How it
actually works

No hand-waving. This page walks the whole machine from the fan in your case to the token in your wallet, and says out loud who is holding your money at every single step.

The whole thing in one picture

Five stops. You own the first and the last one, and nobody — including us — can stop the money in between.

WHO CAN TOUCH THE MONEY 01 Your rig Any GPU. Stays exactly where it is. YOU 02 NiceHash Sells your compute. Pays you per job. NICEHASH 03 Your payout Withdrawn to an address you own. YOU 04 OREON vault Swaps and forwards in one transaction. NOBODY 05 Your wallet nvda lands. Your keys, your address. YOU GPU TIME CRYPTO NVDA EXPOSURE

Green outline = an address only you control. The vault is the only piece we wrote, and it is the one place where the money does not stop.

Step 2 — what NiceHash does

This is the part people get wrong, so here it is flat: NiceHash is a marketplace, not a mining pool that pays in a coin nobody wants.

Buyers who need compute — rendering farms, model shops, people fine-tuning something with a deadline — post orders and pay for GPU time. Your machine takes those orders. NiceHash handles the matching, the buyers, the pricing and the payout, and it has been doing that since 2014.

What you do: install their client, point it at your account, leave the machine on. What OREON does at this stage: nothing at all. We are not in the loop, we do not touch your account, and if OREON vanished tomorrow your rig would keep earning exactly the same.

You hold

Your NiceHash account and your withdrawal address. We never get either.

They hold

Your balance until you withdraw it — the same as any exchange. That is their custody, not ours.

We hold

Nothing. At this stage OREON is a page you have not used yet.

Step 4 — the contract, in plain English

One function does the real work. It is short on purpose: the less a contract can do, the less it can do to you.

ONE TRANSACTION — ALL OF THIS OR NONE OF IT Yousend USDG Take 1%our only revenue SwapUSDG → nvda Check pricerevert if worse Send it outto your address Youhold nvda BALANCE HELD BY THE CONTRACT WHEN THE TRANSACTION ENDS ZERO — the contract has no balance to steal, because it never keeps one.

If any step fails — bad price, thin liquidity, wrong token — the whole transaction reverts and your money never left your wallet.

// the shape of it. one call, one outcome.
function convert(
    uint256 amountIn,      // what you send
    uint256 minOut,        // the least nvda you accept
    address recipient      // where it lands — your address
) external;

Three things worth noticing. minOut is yours, not ours — you set the worst price you will accept, and if the market cannot beat it the transaction dies instead of filling you badly. recipient is a parameter, so the output goes straight where you said, not into a balance we manage. And there is no withdraw, no pause, no owner function that can reach your money, because the contract never has your money to reach.

The converter keeps working with every OREON server switched off. If we disappear, the contract is still there and you can call it yourself.

Who is holding your money, step by step

The whole argument for OREON is this table. If it ever stops being true, stop using us.

StepWho holds itWhat that means
01 · Your rigYouYour hardware, your electricity, your call to switch it off.
02 · NiceHashNiceHashThey hold your earned balance until you withdraw, like any marketplace. Their terms apply, not ours.
03 · PayoutYouYou withdraw to an address you control. OREON is not a party to this.
04 · The vaultNobodyFunds pass through inside one transaction. The contract holds no balance between calls.
05 · Your walletYounvda sits at your address. We cannot move it, freeze it or claw it back.

The attestor, and why it runs on your machine

To show your rig's output on a dashboard, something has to read your NiceHash account. That something is not our server.

The attestor is a small open-source program you run locally. It reads your earnings through NiceHash's own read-only API and reports a signed summary. Your API key never leaves your computer. We receive numbers, never credentials — and even if our database were dumped tomorrow, there would be nothing in it that could touch your account.

Leaves your machine

How much your rig earned, which GPU model, and a timestamp.

Never leaves

Your API key, your password, your wallet keys, your seed phrase.

You can read it

Source is public. If it ever asks for a key upload, it is not ours.

What can still go wrong

Everything above is about what we cannot do to you. This is about what the world can still do to both of us.

nvda is not a share

It is a tokenized Reg S debt instrument tracking NVIDIA's price. No voting rights, no claim on NVIDIA, and an issuer as your counterparty.

The price moves

You are swapping a stable payout for exposure to one company. It goes down as easily as up.

Liquidity is finite

Large conversions move the price against you. That is why minOut exists — use it.

The margins are thin

A single card earns single-digit dollars a day before electricity. In some countries the net is zero.

Partners have terms

NiceHash holds your balance until withdrawal and their rules govern that leg, not ours.

Not everywhere

US persons and other restricted jurisdictions are blocked. This is checked, not assumed.

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