Your Questions About Gonka

Gonka is a real project with several key indicators of reliability:

• Public Founders: The Liberman family – Daniil, David, Anna, Maria. Not anonymous founders, but people with a 20-year public track record: ex-Snap Inc. (Kernel AR exit for ~$64M), Product Science ($18M investment). Their biographies are verifiable via LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Forbes.
• Institutional Investments: approximately $80M from Coatue ($48B AUM), Bitfury ($50M Series B), Insight Partners ($90B+ AUM), Benchmark (early investor in eBay, Uber, Snap), Slow Ventures, K5 Global. These are not nameless “crypto funds” – these are first-tier funds with trillions in combined assets.
• CertiK Audit: smart contract security verified by the leading company in Web3 auditing.
• Open Source Code: all code on GitHub – anyone can inspect it.
• Working Mainnet: launched in August 2025, ~4,648 GPUs, ~113 participants, ~582 ML-nodes. The network processes real AI requests every day.

A counter-argument you may encounter: some automatic scanners (like gridinsoft.com) give a low trust score to new domains. This is not an evaluation of the project – it's an automatic scan of a young domain. Real indicators of reliability – investments, audit, public team, working network – speak for themselves.

Nevertheless: a reliable project does not mean risk-free. This is an early-stage crypto project with inherent risks. Read the following questions.

For comparison: in the crypto industry, most failed projects shared common traits – an anonymous team, no audit, no institutional investors, no working product. Gonka does not fit any of these criteria. But the presence of all “green flags” does not eliminate market and regulatory risks. A reasonable approach: verify everything yourself (code on GitHub, CertiK audit, founders' biographies), try the free AI chat, and make an informed decision.

It depends on the path chosen. Here are all the options from free to maximum:

For pools: you invest money, the operator rents a GPU and mines GNK for you. Payouts are in GNK (CloudMine — in USDC on Base). Ancapex: entry from $1, daily payouts. Gonka.Top: collection for 2 weeks, monthly payouts for 180 days.

For a server: direct mining to your wallet. The operator handles setup, monitoring, and updates.

For your own host: you need an NVIDIA GPU with 40GB+ VRAM, CUDA, Docker, stable internet, and 24/7 uptime. This is the most profitable path—you keep all rewards without commissions. A detailed guide is in the mining guide.

Important: this is an investment, not a bank deposit. Profitability depends on the GNK price and network load.

No hidden fees: in a pool, you only pay the entry fee; the operator's commission is already included in the terms. The AI chat is completely free—we pay for calculations from our own wallet. Karman, GG Wallet, and Gonka.Wallet are free. The only additional costs are network fees when transferring GNK (minimal, a few cents).

About profitability: we consciously do not specify ROI percentages because they depend on the GNK price, which can change in either direction. Projects promising "guaranteed X% monthly income" are almost always a scam. Gonka is an investment in the early stage of a promising project, not a fixed-income instrument. More details on profitability factors are in the article "How much can you earn".

Yes, there are risks — as in any crypto project. Here are the specifics:

• Liquidity: GNK is not yet traded on large exchanges (CEX). Trading happens on SafeTrade and via HEX OTC. With low liquidity, selling a large volume at the current price can be difficult.
• Volatility: the token price can go both up and down. The current price is ~$0.13, but with low liquidity, sharp fluctuations in both directions are possible.
• Pool Yields: depend on the GNK price, network load, and the number of hosts. If the GNK price falls, your dollar income will drop proportionally, even if you receive the same amount of GNK.
• Competition: the market includes Render, Akash, io.net, Bittensor, as well as centralized providers (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic). There is no guarantee that Gonka will capture a dominant market share.
• Regulatory Risks: cryptocurrencies and DePIN projects may face stricter legislation in various jurisdictions.
• Technical Risks: the mainnet was launched recently (August 2025), and the network is still young. inferenced does not work on all configurations yet (requires AVX on CPU).

What works in the project's favor: $80M from Tier-1 funds, CertiK audit, a public team with a 20-year track record, and a working mainnet with ~4,648 GPUs — this is more serious than 99% of crypto projects. But "serious" does not mean "risk-free".

Rule: invest only what you are prepared to lose. This is not a bank deposit — it is an investment with risks. Nothing on this site is financial advice.

How to minimize risks: start with a minimum investment ($30—100 in the pool) to understand the mechanics. Diversify: do not put all your funds into one project. Set a loss limit for yourself — an amount the loss of which will not affect your lifestyle. Keep track of project news through official channels. And remember: a detailed breakdown of risks and prospects is in a separate article.

A step-by-step plan from zero to your first GNK:

1. Try the AI chat for free: visit the AI chat page on our website. Ask a question—a real Kimi K2.6 neural network will respond via the decentralized Gonka network. No registration, no payment required. See for yourself that it works.
2. Read "How to start earning GNK": determine your path—pool, server, or self-hosted. Consider your budget, technical skills, and desired level of control.
3. Create a wallet: Karman opens in your browser, nothing to install, and you keep your keys. If you plan to delegate GNK to validators, you will need GG Wallet (a Chrome extension). A wallet is required to receive and store GNK.
4. Choose a provider: go to the comparison page. Compare pools (Gonka.Top, GonkaPool.ai, Ancapex, CloudMine (Mingles)) and servers (Gonka.Top, Spheron—users from Russia may face payment difficulties). Pay attention to commissions, payout history, and referral programs.
5. Get started: for a pool—registration and payment (10–15 minutes). For a server—payment and waiting for setup (1–2 days). For self-hosting—installation, configuration, on-chain registration (several hours, see the mining guide).

The entire process from your first introduction to your first GNK: from 10 minutes (pool) to several hours (self-hosted).

How long it will take: AI chat—instantly (just open the page). Wallet installation—2–5 minutes. Pool registration—10–15 minutes. Dedicated server setup—1–2 business days (the operator does everything for you). Self-hosted setup—from several hours to a day (depending on experience). First GNK from a pool—in 2–4 weeks (pool collection time + start of mining).

Don't delay the first step: the hardest part is getting started. Try the AI chat right now—it takes 30 seconds and costs nothing. Ask any question: "What is Gonka?", "Write a poem", "Explain quantum physics"—and see that decentralized AI works. After that, every next step will be easier.