RENDER Network ($RNDR)?
We are seeing a technological revolution reshaping how we produce, consume, and monetize media and information. A decentralized and open global rendering system is foundational for disruptive services and platforms to evolve from the next-generation world of immersive computing. In order to support the emerging media of tomorrow - ranging from cutting edge holographic worlds to AI media - it is crucial to be able to bridge the gap between the promise of these breakthroughs and the feasibility of widespread access to them. The Render Network is a blockchain-based global rendering platform where GPU work is utilized to trace digital photons and help create next generation 3D content. The Render Network processes millions of frames a year and has been used to create works ranging from blockbuster TV shows and films to large-scale stadium graphics, and finally, some of the most iconic 3D Non Fungible Token (NFT) collections. With the rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Render Network is powering new forms of creativity, enabling artists to push the boundaries of immersive and interactive media. First detailed in a 2010 patent for “A token based billing model for server side rendering,” the Render Network has evolved into an ecosystem for a growing range of decentralized 3D rendering and GPU computing applications.
Problem and Solution
Computational infrastructure is a major bottleneck in producing next generation media, which requires exponentially more computing power than what is available in the centralized GPU cloud. There is a competition for resources within the centralized GPU cloud - from GPU rendering and cloud streaming to AI training - leading to availability constraints and prohibitively expensive pricing for many artists. Augmented and mixed reality content, which requires orders of magnitude more rendering power than today’s HD or 4K imaging, are only exacerbating these computing shortages. As a result, artists are often burdened with costly or time consuming rendering processes when trying to create immersive imagery, limiting the potential for widespread access to next generation media production. New AI technologies are all competing for the same GPUs and unable to scale. Meanwhile most artist’s GPUs remain idle when they are not rendering their own work, or are out of use after upgrading to new GPU models, reducing the productivity potential of existing local GPU infrastructure. Further, excess GPU supply from proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining has led to an arms race where increasing compute resources are dedicated to mining fixed (or regressive) block rewards. The result: GPU’s for proof-of-work blockchain mining have diminishing productivity per watt, leading many GPU models to become unsustainable - with energy consumption costs exceeding marginal revenue. With the rise of more computationally efficient Proof of Stake blockchain protocols, there is an opportunity to more productively use latent GPU compute resources.
The Render Network harnesses these unused GPU cycles by connecting creators in need of computation power for rendering their scenes or compute needs with providers with available GPU power.
Value Proposition
The Render Network makes the process of rendering and streaming intricate virtual works easier for all users. It allows complex GPU-based render jobs to be distributed and processed on a peer-to-peer network, making the transactional process of rendering and streaming 3D environments, models, and objects much simpler for end users. Node operators with idle compute power can contribute their unused GPUs to a global network and earn RENDER for processing artists rendering needs, creating a more efficient use of GPU infrastructure. Furthermore, the Render Network platform can be used for applications like crowdsourcing 3D projects to digital rights management, creating a vibrant new marketplace to fund digital ideas, assets and applications that anyone, from single developers or artists to large studios, can access and leverage.
Use Cases and Applications
The Render Network can be used by artists, engineers, designers, and developers for a wide range of GPU workloads and applications, enabling new forms of creative, scientific, and industrial production that would be cost prohibitive on local infrastructure or centralized services.
Visual Effects and Motion Graphics
With the Render Network, independent artists and studios can produce large-scale 3D visual effects which would otherwise require prohibitively costly upfront capital expenditure in on-premise render farm infrastructure or pre-reserved GPU cloud instances. Artists using the Render Network can also leverage nearly unlimited on-demand GPU resources to render scenes at higher resolutions or multiple output formats, enabling more latitude in post-production process for virtual camera movements, tracking shots, pans, and other effects.
Virtual Assets and Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Using the Render Network, 3D artists can create non-fungible tokens and virtual assets with deep levels of provenance. Artists can also create and tokenize next generation virtual assets, like interactive ORBX files, enabling the monetization of portable 3D virtual assets.
Virtual Production
Directors and Cinematographers can combine live action with large-scale rendered 3D environments to transform the filmmaking process, enabling them to test unlimited takes and push the boundary of virtually created cinematic worlds.
Additional Rendering Applications
Projection Mapping
Rendering large scale 16K+ resolution 3D graphics for concert projections and venue based immersive content like stadiums or historic landmarks.
Product Design
With the Render Network’s massively parallel decentralized rendering, artists can rapidly prototype at scale, testing large amounts of texture and color patterns through parallelized GPU rendering, dramatically accelerating the 3D design process.
Architecture
Through scalable decentralized rendering, architects can create immersive 3D visualizations and virtual reality renders of architectural designs, enabling clients and designers to virtually experience architectural renders and concepts with full lifelike immersion - transforming the architectural visualization process.
Simulation
Researchers can render complex physically based rendering tasks for Physics, mathematical visualizations, time-elapsed nature simulations, neuroscience simulations, and other scientific applications using the Render Network.
Visualization
Using the Render Network, engineers can visualize complex and hyperrealistic content for virtual training and complex industrial visualizations.
Emerging Applications
Augmented Reality and Gaming
The Render Network’s GPU pre-rendering and real-time streaming enables artists to share real time immersive or interactive experiences for cloud streamed immersive content and augmented reality (AR). Artists stream live real time interactive 3D experiences with virtual streams using Render Network technology, or deploy hybrid pre-rendered and real time graphics to produce cutting edge cinematic gaming and AR.
The Render Network Foundation
The Render Network Foundation is a not-for-profit dedicated to maintaining the core Render Network protocol and growing its community. The Foundation facilitates the governance process through the Render Network proposal (RNP) system. It also is responsible for helping to set the strategic priorities of the network and issuing grants to support them.
Render Network Protocol
The Render Network will be ever changing based on community needs and input through the process of Render Network Protocol (RNP). The RNP-000 was implemented to define how these changes take place. RNPs are the process by which the community can affect change on the Render Network. Outlined below are all of the steps through which a community member can go from idea to implementation onto the Render Network.
1. Initial Proposal
2. Draft Submission
3. Initial Proposal Vote
4. Render Network Team Review
5. RNP Vote
6. Implementation
All RNPs status will be listed on the Render Network Github.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rendernetwork
Discord: https://discord.gg/rendernetwork
Telegram: https://t.me/s/rendernetwork
Medium: https://rendernetwork.medium.com/
Github: https://github.com/rendernetwork
Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth
Foundation: renderfoundation.com
Website: https://render.x.io
Abstract
The Render Network is powering the rise of an open and decentralized ecosystem of connected 3D digital assets - a technological revolution that is redefining how we create, interact with, and monetize digital content. As our lives become more digital, from the surge in mobile media to developers crafting new augmented and virtual realities, our engagement with computer-generated worlds is becoming increasingly immersive. With artists and media companies embracing novel methods of content creation, the complexity faced by content creators and editors is escalating. Large-scale computation tasks and the demand for real-time virtual experiences necessitate not just additional resources, but also innovative ways to exchange digital content. The Render Network is built to provide a platform for a wide array of computation tasks - from basic rendering to machine learning training to complex calculations - which are facilitated swiftly and efficiently in a blockchain-based peer-to-peer network, free from error or delay, while ensuring secure property rights.
In order to realize the promise of next-generation immersive computing, the tools for digital creativity and innovation need to be democratized.
This is the mission of the Render Network.
