About
Jupiter Faucet is a perpetual cycles top-up protocol for the Internet Computer - built to help canister smart contracts keep running indefinitely. The Internet Computer is designed for tamperproof, "unstoppable" on-chain services; Jupiter Faucet focuses on the practical part: making sure canisters don’t run out of cycles, even if nobody is maintaining the project.
To learn more about cycles, what they are, and why they matter, visit the Internet Computer cycles guide.
The perpetual top-up workflow is intentionally designed to be so simple that anyone can carry it out as a one-off operation directly from NNS dapp using the enhanced transfer and memo flow - no further setup required. See How It Works for more information.
Jupiter Faucet is built to propel big burners, including cycle-intensive on-chain AI workloads such as WORDY, helping projects get the most out of ICP→cycles conversion over the long run.
Jupiter Faucet is open source, reproducibly buildable, and designed to decentralize control over time. The core components will be blackholed. A worst-case scenario lifeline is built into the canisters so they can temporarily hand control to the SNS DAO if a breaking change in a network dependency prevents disbursals or other core functionality, then blackhole themself again once service resumes.
