I hear "no middlemen" and immediately wonder who's quietly playing that role anyway. Someone always processes the payment, even when the pitch says otherwise.
OpenGradient settles AI inference calls directly through smart contracts. A user requests an inference, pays in OPG, and the contract handles settlement without a payment processor or centralized billing layer in between. That's a genuine structural difference from API-based AI services, where a company invoices you monthly and owns the entire payment rail.
What I'd want to see is gas cost under real demand. Direct on-chain settlement removes one middleman, but if network fees spike when usage climbs, you've just swapped one cost layer for another.
Cutting the middleman is real. The fee structure replacing it still deserves scrutiny.
#opg $OPG @OpenGradient
OpenGradient settles AI inference calls directly through smart contracts. A user requests an inference, pays in OPG, and the contract handles settlement without a payment processor or centralized billing layer in between. That's a genuine structural difference from API-based AI services, where a company invoices you monthly and owns the entire payment rail.
What I'd want to see is gas cost under real demand. Direct on-chain settlement removes one middleman, but if network fees spike when usage climbs, you've just swapped one cost layer for another.
Cutting the middleman is real. The fee structure replacing it still deserves scrutiny.
#opg $OPG @OpenGradient