Galadriel’s secondary market allows you to resell unused GPU time when you finish your workload early. This unique feature helps you recover costs and creates additional liquidity in the marketplace.
You (Original Buyer) Marketplace New Buyer──────────────────── ─────────── ─────────1. Buy 7 days @ $1.30/hr ↓2. Use GPUs for 5 days ↓3. List remaining 2 days @ $1.20/hr → Order added to orderbook ↓4. Buyer purchases ← Match occurs at $1.20/hr ↓ ↓5. Transfer scheduled Transfer time: Your access ends 2025-11-12 14:00 ↓ ↓6. Receive: Buyer gets: - Original refund - Full node access - Resale proceeds - Your remaining time
💰 Creating resell order for unused GPU time...✓ Order ID: ord_resell123✓ Lease: lse_xyz123 (16x H100 GPUs)✓ Original price: $1.30/GPU/hr✓ Resell price: $1.20/GPU/hr✓ Time remaining: 48 hours (2 days)✓ Potential recovery: $2,304.00✓ After 10% platform fee: $1,958.40📊 Your lease timeline: Now ────────────> 2025-11-12 14:00 ────────────> 2025-11-14 14:00 │ │ │ You keep using Transfer to buyer Original end (if matched)💡 Next steps: - Your order is live in the marketplace - Continue using GPUs until transfer time - You'll be notified when a buyer is matched - Check status: galadriel order get ord_resell123
💰 Creating resell order for unused GPU time...✓ Matched instantly!✓ Buyer: ord_buyer789✓ Sale amount: $2,304.00 (16 GPUs × 48h × $1.20)✓ Platform fee (10%): -$345.60✓ Net recovery: $1,958.40✓ Original refund: $2,649.60 (from Galadriel)✓ Total recovered: $4,608.00🎉 Your unused GPU time has been sold!⏰ Transfer scheduled for: 2025-11-12 14:00 UTC - Your access will be terminated at that time - Buyer will receive kubeconfig and SSH access - Funds will be credited to your account📧 You'll receive: 1. Confirmation email now 2. Reminder 1 hour before transfer 3. Transfer completion notification
⏰ Lease Transfer ReminderYour lease lse_xyz123 will transfer in 1 hour:- Transfer time: 2025-11-12 14:00 UTC- New owner: Customer ord_buyer789- Your access will be terminatedAction required:- Save any important data- Stop running jobs- Your pods will be deleted at transfer time
At Transfer Time (Automated):
Step 1: Your access terminated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━- All your pods deleted- Kubeconfig invalidated- SSH access revoked- Namespace cleaned upStep 2: Buyer access granted━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━- New namespace created- Fresh kubeconfig generated- SSH keys set up- Full access to same nodesStep 3: Financial settlement━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━- Original refund: $2,649.60 credited- Resale proceeds: $1,958.40 credited- Total: $4,608.00 in your account
What if my resell order doesn't match before transfer time?
If your resell order doesn’t match by the transfer time (available_from), it will be automatically cancelled. Your lease continues until the original end time. You keep using the GPUs as normal.You can:
Create a new resell order with different pricing
Continue using until original lease end
Terminate early for a refund
Can I continue using GPUs while listed for resale?
Yes! You maintain full access until the transfer time. The resell order just makes your unused time available for future purchase.Your timeline:
Now ──────────────> Transfer Time ─────────> Original End│ │ │Full access Transfer happens Would have ended(working normally) (if matched)
What happens to my running pods at transfer?
At transfer time, all your pods are automatically deleted. The buyer gets clean nodes.Best practice:
Save checkpoints before transfer time
Set available_from to when you’re actually done
Don’t schedule critical jobs near transfer time
Can I cancel after the order is matched?
No. Once matched, the transfer is committed. The buyer has already paid, and the transaction cannot be reversed.You will receive:
1 hour warning before transfer
Final notification at transfer
Make sure you’re ready to give up access before creating the resell order.
