Operator name: Khidi — OpenAI-compatible API reseller service

[jack-maguli]

Discord: jack.maguli
Creator address to allow-list: gonka127szvy0fnscx03jjejmf6ednj6dezercldzzz4
Models we plan to serve: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7, moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6, zai-org/GLM-5.2-FP8

Background: I was an early miner on Gonka (addresses gonka19djgy0erv0wddgynxafe787s25cj8c9evhzuuf, gonka1jprcfmj3x3uddc7tt9ha4zxk6kwy3y87cht4wf, gonka1cx4dkft2kzdzfjcuale2lw5cqaptdzgahwrj90). I'm now building a prepaid, USD and USDT billed API service targeting developers who have never heard of Gonka — bringing net-new inference demand to the network rather than redistributing existing users. Infrastructure is already deployed (Hetzner, LiteLLM billing layer, funded wallets); we're ready to run the official devshardctl gateway and open escrows as soon as the address is approved. Happy to provide any additional information. Initial go-to-market focus is Georgia and the wider Caucasus region — a developer market no existing Gonka broker serves, with local-language onboarding and regional payment habits (USDT-friendly) — expanding globally from there.

[tcharchian]

Hi @jack-maguli, thanks for the detailed write-up. Good news: for what you're describing (a prepaid USD/USDT reseller on top of Gonka), you probably don't need to be allow-listed at all.

• Adding a creator address to devshard_escrow_params.allowed_creator_addresses happens only via governance vote — Gonka is a decentralized network, so there's no central team that grants it, and an issue like this registers interest but doesn't grant access or imply a timeline.
• But you don't need that path to run Khidi. There's a community project, OpenBroker (OpenBroker - broker for brokers or Devshards as a service. #1363), built exactly for people who want to resell inference without whitelisting their own wallet or getting a broker key. It runs the devshard/escrow infra under an already-whitelisted wallet and exposes a plain OpenAI-compatible endpoint. From your side it's "register → deposit GNK → grab API key → point your OpenAI client at it".