BASED AI: AI INFERENCE GATEWAY ON HYPERLIQUID

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Based AI has launched as the first commoditized AI inference gateway on Hyperliquid, using the x402 protocol to enable instant, gasless per-request settlement – replacing subscription and credit models with pure pay-as-you-go compute. Users fund a self-custodial wallet with USDC or USDH, then route calls to any supported model through a single integration point, with balances debited atomically per inference request. A Privacy Cloud tier runs open-weight models on self-hosted GPU infrastructure with no data storage, logging, or caching. The architecture is purpose-built for agentic commerce, enabling AI agents to autonomously purchase inference capacity onchain.