Base Protocol's native token, POD, has experienced a significant rebound of over 35%, pushing its market capitalization above $137 million.

On May 30, monitoring from crypto analytics tool GMGN shows that POD (dphn.ai), a token from the Base ecosystem, saw a sharp rally of over 35% today, pushing its market cap above $137 million. The token’s 24-hour trading volume reached $1.2 million. Back on May 12, AI laboratory Dolphin announced that all protocol revenue would be used to buy back POD tokens from the open market. Holders can stake their POD in the xPOD treasury to earn rewards. The Dolphin Network uses a Peer-to-Pool architecture to repurpose idle GPUs: each AI model runs in a dedicated GPU pool, with tasks assigned randomly to network nodes—there’s no direct buy/sell order book matching. Nodes earn POD rewards from the protocol treasury based on the number of inference tokens they process. Users can purchase credits directly from the protocol, with support for payments in POD, ETH, BTC, USDC, XMR, and ZEC. All protocol revenue is earmarked for POD buybacks to directly offset inflation. POD holders who stake their tokens in the xPOD treasury gain automatic compounding dividends, daily inference quotas, and access to ecosystem subscription perks. BlockBeats reminds users that token prices are highly volatile, so investments should be made with caution.