Monthly report · October 2026
What it costs
What it costs
to run OffRails
Once a month we publish what we spent, grouped by what it pays for. Amounts are in US dollars.
Spent this month$3,895.16
Spent or lost$2,955.95
Locked, comes back later$939.21
October 2026
Where the money went
Running costs
AI subscriptionsWriting and reviewing our code and contracts, and product images
$1,049.99Spent
GPU and infrastructureServers rented by the hour for chat, images and voice, tests included
$187.69Spent
Crypto address checkerChecks incoming payments for sanctioned or stolen money
$300.00Spent
RPC nodeLets our bots read every chain we accept payments on
$5.00Spent
Cloud hosting and domainsWebsite, API and database; domains paid two years ahead
$368.16Spent
Smart contracts
Contract deployment and network fees106 transactions on 5 chains, bots included
$105.90Spent
First contract version, withdrawnA text error in the NFT data could not be fixed on-chain, so we deployed again. That version's draw deposit and seat #1 fee can't be taken back0.4 ETH + 10 USDC
$939.21Can't be recovered
Draw deposit and seat #1 feeLocked in the live contracts. The deposit comes back once all nine seats are sold and drawn0.4 ETH + 10 USDC
$939.21Locked
Total$3,895.16
On-chain amounts use that day's ETH price. Locked money is counted in full this month; when it comes back, the month it returns will show it.