Reference

Glossary

The words used across these docs.

Terms

Worker	A GPU connected to the network that serves jobs: a browser tab or a node.
Node	A native worker running models through Ollama.
Orchestrator	The coordinator that matches jobs to workers, streams tokens and keeps the ledger.
Job	One completion request served by one worker.
Credit	The unit users pay in. 1 credit = $0.001, bought with ETH.
Hidden check	A prompt with a known answer, sent to a worker like any job, to catch cheating.
Treasury	The wallet and ledger that collect the network margin, split daily.
Counted stake	The smaller of a registered wallet's last two daily $MASON balances.
nano-dollar	The ledger's unit: $1 = 1,000,000,000 n, so tiny per-token amounts stay exact.
WebGPU	The browser API that lets a web page run code on the GPU.