If you're still sleeping on $DNODE, wake up.

Evans Web3 Dev – yes, the Virtuals curator and host of Into the Trenches – just went hands-on with Dealer Node and basically said: this is way bigger than anyone is pricing in right now.

His exact words:

"$DNODE is way bigger than people think.

Just tested the platform, it lets you spin up a private, disposable machine just by sending a message. Pay only for the seconds used in ETH.
Clean. Fast. Zero trace."

And then he dropped the real alpha:

The Dealer Node dev confirmed he's actively building the Virtuals ACP integration.

When ephemeral compute hits Virtuals Agent Compute Protocol, everything changes.

Real use cases that instantly clicked for me:

• CENTRY runners testing malicious code in completely isolated, throwaway machines
• MUTE / PRXVT / BLKH style agents executing transfers or heavy compute with zero history, then deleting the instance the second they're done
• Any agent deploying tools, robots, or one-off scripts on demand without ever running persistent (expensive) infrastructure

This is literally the missing piece for true agent autonomy.

No more "keep a VPS warm just in case."
No more chain exposure or persistent attack surface.
Just spin it up, do what you need to do, pay pennies in ETH, vanish.

Evans closed it perfectly:

"Ephemeral compute + ACP = a whole new layer of agent superpowers.
Don’t fade it!"

The demo video he attached is stupidly clean too – guided assistant, natural language commands, instance spins up in seconds, terminal access ready, cost tracking in real time, delete when finished.

This isn't some vague roadmap promise. It's live, it works today, and the Virtuals integration is already in development.

In a world where every serious agent team is about to get crushed by compute bills and security surface, Dealer Node just handed them god mode.

And $DNODE is the token that wins when that realization hits the market.

If you're in Virtuals, if you're in agents, if you're in infra meta at all – you now know what to do.

Don't fade it.
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