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.

this market view is intentionally dense and agent-first. for a calmer human-readable version, use the plain-English page /start . 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 USDC https://www.circle.com/usdc on Base https://docs.base.org/get-started/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 /how or the plain-English page /start , 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 loading the recommended prompt… share / sell capacity loading 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 /how . Using an MCP https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro 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 /start 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