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  • I don't get it. How it's different from Vast.ai, Salad Cloud, and RunPod?
    by gagan2020
  • As an individual, will I have access to pricing or is that limited to institutions as well?

    For that matter, how transparent is this marketplace? Do I need to put in an RFQ for a specific SKU to get a point-in-time price or do I see the whole marketplace?

    You mention $300 million dollars in RFQs, but how much of that resulted in chips and cash trading hands? What stops someone from offering the seller a better price to continue the transaction outside of Stoa?

    by iFred
  • Will there be support for lower-end GPUs like RTX 4090s or RTX 6000 Pros in the future?
    by Fe2O3
  • Is pricing spot-only or do you support forward commitments? GPU supply deals seem to want term structure - a lab locking capacity for 6 months cares about a very different price than burst spot. Curious how you handle default risk on the longer terms.
    by jawdatz
  • But what about the GPUs that are considered defective for corporate and enterprise use, but perfect for personal use...say like A100s that maybe having ECC issues but I can live with that
    by stevefan1999
  • I’m very curious about how you’re fending off fraud— just wondering about how a lot of dark web transactions supposedly have escrow, but people waive it and then get burned. Do you have anything beyond KYC/escrow?
    by bklosky
  • This is super cool!

    I agree the non-fungible nature of a H100 (or whatever) is a massive challenge. How do you actually verify usage/thermal history on these? Hours run and thermal violations aren't stored on the card IIRC, only ECC error counts and retired pages persist in the GPU's own InfoROM, host side monitoring like DCGM logs, are only as good as whatever the seller hands over. Is condition at inspection based on a real monitoring export from the deployment or just an InfoROM/diagnostic check at the time, and if it's the latter isn't hours run and thermal history basically unverifiable unless we assume good faith and the seller was logging the whole time ?

    Essentially how do you avoid having the 'used car problem' without leaning heavily on seller reputation & warranties?

    by matt-p
  • I assume this is a strictly B2B proposition in spite of "built for every side of the GPU market" -- meaning I'm probably not going to be able to buy/bid on small (e.g. 2-8) lots of used, matched RTX 3090s for example?
    by mayank

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