a GPU pool, with nodes randomly assigned tasks, and no direct buy-sell binding between parties. Nodes only receive POD token rewards from the protocol treasury based on the number of tokens processed for inference. Users purchase credits directly from the protocol, supporting payments in POD, ETH, BTC, USDC, XMR, and ZEC. All protocol revenue will be used to market buyback POD, directly offsetting inflation. Taking Qwen 3.6 35B as an example, Dolphin charges users $0.7 per million tokens (lower than OpenRouter's $1), pays nodes $0.5, and generates $0.2 in net buyback.

POD holders can stake in the xPOD Treasury to receive automatic compounding dividends, daily Inference Limit, and ecosystem subscription benefits. Node operators must stake forfeitable POD bonds (equivalent to 4 weeks of income), and cheating will result in a corresponding deduction. The reward multiplier mechanism can reach up to 2x.