Antseed Unveils 20-Provider AI Marketplace as USDC Payments Bypass Aggregators

Decentralized Shift in AI Access

Antseed, on May 15, launched a decentralized marketplace that connects artificial intelligence (AI) consumers directly with model providers, removing the centralized intermediaries that dominate today’s AI access ecosystem.

The platform offers an alternative to AI aggregators such as Openrouter, which list models, route all traffic through their own servers, and hold provider earnings until payout. AntSeed instead allows buyers to discover providers directly, send requests peer‑to‑peer, and settle payments instantly in USDC to a provider’s wallet.

According to a media statement, the network requires no accounts, no API keys, and has no approval process or central point of control.

“OpenRouter and similar aggregators helped define the market for unified AI access, but that market does not need to remain centralized,” said Shahaf Antwarg, Antseed’s co‑founder. “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 uses the same peer‑to‑peer protocol that powers Bittorrent, eliminating reliance on a central server. All transactions are recorded on‑chain, making track records public, portable, and tamper‑resistant.

The network supports the same API format used by OpenAI and Anthropic, enabling tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to connect by changing a single setting. Non‑technical users can access the marketplace through Antseed’s desktop client Antstation.

At launch, Antseed includes 20 providers offering frontier models such as GPT and Claude Opus, as well as open‑source systems including Kimi and GLM. The company says it adds no platform markup to provider pricing.

Among the initial providers is a Venice inference pool hosted at diem.antseed.com. DIEM holders can stake tokens into a smart contract on Base, with the pooled DIEM powering Venice AI inference across the network. Users pay in USDC per request, and payments stream back to stakers in real time.

“DIEM was designed to make AI access something users can truly own, not rent,” said Erik Voorhees, founder of Venice.ai. “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 is designed to support autonomous AI agents that need to transact independently. The company says the network is structured so that next‑generation agents can operate without centralized authorization.