June was a significant month for Aethir as we unveiled a series of key announcements. We celebrated our first TGE anniversary with several exciting campaigns and activations, and we’ve announced Season 2.0 of Aethir Cloud Drop. As we continue to pioneer decentralized cloud innovation, we have unlocked additional utility options for eATH holders in collaboration with Pendle’s DeFi platform. Furthermore, we’ve launched Aethir Tribe, an innovative program to onboard thousands of micro-KOL ambassadors into the Aethir ecosystem as our official brand voices. We continued to expand the Aethir ecosystem through new partnerships and clients across the AI, Web3, and gaming landscapes. Our team has also been spreading Aethir’s vision of universal decentralized cloud computing at several high-profile Web3 and AI events in June.

Let’s dive into Aethir’s June 2025 recap to learn all the details about our decentralized cloud journey last month.

Aethir’s June GPU Dashboard Updates

Aethir’s GPU dashboard metrics continuously showed steady growth of our decentralized cloud computing infrastructure in June.

1. Annual Recurring Revenue: $141+ million
2. Total GPU Containers: 432,000+
3. Total Compute Hours Delivered: 899+ million
4. Total ATH Rewards Distributed: 5.49+ billion
5. Total On-Chain Transactions: 1.33+ million

Celebrating Aethir’s First TGE Anniversary

On June 12th, we celebrated our first TGE anniversary. In the days and weeks leading up to the anniversary, we announced several exciting campaigns, including Aethir’s staking season, which started in late May and ran through the entire month of June, rewarding our loyal stakers with 3x rewards for 10 weeks. Additionally, we organized trading competitions and activations across numerous leading centralized cryptocurrency exchange platforms, including ByBit, MEXC, Gate.io, OKX, and others. 

Furthermore, we published three TGE anniversary blogs, celebrating Aethir’s key milestones and achievements over the past year and announcing upcoming innovations. We released a retrospective of our premium partnerships, highlighting some of our most critical cross-industry collaborations that brought tremendous value to our stakeholders. In a deep dive into our TGE anniversary accomplishments, we took a walk down memory lane to acknowledge all our product launches, network upgrades, and innovations from the past year. 

Aethir Cloud Drop Season 2.0

We announced the much-awaited Season 2.0 of Aethir Cloud Drop to reward our loyal community members who have been with us throughout our journey. Aethir is rewarding long-term supporters, as building infrastructure requires a commitment. Checker Node holders, ATH stakers, and Cloud Hosts are the primary beneficiaries of Aethir Cloud Drop Season 2.0, along with our global network of micro KOLs. Without Checker Node holders, ATH stakers, and Cloud Hosts, Aethir’s GPU cloud would not function. These community groups have been directly supporting Aethir’s daily operations and network stability since the launch of our mainnet. They are the core pillars of Aethir’s DePIN stack, and we want to reward our long-term supporters whose commitment has helped us build Aethir’s decentralized cloud infrastructure.

Unlocking More eATH Utility for our Community with Pendle

Aethir launched the eATH pool on Pendle, enabling stakers to split eATH into PT and YT for advanced DeFi strategies, such as looping and hedging, in GPU-based DePIN. This collaboration introduced eATH (EigenATH), Aethir’s liquid staking token tied to our EigenLayer ATH Vault, directly to Pendle’s innovative yield trading ecosystem, enabling new DeFi options and yield-generating strategies for Aethir stakers. GPU-based DePIN staking integrates into Pendle’s DeFi framework for the first time, bringing modular infrastructure yield to restaking-native DeFi users. Aethir’s eATH pool on Pendle allows stakers to leverage SY-eATH, a standardized yield token designed for seamless integration with Pendle’s yield trading and automated market maker (AMM) mechanisms.

Aethir Tribe: A Global Program to Onboard Thousands of KOL Ambassadors

As we celebrated our first TGE anniversary, we introduced Aethir Tribe, a unique program to onboard thousands of Aethir community members as micro-KOL ambassadors. We owe our success to the amazing Aethir community, which believed in our vision of universal cloud computing from day one. Through Aethir Tribe, we are giving community members the chance to become official voices of the Aethir ecosystem. The Aethir Tribe program is designed to reward active community members and incentivize them to create engaging social media content related to Aethir’s DePIN stack. By onboarding thousands of micro-KOL ambassadors, we are supercharging Aethir’s global reach as the only decentralized enterprise-grade GPU-as-a-service provider for AI and gaming. 

Ecosystem Expansion with AI Unbundled Batch 2 and Exciting Partnerships 

The Aethir ecosystem is expanding globally, with the announcement of batch 2 of our AI Unbundled alliance. The AI Unbundled alliance has been joined by seven new partners, including Theta Labs, Plume Network, Cere Network, Irys, Impossible Cloud Network, NEO, and Hologram. 

Aethir’s roster of AI industry innovators is steadily expanding, showing increasing trust in Aethir’s DePIN stack as a reliable and cost-effective compute provider. We’ve published customer highlight blogs showcasing how three of our esteemed clients, Attentions.ai, kluster.ai, and GG3, leverage Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud to power different types of AI innovations for their users. On the AI front, we also welcomed Project Zero, as we push the boundaries of real-time blockchain data and high-performance computing.

Aethir Edge, our consumer-grade cloud computing device product line, has established an exciting collaboration with Tashi Network to support their Alpha Testnet Node Launch through Aethir Edge’s decentralized GPU infrastructure.

We’ve expanded Aethir’s reach in the DeFi sector by joining Lynx Protocol, a Sonic-native perp DEX that allows users to use ATH as collateral to open leveraged positions. Furthermore, Aethir joined the CoinMarketCap Community to develop a better connection with our loyal Aethirians. Additionally, Aethir became an official partner of the Global AI Conference & Hackathon Tokyo 2025.

Aethir’s June Events

In New York, our cofounder and CSO, Mark Rydon, participated in DeAI Day, our high-profile co-hosted event at Permissionless NYC, to discuss why users still choose centralized AI over decentralized alternatives and how to convert them. We also held Pioneer Connect: Permissionless Edition, a high-energy rooftop gathering uniting Web3 founders, builders, investors, and KOLs during Permissionless week in NYC. 

Aethir India continued to organize fantastic live events as part of the AI for भारत (India) tour, spanning various cities and regional Web3 hotspots, spreading the word about Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud. The tour events gathered 500+ community members interested in expanding their knowledge of Aethir’s distributed cloud ecosystem and supporting our DePIN stack through the Aethir Forge grassroots community program. Our Indian team held meetups in Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad. We also had a splendid rooftop meetup in Istanbul for our Turkish Aethir Forge community, as well as an event in Vietnam for our local community. 

As we enter July, Aethir continues to announce new partnerships, key milestones, and product updates, leading decentralized cloud innovation on a global scale.