Design Advantages

The CLOB + Scheduled Sweep design was chosen because it offers several advantages:

Simplified Adoption
It uses a familiar continuous order book that traders across financial markets (stocks, crypto, etc.) already understand. There is no need to teach everyone new auction formats before they can trade.
Clear Capacity Signal
Allowing resale between purchase and Sweep lets the market reveal how participants value time until consumption. Suppliers can adjust prices intraday based on real time capacity, and buyers can adjust based on their ability to use Units before Sweeps.
Use It or Lose It Instead of Subscription Fees
Instead of punishing holders with subscription fees or minimum commitments, this open market design with forced, time bound consumption drives aggressive pricing towards a definite predictable demand, thus making the market convenient and efficient for both buyers and sellers.

Buying inference today usually means:

Evaluating model benchmarks and suppliers on their service performance, followed by internal procurement
Accepting opaque rate limits and throttling.
Negotiating custom discounts and contracts.
Juggling multiple SDKs and pricing tables.

The Grid replaces that with:

Transparent Pricing
Everyone sees the same bids, asks, spreads, and depth for each Instrument in real time.
Active Capacity Instead of Idle Credits
The 4 hour consumption window converts purchased Units into near term usage. Suppliers can price idle capacity more tightly because they know it will resolve quickly.
Open Competition
Any conforming model can fulfill an Instrument. Better models can undercut worse ones while buyers keep a single integration.
Enforced Standards
Each call is measured against Instrument benchmarks. Failed or late delivery is not billed, and suppliers that drift are corrected or removed.

The result is a market that is clearer, cheaper, and fairer for both sides.

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