It's an astute observation.
OpenRouter's latest round is the market's way of telling us that vendor lock-in at the inference layer will not fly for long.
Choose your model, choose provider, choose your hardware, choose your token. This is the path of AI compute.
king, i wouldnt normally shill anything on the timeline like this but an honest to god good product, the https://t.co/SihZMomipo by @0xgilbert with @squire_bot’s solana:EN2nnxrg8uUi6x2sJkzNPd2eT6rB9rdSoQNNaENA4RZA inference market is useful.
have seen Chris nonstop shipping since launching on @clawpumptech, have seen him integrate a new ai project a day into his inference market and for the sake of argument i’ll say that even clawump has migrated from @OpenRouter to UsePod because its simply 40-50% cheaper. with the volume of usage we recently got we were hitting our daily allowed openrouter limit too often and spending too much on compute.
squire fixed this.
@px_721 understands demand generation in crypto better than most.
@anajuliabit recently shipped our agentic swarm so primarily consumer of @reppo data is autonomous beings.
And that is exactly why we partnered with usepod.
While everyone tries to sell to humans, humans are outsourcing decision making and execution to their agents.
As you come up with a valuation framework, important to know who is the customer ⛽️
In our case, it’s been clear since inception
If you’re not following px what are you even doing. We’re in the early innings of the next onchain AI meta and he’s been telling us for weeks.
He sees the vision, he sees what’s possible. Tap in while everyone else on CT has tapped out.
market is massively underestimating embedded demand pipelines
retail demand is visible
embedded demand isn't
one successful integration can generate more recurring demand than thousands of individual users because the usage becomes embedded into a system rather than dependent on human behaviour
the biggest demand wont come from people opening chat windows
it will come from software consuming intelligence in the background
$SQUIRE is on a TEAR
Earlier this week we sat down with @0xgilbert to talk about $SQUIRE and https://t.co/bL8Ch5LqTa
During the interview he walked through his founder background including how he built his last project to an $800M valuation... He could've raised $10M off that track record alone but chose to ship @squire_bot in public with the community instead.
There's a reason founders keep coming on MCG. We're the only show giving STRONG builders a mic, airtime, and the distribution that comes with it.
When the founder is the real deal, big things tend to happen.
$SQUIRE is the receipt