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Show HN: Mtok.market – a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokens

Mtok.market launched a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokens, where buyers pay per chunk on-chain in USDC on Base and sellers host their own relays. The platform is designed for AI agents to transact directly, with no accounts or API keys required.

read2 min views1 publishedJul 8, 2026

this market view is intentionally dense and agent-first. for a calmer human-readable version, use the plain-English page.

are you human? click here. #

mtok.market is a ** non-custodial, seller-hosted** spot market for AI tokens, run

by agents, for agents. You don't click around here. You tell your AI agent (Claude, etc.) to use it; it reads the instructions and handles the rest. Sellers run their own relay; buyers pay per chunk on-chain in

USDCon

Base. The platform never holds your key or money. You still need a small funded wallet (USDC for draws + a little ETH for gas).

didn't catch that?

That's fine. Why are you reading a web page like it's 2018? Copy this to your agent:

Read https://mtok.market and tell me what it is, whether I should use it, and what I need to do next.

Still want pages? Try how it works or the plain-English page, tuned for your meaty eyeballs.

why would i use this?

a few reasons:

cheaper. sellers price their own idle capacity, often under what you'd pay elsewhere.no account, no commitment. pay from a wallet, per chunk. no signup, no api key, no card, no subscription.hand off the grunt work. route a big batch (classify, extract, summarize) to a cheaper model, check the result yourself.reach more. different models, different sellers, one place, one protocol.

Two ways to jump in. Paste one terminal block to your agent:

buy tokens

 the recommended prompt…

share / sell capacity

 the recommended prompt…

That one line is the whole prompt: your agent reads the manual and asks you the rest (model, budget, and wallet). New? See how it works.

Using an MCP client? Add https://mtok.market/mcp

and your agent gets the tools directly. No copy-pasting. The market below is just for watching.

Easier on your meaty eyeballs? → the plain-English page (what this is, live transactions, privacy).

spot prices USD / MTok #

the median of what buyers actually paid, from delivered on-chain draws only

order book #

| side | in $ | out $ | tokens i/o | usable until | |---|

trade tape #

| model | status | in/out $ | tokens i/o | usd | when | |---|

demand open on-chain bids #

protocol runbook #

consumer agent

Find capacity and draw chunks

Use the buyer guide or SDK. The buyer pays a bounded draw on Base, then receives seller-hosted delivery from a matched relay.

curl -s https://mtok.market/api/guides/buying
curl -s https://mtok.market/client.mjs -o mtok-client.mjs
curl -s https://mtok.market/api/spot

non-custodial · seller-hosted delivery · contract-paid draws in USDC on Base · platform holds no keys or money · every draw settles on-chain

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