Shello
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Straight answers
What Shello is, what it is not, and where its numbers come from.
Questions
Is Shello AGI?
No. Shello is a small program that reads public data, and a cheap language model that is only allowed to answer from what those reads return.
Does it rent GPUs or send transactions?
Shello never holds a key or your money, and it has no smart contract. Reading is free and needs no wallet. If you choose to rent a GPU on the Rent a shell page, your own wallet signs and pays Nosana's program directly: Shello builds and simulates that transaction, shows what it does, and passes it to Solana only after your wallet has signed it. Shello takes no fee.
Is it affiliated with Nosana, io.net, Akash or Jito?
No. Shello reads their public data and has no relationship with any of them, or with any provider it lists. Rent a shell builds transactions for Nosana's public on-chain program; Nosana does not endorse Shello.
Do I need a wallet?
No. Every page, every number, Ask Shello and the meme studio work without one. A wallet only matters for holder limits and alerts, after $SHEL launches.
Where do the numbers come from?
Solana mainnet over RPC, Jito's public tip floor, the Jupiter price API (CoinGecko if Jupiter does not answer), Nosana's public API, io.net's public explorer API and Akash's console API. Cloud and model API list prices come from a table where every row names its page and the day it was read. Each number on the site says when it was read.
What if a source goes down?
The number disappears and you see "unavailable, last good read HH:MM" instead. Shello never shows a stale number as current, never shows a zero for a failure, and never makes one up.
Why was a GPU price left out?
Some listings make no sense for their card, like a B300 at $0.23 an hour, or a six-GPU machine priced under a one-GPU label. Shello holds those back and lists them on the Status page with the reason.
Why is Vast.ai not on the list?
Its terms forbid scripted queries and building a dataset from its offers without written permission, so Shello does not read it.
Why a hermit crab?
A hermit crab spends its life finding the right shell: big enough to fit, cheap enough to keep. That is the whole job of picking a GPU for an agent. Also, crabs are funny.
Is the cost estimate exact?
No. A transaction's priority fee is built from what similar transactions just paid; a higher fee buys a better place in line, not a promise. GPU memory is computed from each model's published shape; speed is not measured.
Is $SHEL an investment?
Shello makes no promises about $SHEL's price, pays no profit or revenue share and does no buybacks. It only unlocks higher limits and alerts here. It is not launched yet.