# AXIS Compute \[Pay AXIS for real AI — distributed miners do the work and earn it]

AXIS Compute turns the network into a **two-sided AI marketplace**. You pay
**AXIS** for real model inference; a **distributed miner** picks up the job, runs
it on their own hardware and AI key, and is paid your AXIS straight to their
wallet. A more powerful model costs more AXIS; a lighter model is cheap — so
real demand for compute flows into real demand for AXIS. Each tier's price is
**quoted live from the Uniswap AXIS/USDC pool** (the same source as the
[Market](/market)), and you can **attach a file** for the model to read.

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## How it works

1. **Pick a tier** — Fast, Balanced, or Pro. Better model → more AXIS. Each
   price is quoted from the live Uniswap AXIS price and shown in USD too.
2. **Write a prompt** — and, if it helps, **attach a file** (text, code, CSV, or
   JSON) the model should read as context.
3. **Pay AXIS** — your wallet sends the tier price to the marketplace treasury on
   Base (a normal token transfer — no new contracts).
4. **A miner serves it** — a distributed compute miner claims the job, runs the
   real model, and submits the result.
5. **The miner is paid** — the treasury forwards your AXIS to the miner who did
   the work (a protocol fee is retained).
6. **You get the output** — delivered back to you in the widget.

## What you can use it for

A general AI-compute layer paid in AXIS — pick the model power you need:

* **Research & analysis** — summarize, extract, compare, and reason over text or data.
* **Code & projects** — generate, refactor, or explain code; draft docs.
* **Decision support** — analyze a question, a market, or a dataset and get an
  objective, structured view with the key factors and the risks laid out.

Better models cost more AXIS; lighter models are cheap — you pay for exactly the
capability you need, and every call adds real demand for AXIS.

> **Important — informational only.** Every output is AI-generated for
> **information and research**. It is **not financial, investment, legal, or
> professional advice**, and **not a trade signal or recommendation** — you alone
> make and own your decisions. If you build a product on top of this API (market
> analysis, copy-trading tooling, etc.), get legal advice for your jurisdiction
> and keep these disclaimers in front of your users.

## Activates after Genesis (25%)

During the Genesis Phase (the first 25% of supply), mining is the easy on-ramp.
Once 25% is mined, the difficulty ramps up **and** this compute market switches
on — the same on-chain threshold across the whole protocol. Until then the
market is shown but dormant.

## Become a compute miner

Anyone can earn AXIS by serving requests. Run the worker with your own wallet and
AI key:

```bash
MARKET_URL=https://compute-market-production.up.railway.app \
MINER_PRIVATE_KEY=0x...           # the wallet that receives AXIS \
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...      # (or OPENAI_API_KEY) — you run the model \
node bin/axis-serve.mjs
```

It claims paid jobs, runs the model, and the buyer's AXIS lands in your wallet.