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// ATON Constellation
Your idle machine, training Kestrel.
Earn points while it helps.
A free app for Windows, Mac and Linux. While your computer sits idle, its GPU or CPU runs small pieces of Kestrel's research. Other members' machines check every result, and you earn points toward your plan.
// How it works
Five steps, all in the background
01
Install
Download the app for Windows, Mac or Linux. It is free, and you need no plan to take part.
02
Sign in
Sign in with your Atheron account. Your machine is tied to you, so the points it earns are yours.
03
Only while idle
It starts after a few idle minutes and stops within a second when you come back. Never on battery, and always inside the temperature and power limits you set.
04
Peers check the work
Every result is run on two or more members' machines and has to match. Some answers we already know, and some we run again ourselves, so nobody earns for work they did not do.
05
Earn points
Each checked result earns points for the electricity it used, at your country's average household price plus 50%. Points pay for your plan, never cash.
// Why we built it
Built by the people who use it
Members help build Kestrel
Your machine runs real research for ATON Kestrel, and each result links to the release, sweep or test it fed.
Backtests run faster
Thousands of machines test strategies side by side, including members' own Strategy Lab backtests when they opt in.
The rewards are shared
Points go back to the people who help, and each month the top contributors win plans.
// Download
Windows, Mac and Linux
The apps are in testing. The downloads open with the first public build, signed and with published hashes.
Join the beta
Beta testers run the app first, get a founding star badge and earn bonus points. Join from your Atheron account in a minute.
// Points calculator
What would my machine earn?
An estimate from the same rule and electricity prices the ledger uses.
- Power used
- 45 kWh a month
- Points
- 1,175 points a month
- What they buy
- About 0.3 months of Glacier
Worth C$11.75 of plan credit.
- Glacier: 0.3 months
- Arctic: 0.1 months
- Aurora: 0 months
Up to 5% more on Beta builds and up to 10% more for a strong reputation, inside the same cap.
Average household electricity in your country: C$0.1741 per kWh (published, converted from US dollars at 1.4154).
Prices: GlobalPetrolPrices.com, household electricity prices (Q3 2026 update), read on 2026-10-13. Points start once your identity is verified to Core. Real use depends on the jobs; points come from our benchmark for your device's class, not its own meter.
// The map
Every machine is a star
The network draws itself across the world. Each month's top contributors become named stars.
Kestrel is being trained by 26 members' machines right now.
Legend
- GPU machines
- CPU machines
- Atheron core
- Atheron star
- Market data servers
- Atheron house nodes
- Verifier, checks answers
- Jobs going out
- Answers coming back
- Atheron star checking work
- Market data feeding Atheron star
- Machines checking each other
Live map of the Constellation network: members' machines at their nearest large city, our servers, and the work moving between them. Machines online: 44. Jobs in flight: 29. Verified in the last minute: 99. Running a job: 26. Jobs a minute, last minute: 59. Answers a minute, last minute: 63. Star checks a minute, last minute: 2. Verified today: 53,083
Every dot is a member's machine at its nearest large city, moved a little and never named.
// Safety and privacy
What runs on your machine, and what never does
The network is built so that a job cannot reach your files, your money or our keys.
What runs
Backtests, strategy sweeps, news scoring with our own small models and experimental training of small Kestrel nets. Only derived data: no coin names, dates or exchanges.
What never does
Live trading, exchange keys, the vault, order routing, market watching from your connection, full model weights and raw exchange data. None of it ever reaches the network.
A sandbox for every job
Jobs run with no access to your files or the internet. The app runs as you, never as an administrator, and opens no port unless you turn relaying on.
Signed and up to date
The app and every job are signed. Updates arrive between jobs, in stages, and roll back on their own if something goes wrong.
What we see
Each report carries your device class, run times and temperatures. Never file names, usernames or your precise location: the map places you in your country.
Pause or uninstall
One click in the tray pauses it for an hour, a day or until restart. Uninstall it like any other app, and nothing is left running.
// Monthly stars
A leaderboard, every month
Ranked by checked work, never by money. The winners become named stars on the map.
- 1st: a year of Borealis
- 2nd and 3rd: six months of Aurora
- 4th to 10th: three months of Arctic
- The top 3 in each region win too
No purchase needed. Winners answer a skill-testing question. Prizes are won from now. A prize's plan months start counting on go-live day, the day real-money trading opens. The official rules are on our legal pages.
Be one of the first stars
Join the beta waitlist from your Atheron account. We will tell you when your download is ready.