May was an extraordinary month for Aethir, with major product launches and updates. We announced the pre-deposits for our EigenLayer ATH vault and our Checker Node Buyback program, bringing exciting benefits exclusively for our amazing Aethir community. Furthermore, we’re celebrating our upcoming TGE anniversary with tripled ATH staking rewards. At the same time, we continued to onboard AI and gaming innovators into the Aethir ecosystem while covering key industry topics and narratives showcasing our decentralized GPU cloud solutions.
Let’s check out Aethir’s May 2025 recap to explore all of our milestones and accomplishments on the road to universal cloud computing.
Aethir’s May GPU Dashboard Updates
Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud is constantly growing, onboarding new clients and compute providers to support the evolution of AI and cloud gaming. Check our GPU dashboard figures for May.
- Annual Recurring Revenue: $141MN+
- Total GPU Containers: 430k+
- Total Compute Hours Delivered: 810+ million
- Total ATH Rewards Distributed: 5+ billion
- Total On-Chain Transactions: 1.25+ million
Aethir’s EigenLayer ATH Vault Pre-Deposits
We launched pre-deposits for the EigenLayer ATH Vault, allowing users to stake ATH and mint eATH to maximize their rewards. By pre-depositing ATH in our EigenLayer ATH Vault, users will receive eATH (EigenATH), a liquid staking token with significant potential. This new liquid staking token will enable users to earn ATH as staking rewards. Integrated with EigenLayer’s AVS, our new staking pool enables Aethir to onboard compute. New compute providers, Cloud Hosts, can borrow ATH to onboard to Aethir’s compute infrastructure while contributing to the broader EigenLayer restaking ecosystem. Our stakers will participate in providing much-needed computing power for our vast network of 120+ enterprise clients and partners across the AI, Web3, and gaming sectors. Each user who pre-deposits their ATH in the EigenLayer ATH Vault will join Aethir’s journey to support the most innovative AI and gaming enterprises with premium, decentralized, scalable, and cost-effective cloud computing.
Redemption of eATH becomes available on 13th June 2026. Once redemption is initiated, tokens will vest for 30 days before release.
Stake your ATH and mint eATH here: user.aethir.com/stake/eigenlayer
Aethir’s Checker Node Buyback Program
Aethir recently announced the Checker Node Buyback program, which allows node holders to sell their NFT licenses back to Aethir and earn exciting benefits. The buyback program is part of Aethir’s broader strategy to strengthen the Aethir ecosystem by enabling users to support onboarding new compute cohorts into Aethir’s DePIN stack. Users can sell their Checker Nodes to Aethir Foundation in exchange for eATH, which is used to support Aethir’s decentralized cloud computing infrastructure. When Checker Node holders sell their nodes back to Aethir, they directly support our network's fresh cohorts of GPU compute by holding eATH. A key characteristic of eATH is that during its one-year lockup period, it continues to earn ATH rewards, which is the main benefit for eATH holders.
For more details regarding the Checker Node Buyback program, check our detailed blog, which explores the program’s key features and benefits.
The Checker Node Buyback program went live on the 27th of May on this official link: checkerbb.aethir.com
Celebrating Our First TGE Anniversary with Tripled Staking Rewards
Aethir’s Token Generation Event (TGE) anniversary is approaching fast on June 12. In celebration of this exciting upcoming milestone and to mark our EigenLayer deployment, we’re rolling out a series of updates, starting with 10 weeks of tripled rewards in both AI and Gaming pools for ATH stakers. During these 10 weeks, weekly rewards will jump to 3,000,000 ATH per week per pool, allowing you to boost your earnings significantly. Whether you’re a long-time staker or just getting started, this is the perfect opportunity to maximize your returns while contributing to Aethir’s decentralized cloud infrastructure.
Stake your ATH in either pool during this window and receive tripled staking rewards.
Growing the Aethir Ecosystem with Premium Partnerships
Aethir’s May 2025 saw exciting ecosystem expansions, confirming the quality of our decentralized cloud in action. We’ve published two detailed case studies conducted by Inferium and Raiinmaker, our esteemed AI partners, showcasing how they used Aethir’s GPU cloud to supercharge their AI workloads. Furthermore, SuperScale conducted another case study on Aethir’s cloud gaming infrastructure, showing how Aethir’s Instant Play supercharges user acquisition regardless of game genre. The case study was done on Doctor Who: Worlds Apart.
Aethir and Polyhedra joined forces to support high-impact AI builders and spearhead the future of AI with an exclusive grant program for AI visionaries.
We’ve established a data partnership with Token Terminal, the leading full-stack on-chain data platform focused on standardizing financial and alternative data for the most widely used blockchains and decentralized applications.
Aethir joined iExec’s Grants Pitch Day in Dubai as part of the jury to help select the most promising AI projects for exciting ecosystem grants. To showcase the innovative potential of AI creativity, our CSO and co-founder, Mark Rydon’s AI representation joined AI Shark Tank as one of the jury members in this never-before-seen AI pitching project.
As passionate supporters of AI agentic innovation, we’ve established a compute partnership with JuliaOS to support their next-gen AI-swarm framework with streamlined GPU computing. Aethir welcomed SynchroVerse, a patented SDK for creating AI-powered 3D characters and virtual humans into our decentralized cloud ecosystem.
CROSS’ AI blockchain infrastructure for gaming has decided to choose Aethir’s decentralized cloud gaming infrastructure to support its builders with scalable, reliable, and cost-effective computing resources.
Additionally, we’ve launched an AI for Bharat tour in India as part of the Aethir Forge program, set on spreading Aethir’s decentralized cloud vision in the Indian Web3 and AI communities.
Showcasing Aethir’s AI and Gaming Expertise
As a global decentralized cloud computing industry leader, Aethir has the responsibility to inform and educate the global Web3, AI, and gaming community regarding the key characteristics and benefits of our distributed GPU cloud.
We explored how Aethir is powering the new gaming economy with Instant Play streaming technology that allows players to try before they buy or download a game, considerably improving user acquisition and revenue. We dived into Aethir’s user acquisition benefits even further, showcasing several of our high-profile partners leveraging Instant Play technology across different gaming projects and platforms, confirming the versatility of our DePIN stack.
On the AI front, we’ve analyzed the differences between centralized and decentralized clouds to clearly show the advantages of Aethir’s GPU cloud over traditional, big-tech clouds. Lower costs, global availability, and flexibility make decentralized cloud infrastructure the future of high-performance computing. Furthermore, we’ve assessed the latest innovations in the field of AI robotics, focusing on ethically responsible AI implementation. Finally, we’ve covered the recently introduced GENIUS Act in the U.S. and its key implications for the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 industries.
Although we had significant milestones and launches in May, there’s much more to come soon. Aethir is dedicated to constantly innovating and improving its services to stay on top of the decentralized cloud computing sector and offer premium GPU compute to AI and gaming enterprises worldwide.
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