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The first question I had was "what are the economics?" From the FAQ:Will Petals incentives be based on crypto, blockchain, etc.?  No, we are working on a centralized incentive system similar to the AI Horde kudos, even though Petals is a fully decentralized system in all other aspects. We do not plan to provide a service to exchange these points for money, so you should see these incentives as "game" points designed to be spent inside our system.

  Petals is an ML-focused project designed for ML researchers and engineers, it does not have anything to do with finance. We decided to make the incentive system centralized because it is much easier to develop and maintain, so we can focus on developing features useful for ML researchers.

https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/FAQ:-Freq...