**[Spark Leads $2.4M Investment: Antseed Aims to Build an AI Inference Version of BitTorrent]** BlockBeats News, October 6 – The P2P AI inference network Antseed has been officially launched, along with the announcement that the nonprofit foundation Antseed Foundation has completed a $2.4 million token round of financing. Spark Capital led the round, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai. Antseed aims to bring BitTorrent's peer-to-peer model to AI inference, enabling different providers to directly sell models and agent services. After users run Antseed's local router on their computers, they can connect tools like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to a single address. Each request is routed by the local router based on price, speed, reputation, and privacy conditions, with fees settled directly in USDC on Base. Providers can run their own local models, fine-tuned models, or other AI services and set their own pricing. The key difference between Antseed and OpenRouter is that there is no centralized platform handling the forwarding. Buyers connect directly with providers, while Antseed handles discovery, routing, reputation, and payment protocols. Ordinary providers can still view the prompts they process, but users also have the option to choose providers verified by TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), ensuring requests are processed in a hardware-isolated environment. Antseed is also working on improving mechanisms like model fingerprinting, signed responses, and audits to prevent providers from misrepresenting cheaper models as more expensive ones. The code has already been open-sourced, and the network is operational, though there are still compatibility issues with tools like Codex and Claude Desktop being addressed on GitHub. Antseed is closer to a rapidly iterating "decentralized OpenRouter." [Original Link]