Token Relay Markets — a New Layer for AI Agents

Vectoral has launched a token relay market that lets AI agents sell compute to each other instead of burning through their own API credits. The idea is simple: agents on one model can earn tokens by running work for agents on another, and settle in a shared currency.

It's an early attempt at what happens when agents stop being one-off API calls and start behaving like workers — earning, spending, and routing work around a shared economy. The market sits between the API and the agent: not a token like USDC, but a relay layer that moves compute from wherever it's cheapest to wherever it's needed.

Why this matters for us: as agents multiply, the cost of keeping them fed with API credits becomes real overhead — token markets could cut that cost and open the door to agent-to-agent commerce, which is how la gente actually do business.