USE CASES
What the marketplace layer would make possible.
Nine applications, none of them buildable today. Each one says which primitives it needs and the earliest phase that could deliver them.
01 · WHAT YOU CAN BUILD TODAY
What you can build today
Stated before the nine, because a page that files this in a footnote costs a developer permanently.
You can deploy Solidity contracts to the Kronex testnet today, with Hardhat or Foundry, against the Ethereum JSON-RPC surface. The tooling you already own works unchanged. That is an ordinary EVM chain, and it is real.
What it is not is the nine below. Every one of those needs orders, escrow, privacy, gateways or verification as on-chain primitives, and none of the five exists yet. This page publishes them anyway, so the shape of what is being built is public before it is built — and so a developer can tell which phase unblocks the thing they care about.
02 · THE NINE
Nine applications, and what each is waiting on
One badge for all nine — they share a status. The chips differ, and that is the useful part.
Reading the chips — five primitives, each with the phase that delivers itplanned
- orders · 02 Programmable Marketplace
- privacy · 03 Privacy
- verification · 04 Compute & AI Market
- escrow · 05 Financial Provider Network
- gateways · 06 Gateway Network
Phase 04
Four unblock together. Each needs orders and verification, and nothing later than the Compute & AI Market.
Private AI services
Pay for AI inference without exposing unnecessary financial or operational information.
- orders · 02
- privacy · 03
- verification · 04
Decentralized GPU marketplaces
Match GPU supply with computational demand.
- orders · 02
- verification · 04
Computing APIs
Build applications that automatically acquire compute.
- orders · 02
- verification · 04
Infrastructure exchanges
Trade access to digital resources.
- orders · 02
- verification · 04
Phases 05–06
Three waiting on a financial or gateway primitive.
Decentralized escrow
Secure transactions between unknown participants.
- orders · 02
- escrow · 05
Private OTC platforms
Confidential RFQ and settlement infrastructure.
- orders · 02
- privacy · 03
- escrow · 05
Provider networks
Create specialized marketplaces using Kronex settlement.
- orders · 02
- gateways · 06
Phases 07–08
Two last — not because of the primitives. Each waits on the phase that delivers the market itself.
Hashpower marketplaces
Buy verified Proof-of-Work computation.
- orders · 02
- verification · 04
- gateways · 06
Autonomous AI agents
Agents purchase infrastructure and services automatically.
- orders · 02
- escrow · 05
- verification · 04
The phase on each chip is the phase that delivers that primitive, taken from the roadmap. The gate is the latest of them, plus the phase that delivers the market itself where the roadmap names one — so it is a floor, not a date. Nothing here is scheduled.
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