Dubai, UAE, 1st September, 2025. OpenxAI, the world’s first permissionless, peer-to-peer AI network, today announced its launch on Base, unlocking a new era where anyone, anywhere, can launch and monetize their own AI business in under five minutes.
Launching an AI company today is like launching an internet company in the 90s. It is expensive, requires a highly skilled team, and demands significant capital for data acquisition and model training. Founders often spend months setting up a company, opening bank accounts, and integrating payment systems, all before writing a single line of code or serving a single customer. In the meantime, they are paying steep fees to centralized cloud providers and navigating endless legal and compliance barriers. For billions, this opportunity simply doesn’t exist because AI is trapped in 20th-century rails.
OpenxAI changes this. Today, OpenxAI introduces the world’s first permissionless, peer-to-peer AI network built on Base – the fast, low-cost Ethereum Layer 2. By combining decentralized GPU infrastructure with Web3 smart contracts, OpenxAI makes it possible for anyone, anywhere, to launch a live, easy-to-monetize AI service in under five minutes. Built by veterans from Fantom, Solana, ICP, AWS, Binance, and Near – and bootstrapped without external funding – OpenxAI replaces corporate approval processes and platform lock-ins with open, borderless access.
How the OpenxAI Network operates
OpenxAI replaces corporate cloud providers with Xnode and XnodeOS:
- Xnode → A global network of independent, high-performance GPU machines run by people and organizations everywhere.
- XnodeOS → The software layer that connects these machines, automatically allocating compute, balancing workloads, and keeping AI services running reliably at scale.
Here’s how it works in practice:
- A creator deploys an AI model or agent.
- It’s packaged into a smart contract that locks in usage rules, pricing, and payments.
- The service is broadcast to the network, where any user can use it and pay in crypto.
In essence, a peer-to-peer exchange of AI services – as open and unstoppable as Bitcoin.
The choice of Base as the foundation for OpenxAI was deliberate.
Ashton Hettiarachi, Founder of OpenxAI, commented:
“Base is more than infra. It’s the monetization and distribution layer for AI. Together, we’re empowering any builder, regardless of their cultural background and technical proficiency, to launch and monetize their AI application in minutes.”
Base offers ETH-level security with much lower gas fees, giving builders access to a low-cost pipeline for monetization. With a massive audience of 7M+ monthly active users ready to try AI and a native app store organically supporting the discovery of newly launched applications, it provides a platform for many new entrepreneurs to find their first audience.
By building on Base, OpenxAI ensures not just secure deployment but also global reach and sustainable monetization for the next generation of AI applications. Builders can deploy an AI app globally in minutes, connect it directly to a wallet, and set onchain subscriptions or usage fees without middlemen. This model gives developers and creators complete ownership over their apps, enabling instant global payments and token-gated access that safeguards both intellectual property and user data.
Integration with Base allows OpenxAI users to build, own, and monetize AI services without a middleman.
- Instead of renting servers from AWS, you tap into a decentralized compute network.
- Instead of paying huge infra bills, it costs up to 80% less.
- Instead of opening a bank account, you just use your wallet.
- Instead of worrying about your IP or data privacy, it is cryptographically wrapped compute and storage.
- Instead of creating a company to own and monetize, you issue an NFT that does it for you.
- Instead of charging credit cards, you get onchain subscriptions, usage fees, and micropayments.
The shift in the paradigm does not come just with cheaper infrastructure (though it is 80% cheaper than AWS or Google Cloud). It also introduces a new business model. With OpenxAI, creators simply upload their model or choose one from the network’s library, set their pricing and usage terms via a smart contract, and click deploy. The service becomes instantly available to anyone with an internet connection and a wallet. Payments flow directly in crypto from users to creators, removing geographic restrictions, middlemen, and corporate fees entirely.
This borderless launch model means small teams, independent developers, and communities in regions historically excluded from the AI boom can now compete head-to-head with major corporations – offering services at lower costs, retaining full ownership, and keeping revenue in their own hands.
As AI races toward a multi-trillion-dollar market, the winners will be those who own the infrastructure, the models, and the revenue streams. OpenxAI’s permissionless network turns AI from a rented service into a global, tradeable asset class, putting power back in the hands of creators.
About OpenxAI
OpenxAI is the first permissionless AI network that lets anyone deploy, monetize, and govern AI models without gatekeepers, approvals, or platform lock-in’s. Built for creators, developers, and entrepreneurs who are tired of asking for access, OpenxAI gives you the tools, compute, and ownership to launch and scale on your terms. Instantly, globally, and without limits.
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