What is Pearl that's been all over social media? The complete process of cloud-based credit card rental arbitrage: as long as the rental fee is below 0.7 USDT, you're making a profit.

Author: TIGER

The @prlnet Pearl Mining scheme that's been all over the news these past few days is essentially about "renting a 4090/5090 cloud mining card from a cloud computing platform, and then mining coins as soon as it starts running." Toni's original words were that the daily profit from mining, withdrawing, and selling is over 50% . At the current coin price of 1.3-1.4 USDT, as long as you can rent a fully-powered 4090 card for less than 0.7 USDT, you'll make a profit.

This article breaks down the process into a foolproof level, and at the end, it includes a profit model that you can calculate yourself . Don't just look at the sales pitch; do the math yourself before you get on board.

I. What is Pearl? (Understand in 30 seconds)

PoUW (Proof-of-Work) L1 public chain : Miners' GPUs are not calculating meaningless hashes, but performing matrix multiplications in AI inference/training. Mining and real computing power are the same calculation, with an additional overhead of only about 10%.
The mainnet will launch in April 2026. It has partnered with Together AI (NVIDIA Cloud Partner) to subsidize AI inference costs with token emissions (the Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl endpoint offers a 25% discount).
No pre-mining, no founding share, no VC , fair launch—this is the most compelling aspect of its narrative.

In short: the higher the price of cryptocurrency, the cheaper AI inference becomes, and the more people mine with computing power → This is a self-reinforcing flywheel.

II. Preparations before excavation

You only need two things:

A cloud computing power account that can rent 4090/5090
A Pearl wallet address

Card rental platforms (choose one; RunPod is recommended for beginners due to its user-friendly interface):

RunPod 👉 https://runpod.io?ref=4rltlnx9
VastAI 👉 https://cloud.vast.ai/?ref_id=559971

Three or four steps of excavation (nanny-level service)

Step 1 | Rent a card in RunPod/VastAI, filter for RTX 4090 / 5090 , and look for a "full-power card" (whole card, not time-sharing slice). The ironclad rule for card selection: rental fee < 0.7 USDT/hour (based on the current coin price, this is the break-even point, which will be calculated for you in Section 4 below).

Step 2 | Generate Pearl Wallet : Open 👉 http://compute.pearlresearch.ai/wallet and click Generate. Be sure to write down your mnemonic phrase offline and copy your wallet address for later use.

Step 3 | Configure the mining rig . Open 👉 https://pearlhash.xyz/#config and enter the wallet address from the previous step. The page will generate a one-click start command/script ; copy it. (pearlhash mining pool fee is 3%, minimum withdrawal is 1 PRL, very low barrier to entry.)

Step 4 | SSH into the instance and get it running

Configure the SSH key for the instance in RunPod/VastAI and connect.
Paste and execute the command copied in step 3.
Once you see the computing power reported and coins starting to be mined, you're done and can leave the machine running in the background.

The mining rig is essentially an official vLLM miner (CUDA) . Once running, the GPU outputs PRL while simultaneously providing AI inference computing power to the outside world.

Withdrawing and selling: After accumulating enough PRL, you can cash out via OTC ( otc.lordofpearls.xyz / pearl-otc.com/marketplace ) or cross-chain bridge pearlbridge.xyz .

IV. Cost/Benefit Calculation (Important, do the math yourself, don't get carried away)

Don't just believe in "50%+ daily profit", apply the formula yourself:

Core Formula

Daily net profit = Daily PRL generated per card × Coin price × (1 − 3% mining pool fee) − Rental fee/hour × 24

The simplest way to judge (recommended) : As long as the PRL value produced by a single card per hour is greater than the hourly rental fee , you are making money. This is the source of Toni's statement that "renting below 0.7U is making money"—at the current coin price, the hourly value produced by one 4090 is approximately 0.7U.

Break-even point (example; please fill in the data in real time using the pearlhash panel)

Assuming rental fee = 0.6 U/hour → Daily cost = 0.6 × 24 = 14.4 U
Assume the price of the coin is 1.3 USDT.
Therefore, the minimum daily output needed is: 14.4 ÷ (1.3 × 0.97) ≈ 11.4 PRL/genius to break even.
Anything exceeding this amount is pure profit.

Two levers

Lower rent is better : Keep an eye on spot/bid instances; 4090 instances with a rent of 0.4–0.5U offer the largest profit margin.
Cryptocurrency prices are a double-edged sword : a rise can double profits, while a drop below the rental threshold can result in immediate losses—that's why you need to check your account daily and avoid blindly placing orders.

V. Risk Warning (Must be read)

Price volatility : The calculations are all based on 1.3U. If the price drops by half, you will go from making a profit to losing money. In addition, early tokens are extremely volatile.
Sell slippage : PRL currently relies mainly on OTC/bridge monetization, which has limited depth. Large sells will have reduced slippage and faster settlement times.
Renting a card costs money every second : if the instance is not running at full capacity, there is a configuration error, or the network is interrupted, no mining can be done, but the rental fee will still be deducted.
Early-stage project uncertainties : The mainnet has just launched, and the collaborations and narratives are very appealing, but this also means that the rules, output, and mining pools may be adjusted at any time.

Conclusion : This isn't a guaranteed profit; it's a profit that "can be made by those who know how to do the math during the arbitrage window." First, rent a card and run it for 24 hours, then use real data to verify the profitability using the formula above before deciding whether to add leverage.

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