# The Render Token

DevFeed: [The Render Token](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-render-token-37579.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://brendaneich.com/2017/09/the-render-token/>)

Author: Brendan Eich

Published: 2017-09-25T14:57:39Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brendan Eich](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brendan-eich.md>)

Topics: [render](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/render.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [watermarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/watermarking.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [proof of work](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proof-of-work.md>)

Tags: [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [proof-of-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proof-of-work.md>), [render](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/render.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>), [watermarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/watermarking.md>)

## AI overview

Brendan Eich discusses OTOY's RNDR token as a decentralized GPU-cloud rendering system for AR/VR, games, and movies. He describes token-based access to computing resources, blockchain-attested work verification, renderer reputation, hardware-assisted confidentiality, and watermarking for protecting digital models and art.

## Source excerpt

I wrote about OTOY over four years ago, in "Today I Saw The Future". Since then, I have been inspired by the commitment of the founders Jules Urbach and Alissa Grainger to the vision that Jules enunciates: "... to render and remix simulated reality as effortlessly as the web did for text and digital media. ... Continue reading "The Render Token"