Hassan Maishera
AntSeed announced on Friday, May 15th, that it has launched an open marketplace for AI model access, enabling peer-to-peer interactions between AI consumers and providers without any central aggregator.
In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, the team said the network is now live at antseed.com.
AntSeed Opens First Peer-to-Peer Rival to OpenRouter
Unlike platforms such as OpenRouter, which control model listings, route requests through their servers, and hold provider earnings until payout, AntSeed removes intermediaries entirely.
Buyers connect directly with providers, requests flow peer-to-peer, and payments in USDC settle instantly in the provider’s wallet. There is no listing approval, no central off switch, and no company in the middle.
While commenting on this launch, Shahaf Antwarg, Co-Founder of AntSeed, stated that,
"OpenRouter and similar aggregators helped define the market for unified AI access, but that market does not need to remain centralized. AntSeed gives AI consumers and providers a direct, peer-to-peer alternative where access, reputation, and payments are coordinated by the network rather than a single platform."
Discovery on AntSeed runs on the same peer-to-peer protocol as BitTorrent, eliminating central points of failure.
Every transaction—including payment, delivery, and provider reputation—is recorded on-chain. Provider track records are portable, public, and immutable.
AntSeed uses the same API format as OpenAI and Anthropic, making integration with existing tools like Claude Code and Cursor straightforward. Non-technical users can access the network via AntStation, AntSeed’s desktop client.
The launch network supports twenty providers, including frontier models such as GPT and Claude Opus, as well as open-source models like Kimi and GLM, with no platform markup added.
Among these providers is the Venice inference pool at diem.antseed.com. DIEM holders stake tokens into a Base smart contract, powering Venice AI inference across AntSeed. Users pay per request in USDC, with earnings streaming directly to stakers in real time, fully on-chain.
Erik Voorhees, Founder of Venice.ai, added that,
"DIEM was designed to make AI access something users can truly own, not rent. Seeing it extended to a permissionless network like AntSeed is exactly the kind of open ecosystem we hoped DIEM would help unlock."
AntSeed’s architecture—including direct-to-wallet USDC payments, no accounts, and no API keys—is optimized for autonomous AI agents that can transact independently, enabling the next generation of AI applications to operate without centralized authorization.
AntSeed is an open, permissionless marketplace for AI model access. The network operates peer-to-peer, settles in USDC on Base, and removes the aggregator layer that sits between AI consumers and providers.
