Project balance
The dollar balance a project can use for maintainer-created compute keys and provider-reported token spend.
A project balance is the dollar amount of donated compute available to one opub project. Donations add to the balance, and provider-reported spend events reduce it.
In opub, the project balance keeps funding understandable for donors and maintainers. Donors can see whether a project has compute available, and maintainers can create compute keys with dollar limits from that shared pool.
Dollars are the accounting unit for the balance. Tokens are the usage unit providers report after maintainers use model tools, and that usage becomes spend events in the project ledger.
Also called
Related terms
All termsDonated compute
Project funding that becomes a dollar balance maintainers can spend on model tokens.
donations balance 2 aliasesCompute key
A maintainer-created key with a dollar limit reserved from a project's donated compute balance.
maintainers compute keys 2 aliasesSpend event
An append-only ledger entry for provider-reported model usage that changes a project's donated compute balance.
spend balance