$PHA
Both use “put to work for the network” as a selling point, and both are listed in Binance spot trading—these four names’ latest readings are split into two segments: Phala: 67.2% for the round, 74.5% turnover, market cap about $42 million; The Graph: 13.0%, 7.8%, about $224 million; Fetch: 12.3%, 19.4%, about $427 million; Livepeer: 7.6%, 17.5%, about $52 million. Among the four, only Phala’s chain fees do not go through its own token, and the one with the highest turnover is precisely it.
I went through how this cloud charges. Per its documentation, the on-chain fee is collected in the native asset of the chain it’s “hosted” on; the token isn’t what’s paid at this fee endpoint. The token’s utility is written into the collateral for staking, governance, and compute-node staking—once you lock it in, it becomes a receipt, and then you use it to vote and handle compute work. In other words, what gets pulled away first when the quantity comes in is the staking side; the token is not consumed as fuel.
The numbers are indeed long. On the website counter, on September 15 the platform processed 55.18 billion model-calling units in a single day, and a single model accounts for nearly half. On the pricing side, on September 8 it closed around $0.026; today it’s quoted at $0.06. Over the past 24 hours, spot trading was about $32 million—equivalent to more than 70% of its own market cap.
The call volume is recorded on that cloud provider’s own counter and isn’t directly tied to the buying and selling of the token. The actual money received on-chain is spread out thinly day by day. The platform coin BNB converts profits into reduced supply quarterly; this cloud doesn’t channel operating revenue into a token-related on/off switch. Also, this “confidential computing” bowl contains a much larger volume of compute-rental operators. Whether corporate customers are willing to pay extra for an extra layer of hardware encryption still hasn’t been broadly realized.
This round of readings isn’t buying the right to collect payments—it’s buying usage itself. If the daily call readings keep rising, while the money received on-chain still doesn’t go through this token, then this reading approach changes: let the call readings level off at a high point, and the token’s utility remains only in staking and collateral—then it stays as it is. For usage to be converted into holdings, what’s missing in the middle is someone doing that conversion for you. What Binance can see is the price quote; the leftover balances have their own destination under the rules for earning.
This article is a record of viewpoints and does not constitute investment advice.$ZETA
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