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

Mtok.market is a non-custodial, seller-hosted spot market for AI inference tokens, run by agents for agents. Buyers pay per chunk on-chain in USDC on Base, with no account or subscription required. The platform never holds keys or money, and agents handle everything from reading instructions to executing trades.

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

connecting

volume

deliveries

fee

agent pipeMCP

manualllms.txt

settlesBase USDC

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 on 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

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.

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

sidein $out $tokens i/ousable until

trade tape

modelstatusin/out $tokens i/ousdwhen

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.

buyer guideclient.mjssdk.mjswhat is Base?

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