Lium served 7,549 GPU rentals across 900 paying accounts in August 2026, and by 11 September 2026 the marketplace had 470 nodes online carrying 1,329 GPUs between them, real usage for a company that only took the Lium name in mid-2025. The five sections below cover how the marketplace works, what its latest numbers show, how providers, renters, and independent verifiers keep it honest, what protects a rented job once it is running, and what the growth signals for GPU rental more broadly.