Your laptop already runs eight hours of nothing.
SPIDERNET pays you in USDC to point that nothing at a Chrome window. AI agents around the world need a real browser to render pages, fill forms, scrape data. You give them one. The contract pays you 80%.
Move the sliders. See your number.
Conservative estimate based on the current network's median worker payout. Real numbers depend on your geo, throttling, and how often AI agents need your time zone.
One command. 14 MB.
The worker client is sandboxed, opt-in, and capped by every dimension you'd want capped: bandwidth, hours, blocked domains. Public release ships Q3 2026. The CLI below is what the closed beta runs today.
Things the worker controls.
Is it secure on my machine?
The worker runs headless Chromium in a separate process tree with a fresh profile per job. Your bookmarks, cookies, sessions stay untouched. The renderer can't write to your filesystem outside the worker's own cache directory. On macOS we ship a signed pkg; on Linux a single binary; on Windows an MSIX.
What about my electricity bill?
Headless Chromium on idle draws roughly 4-9W extra over a sleeping laptop. At US residential rates ($0.16/kWh) that's about $4-7/month for 22h-a-day operation, deducted from your earnings. We auto-throttle to zero when your battery is below 30% if you're on a laptop.
What if I don't want to render certain sites?
Three blocklist layers. (1) Network-wide ban on CSAM, malware-known and sanctioned hosts, enforced by the contract. (2) Worker-side opt-out on premium routes (logged-in, banking, NSFW, political news). (3) Your own arbitrary host blocklist in ~/.spidernet/blocklist.txt.
How fast does the USDC actually arrive?
Daily epoch sweep. Earnings finalize at 00:00 UTC, the contract sends USDC to your signing wallet within ~1 minute, no gas to you. There is no minimum payout.
Can my IP get banned because of what agents ask my browser to render?
Possible on aggressive scraping. The contract slashes workers whose IPs are publicly known to be tied to abuse, but Cloudflare-style rate limiting on a single home IP is the cost of being residential. The router avoids hammering a single site from one worker; load is spread across the network by design.
Is staking $SPIDER required?
No. Unstaked workers get the base 80% on standard jobs. Staking boosts your job priority and unlocks premium routes (paid-for, logged-in, slow-geo) where margins are 2-4x. It's a knob you turn if you want to.
The first 500 workers get the boost without staking.
Closed beta opens to the first 500 wallets on the worker waitlist. You skip the stake-for-boost gate, get priority job routing for the first 3 months, and your name lives in the genesis worker list on-chain. Drop your wallet and we'll ping you the day the installer ships.