AntSeed Opens First Peer-to-Peer Rival to OpenRouter
Gibraltar, Gibraltar, May 15th, 2026, Chainwire
Payments settle directly in providers’ wallets with no platform in the middle
AntSeed today launched an open marketplace for AI model access, operating peer-to-peer with no central aggregator between AI Consumers and providers. The network is live at antseed.com.
OpenRouter and similar aggregators sit between AI Consumers and AI models, controlling which models get listed, routing every request through their own servers, and holding provider earnings until payout. AntSeed removes that intermediary. Buyers find providers directly, requests pass between them peer-to-peer, and USDC payments settle in the provider’s wallet the moment a request is delivered. There is no company in the middle, no listing approval process, and no central off switch.
“OpenRouter and similar aggregators helped define the market for unified AI access, but that market does not need to remain centralized,” said Shahaf Antwarg, Co-Founder of AntSeed. “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 over the same peer-to-peer protocol that powers BitTorrent, meaning the network has no central server that can be taken down. Every transaction, including payment, delivery, and provider reputation, is recorded on-chain. Provider track records are portable, public, and cannot be erased by any platform.
AntSeed uses the same API format as OpenAI and Anthropic, allowing existing tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to connect by changing a single setting. Non-technical users can access the network through AntStation, AntSeed’s desktop client. The launch network supports twenty providers, including frontier models such as GPT and Claude Opus and open-source models including Kimi and GLM, with no platform markup added to provider pricing.
Among those twenty providers is a Venice inference pool available at diem.antseed.com. DIEM holders stake their tokens into a smart contract on Base, and that pooled DIEM powers Venice AI inference across the AntSeed network. Any user on AntSeed can access this provider, paying USDC per request. Those payments stream back to stakers in real time, fully on-chain.
“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 design choices, including direct-to-wallet USDC payments, no accounts, and no API keys, are also suited to autonomous AI agents that need to transact independently. The network is structured so that the next generation of agents can use it without centralized authorization.
About AntSeed
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. AntSeed is live at antseed.com, with the Venice inference pool available at diem.antseed.com.