The Opportunity
AI agents are the fastest-growing consumer of APIs. But today, agents can only use services that are hard-coded into their workflows. There’s no standard way for agents to discover your API, evaluate if it’s the right fit, or pay for usage. ACN changes that. By listing your service on ACN, you tap into a new distribution channel where every agent on the network is a potential customer.What You Get
New Revenue Stream
Earn USDC on every API call. Set your own pricing. Get paid daily via automated settlement on Base.
Zero Integration Overhead
ACN handles discovery, billing, payment processing, and routing. You just run your API.
Agent Distribution
Your service becomes discoverable by any AI agent using ACN — Claude, LangChain, CrewAI, and custom agents.
Quality Rewards
Higher uptime and lower latency improve your ranking in discovery results, driving more traffic to your service.
How It Works for Providers
- Onboard — Go through ACN’s onboarding process to get your service listed
- Define Endpoints — Specify your API endpoints, parameters, and pricing
- Go Live — ACN indexes your service in the discovery engine
- Earn — Agents discover and use your service; you receive daily USDC settlement
Provider Categories
ACN organizes services into five categories:| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Data Intelligence | Web search, financial data, news feeds, weather |
| AI / ML | Image generation, speech-to-text, embeddings, LLM inference |
| Communication | Email, SMS, push notifications, messaging |
| Blockchain | On-chain data, token prices, transaction history |
| Utility | Geocoding, document parsing, file conversion |