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title: Dashboard & Billing Layer
date: January 15, 2025
version: "0.8.5"
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## 🎛️ January 2025: Dashboard & Billing Layer

- **User Dashboard Alpha (`dashboard.vertexgpu.com`)**  
  Introduced a minimal UI for:
  - Real-time GPU availability search
  - Tracking active GPU leases
  - Wallet balance and billing breakdowns

- **Usage Metering System**  
  Built on the **GridLink telemetry stream**, this metering backend ensured accurate, granular billing based on compute time and hardware class.

- **Smart Lease Contract Format (SLC v0.2)**  
  Migrated leasing agreements to a serialized and signed JSON structure for immutability and contract enforcement. SLCs are stored redundantly across peer nodes and tied to unique NodeIDs.