You never sell your business, and you never lock it away. Renting on AIBIZ lends one thing — the right to run it — for a day, a week, or a month. Then it comes home by itself.
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Think of a food truck. You own it. One week you're busy, so you let a friend drive it — they run the route, keep that week's takings, and hand you the keys back on Sunday. You never sold the truck. You never locked it in a garage. You lent the ability to use it.
That is exactly what renting is on AIBIZ. Your "truck" is a chip — a small NFT that is really a whole running business (a phone line, a workflow desk, an aibox inbox). And the "keys" are a single idea called residency.
Every chip constantly answers one question for the network: "which machine is allowed to run this business right now?" That answer is its residency. Normally it points at your machine. When you rent the chip out, residency points at the renter's machine instead — for the length of the term, and not a second longer. The NFT itself never moves out of your wallet.
Renting reassigns the right to run the business to someone else's machine for a fixed time. The NFT never leaves the owner's wallet.
Live now: for the term, the leased business's earnings are the renter's — every paid call served by the chip credits the renter (70%), and it reverts to the owner automatically at term end. Your wallet shows it under "Chips I'm running & earning from."
Coming next, seam by seam: operating the chip's inbox from your wallet, and making outbound calls "as the chip." Renting already means something concrete — you collect the business's takings for the term; the fuller operate-everything experience is being added on top.
It's the most common assumption — that renting means freezing your token in a vault so you can't touch it. On AIBIZ, no. Your NFT stays in your wallet, unlocked, the whole time. What moves is a right, not the asset.
There are two stages to how that right is enforced, and it helps to see both:
The lease is a signed record on the AIBIZ rail. The NFT stays in your wallet, not escrowed. It's a usage-rights lease — nothing is frozen.
The NFT moves into an escrow contract that holds it and points at the renter — so the lease is provable on-chain without the rail. Even then, the holding proves the lease; it isn't the point.
If you know the standards: this is close to ERC-4907 — the owner keeps the NFT and there's a separate, time-boxed "user" role. The difference on AIBIZ is that the renter's role isn't a decorative label apps can ignore. It's the execution licence that genuinely decides whether their machine may run the business.
AIBIZ has two things called "rent." They feel similar — pay, use for a term, it returns automatically — but the subject and the audience differ. Keeping them apart makes everything else click.
| Chip rental | Capability rental | |
|---|---|---|
| What's rented | A whole running business (a sub-SLD NFT) | The capability behind a name (workflows, aibox, voice) |
| Rented to | A machine (a wallet address) | A person (by email — no wallet needed) |
| What moves | Residency — the right to execute | A counted allowance of runs |
| Where | rent.1bz.biz + the wallet | the .work seat pages |
| Terms | day · week · month | hour · day · week · month |
| Split | 90% owner / 10% platform | 70 / 20 / 10 owner / platform / parent line |
Two places are involved, each doing what it's good at. The website is the shop window — browse and understand. The BizNode Wallet is where the deal happens, because a chip has to land on a real machine, and the wallet is that machine's identity (it holds the signing key).
Wallet → Rent a chip → Browse chips for rent → Lease onto this machine. The wallet then, on your device: checks you hold enough BZeUSD, signs the rent payment to the treasury, broadcasts it, waits for confirmations, and registers the lease. You see: "it now runs on THIS machine until <date> — returns to its owner automatically."
Wallet → My names & chips → a chip you own grows a Rent out button. Choose a term and a price; the wallet signs the listing (proving you own the chip on-chain) and posts it. It appears on rent.1bz.biz and in every wallet's Market. You keep the NFT the whole time.
Why the site never takes payment: leasing needs the renter's own device signature, and only the wallet holds that key. The site's job is discovery and the honest promise — auto-return, NFT stays home, 90% to the owner.
Rent is paid in BZeUSD. The split depends on which kind of rental it is — and there's one subtle, important rule underneath both.
For chip rental, the owner's 90% is credited to the chip's own ledger, not to a person's account. Money follows the asset. It fits the whole model: the chip is the business, so the business's earnings belong to the business — even if the chip later changes hands.
Here's a quiet piece of engineering worth understanding, because it's why you never have to chase anything. A lease doesn't end because a timer fires or a script runs at midnight — those can fail silently. A lease ends because of its own end-date.
And either side has a kill switch: the owner can end early if the renter misuses it; the renter can end early when they're done. Both are proven by a signature, so neither party can end a lease that isn't theirs.
You own a working business but don't have time to run it this month? List it. Someone else's machine does the work, 90% of the rent is yours (credited to the chip's ledger), and your NFT never leaves your wallet. When the term ends it's back, untouched — ready to run yourself or lease again.
It's the cheapest way into a working business — no purchase, no commitment past the term. For a day, a week or a month, the business's earnings are yours: every paid call it serves credits you (70%), and it reverts to the owner at term end. Try a line before you buy one; scale up for a busy week and hand it back after. (Operating its inbox and calling out "as the chip" from your wallet are being added next.)
No. It never leaves the owner's wallet (chip rental) or the AIBIZ vault (capability rental).
Not today — it's a usage-rights lease. On-chain escrow is the planned next phase, and even then the holding exists to prove the lease, not to block the asset.
Run the business: its calls, inbox, workflows and capability calls execute on the renter's machine (chip rental), or the renter gets a metered number of runs (capability rental).
Residency (or the run allowance) returns automatically — by timestamp, with no scheduler to fail.
Chip: 90% owner (to the chip's own ledger) / 10% platform. Capability: 70 / 20 / 10 (owner / platform / parent line).
Yes — a signed kill switch, available to either party.
Browse chips on the market, or list one you own — leasing happens in the BizNode Wallet.
All chip-lease routes sit under /api/chiprent: POST /challenge (nonce to sign), POST /list · /unlist (owner, signed), GET /offers (public), GET /resident/:parent/:sub (who holds residency, until when), POST /take (renter, after on-chain payment — the server verifies the transfer before granting), POST /end (either party, signed), GET /mine?address=.
Invariants: one live lease per chip; the renter can't be the owner; residentOf() is the single seam every consumer reads; leases self-expire by timestamp; every state change is device-signed and checked against the chain. Capability rental (/api/rent/*) is session-gated instead, because the renter is a signed-in person, and each rental carries its own run allowance checked against the owner's remaining quota.