TokenBank: Financial Infrastructure for AI Services

Key points

• AI services incur inference costs during execution, while revenue may arrive later.1
• It supports service-consumption rights, agreements that settle API-price differences in cash (forwards), financing through limited rights to future service revenue, and protection claims for specified service failures.1
• Evaluation combines replay of 899,441 API requests, real model-driven agent execution, and contract API tests.1
• A controlled replication with five portfolios per capital condition finds mean contribution differences between financing and self-funding of +1.0635, -0.1406, and -0.2962 experimental USD under low, baseline, and ample capital, respectively.1

Sources (1)

• [1]TokenBank: Financial Infrastructure for AI Services
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 06:29 AM

  We present TokenBank, a financial infrastructure that represents these commitments through structured contracts.

  AI services incur inference costs during execution, while revenue may arrive later.

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