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Render RENDER
Render (RENDER) was trading at $1.35, ranked #96 by market cap at $701.78M, with 24h volume of $9.51M.
Data snapshot: 2026-08-03 09:00 UTC.
RENDER powers the Render Network, a marketplace that matches people who need GPU-heavy rendering — 3D graphics, visual effects, and increasingly AI compute — with owners of idle GPU capacity willing to rent it out. Node operators earn RENDER for completing rendering jobs, turning spare graphics-card power scattered across many machines into an on-demand compute market. Render matches people who need GPU rendering with people who have idle GPUs, paying in RENDER — a marketplace for compute rather than a model or an agent. Its original use case was 3D graphics rendering, and it broadened towards AI workloads as demand for GPU time shifted. It is included in the AI group here for that reason, though it is equally a distributed-compute network. Its usage is genuinely measurable in rendered frames and jobs, which is more than most tokens in this sector can say.
What is Render's marketplace for?
Matching demand for GPU compute with idle GPU capacity, originally for 3D rendering and increasingly for AI workloads.
Is RENDER an AI token or a compute token?
Both descriptions apply. It is a distributed compute marketplace whose demand has shifted towards AI workloads as GPU scarcity increased.
How is usage measured?
In jobs and rendered output paid for through the network, which is a more concrete usage metric than most tokens in this sector have.
What determines demand?
The price and availability of GPU compute elsewhere. When centralised capacity is scarce or expensive, a distributed marketplace becomes more competitive.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places RENDER on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #34 | Bittensor (TAO) | $2.21B |
| #84 | Venice Token (VVV) | $754.88M |
| #96 | Render (RENDER) | $701.78M |
| #115 | Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) | $442.20M |
| #120 | Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) | $311.79M |