Huddle01
Decentralized real-time communication and Web3 cloud services
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About Huddle01
Huddle01 is a decentralised real-time communication network founded in 2020 that runs on Arbitrum and uses community nodes to supply audio and video bandwidth. Centralised meeting services bill by cloud resource, and cross-border latency and cost are set by a handful of data centres. Huddle01 places media nodes closer to users, routing calls through nearby nodes with end-to-end latency held under 100 milliseconds and cost settled by bandwidth; node operators stake a licence, contribute uplink and earn token rewards, while a scheduler picks paths by geography and load.
Products include Huddle01 Meet, the Farhouse audio spaces, Huddle Cloud and a developer SDK, with more than 840 million minutes carried, 170,000 users and 2,750 nodes online, sold mainly to Web3 communities, game voice and online education. The scheduler assigns media streams by node latency and spare bandwidth, and developers call the same network through one SDK with usage-based billing.
In 2026 Huddle01 pivoted from video meetings to cloud compute. Benchmarks published in January showed its $22-a-month AMD EPYC instance running concurrent image processing about 82% faster than an AWS c7i.large, with roughly five times the disk IOPS. The product moved to per-second billing with no egress markup and lets MCP clients such as Claude and Cursor provision virtual machines directly. The benchmark used one concurrent image-processing workload and list monthly pricing, without long-term commitment discounts.
On Huddle01's API side, optional model selection and bring-your-own-key parameters arrived on 27 May, followed by cloud-init and password login on 29 May. Self-serve signup closed on 16 September in favour of invite-only access, with enterprise accounts provisioned offline. The team reframed the pitch from social audio and video to compute for AI agents, tying in with agent products such as OpenClaw, with plans starting at $9 a month. Moving from social audio and video to compute changes the customer from creator to developer, which means rebuilding acquisition, support and margin structure. GPU tiers now sit on the pricing page, a sign the target buyer has moved from meeting hosts to inference and training teams.
Huddle01 will make MCP-native provisioning, per-second billing and GPU flavours the standard entry point, add regions, and use real-workload benchmarks to win teams migrating off hyperscale clouds.
Ayush Ranjan — Co-founder & CEO; previously led growth at several Indian B2C startups and was a Gitcoin researcher and TechStars Filecoin accelerator mentor.
Susmit Lavania — Co-founder & CTO; co-founded OC2, one of India's first DEXs, later acquired by CoinDCX; computer science graduate of LNMIIT.