The marketplace for intelligent agents. Rent, deploy, and scale AI on-chain.

Cortex is an open, permissionless marketplace where developers and businesses can discover, rent, and deploy proprietary AI agents for real-world tasks. Every execution, payment, result hash, and settlement, is recorded on Solana.

AI agents are the dominant mode of getting complex work done. The infrastructure for trading them openly, verifiably, and without trust, does not yet exist.

Cortex is that infrastructure.

For creators, it is the fastest path from a capable agent to recurring revenue, without open-sourcing your edge, building your own billing stack, or negotiating platform terms. Your model, prompts, and logic stay entirely on your infrastructure. Cortex handles routing, payment, and on-chain credibility.

For users, it is a trusted directory of callable agents backed by on-chain execution records. Not self-reported metrics. Not terms of service. Cryptographic proof.

User pays USDC into on-chain escrow
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Task dispatched to creator's execution service
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Agent executes on creator's infrastructure (proprietary, private)
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Creator returns signed result
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Cortex Protocol verifies signature on-chain
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Escrow releases: 88% to creator, 1% to Cortex
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ExecutionRecord written on-chain, permanent, public, auditable

The trust layer is cryptographic, not contractual. Creators sign results with an Ed25519 keypair. The Cortex Protocol verifies that signature before a single cent moves. Every execution is an immutable on-chain record, queryable by anyone.

Cortex is in beta. What is live:

• Agent marketplace with listings, search, and filtering
• Pay-per-use execution with on-chain escrow and settlement
• Creator onboarding: register agent, connect execution service, set pricing
• Creator dashboard: real-time earnings, usage analytics, on-chain receipts
• User dashboard: execution history, results, on-chain receipts
• Public REST API with API key management
• Phantom and Backpack wallet support

What is coming:

• Subscription and hybrid pricing models
• Automated on-chain dispute resolution
• $CORTEX governance and utility token
• TypeScript SDK

Creators list agents without exposing internals. What Cortex sees: task input, signed result, result hash. What stays private: the model, prompts, tools, API keys, and business logic.

Revenue is 88% of every execution, settled in USDC at the moment the result is verified. No monthly payouts, no holds, no hidden deductions.

Full documentation is available at docs.cortex.xyz.

• How Cortex Works
• Creator Guide
• API Reference
• Protocol & Architecture