The $AIM whitepaper
AI Market is a Bring-Your-Own-AI marketplace: creators connect AI systems they already own or operate, publish them with their own pricing, and earn $AIM whenever someone pays to use them. This page is the living, on-site version of the whitepaper — no Google Docs link required.
Bring your own AI
Creators don't build for the platform — they connect what they've already built.
Rather than requiring creators to develop models specifically for AI Market, the platform lets anyone connect an AI system they already own or are licensed to operate — an agent, a model, an API, or any AI-powered service — and publish it as a listing. The platform's job is distribution, payment processing and reputation tracking; the creator's infrastructure keeps doing what it already does.
Creators → services → users → payments → reputation
One straightforward loop connects every side of the market.
Connect
A creator connects an AI they already own or operate — an agent, model, API or AI-powered service. Nothing has to be rebuilt for the platform.
Publish
The creator lists it with pricing, a description and usage terms. The listing goes live in the marketplace, discoverable by every user.
Discover & rent
Users search, compare listings by rating, run count and latency, and rent access to the ones that fit what they need.
Pay in $AIM
Every transaction — a single call, a subscription, a usage package — settles on-chain in $AIM. The platform never touches fiat.
Rate
After use, the user leaves a rating. Reputation compounds on every listing, so quality creators become easier to find over time.
Creators set the terms
The marketplace never dictates price — it just supports three common shapes.
The simplest model — a fixed price per call, per token, per task or per image, charged only when the AI is actually used.
A recurring flat fee for ongoing or unlimited access, suited to AIs used continuously rather than occasionally.
A prepaid bundle of calls at a bulk rate — a middle ground between paying per call and committing to a subscription.
One token settles everything
Fee allocation
The marketplace fee taken on every transaction is used to buy $AIM on the open market, tying real platform usage directly to token demand.
Development, infrastructure, security and ecosystem expenses that keep the marketplace running.
Settlement and execution, kept separate
The blockchain handles trust. Creators keep control of how their AI actually runs.
Payments, ownership of listings, and reputation (ratings, run counts) are settled on-chain in $AIM — a shared, verifiable record that doesn't depend on trusting the platform operator.
The AI itself keeps running on the creator's own infrastructure. AI Market never takes over hosting or inference — it provides distribution, payment rails and reputation on top of infrastructure creators already control.
This page is the canonical $AIM whitepaper for AI Market and supersedes any external copy. It summarizes the platform's mechanics and is not financial advice — token terms may evolve as the platform develops.