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title: "Surplus Intelligence reports record 312.6 billion daily tokens as rivals question paid demand"
date: "2026-10-21T01:13:01.000Z"
updated: "2026-10-21T01:13:47.582Z"
tags:
  - "infra"
  - "defi"
  - "agents"
source: "https://www.bankless.com/read/news/onchain-inference-markets-post-record-token-usage"
summary: "Surplus's dashboard shows daily inference volume up about 2.3 times in under a month, while AntSeed's Amos Meiri argues token counts say little about how much anyone actually pays."
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# Surplus Intelligence reports record 312.6 billion daily tokens as rivals question paid demand

*Surplus's dashboard shows daily inference volume up about 2.3 times in under a month, while AntSeed's Amos Meiri argues token counts say little about how much anyone actually pays.*

Surplus Intelligence, an onchain AI inference market on Base, reported a record 312.6 billion tokens processed in a single day on October 18, 2026, up from 133.6 billion on September 23, 2026, according to its dashboard. That is about 2.3 times growth in under a month.

The figures come as token volumes climb across inference markets and a competitor asks for dollar figures instead. Amos Meiri, co-founder of the inference marketplace AntSeed, wrote that token counts "say almost nothing" and that "at minimum, we should ask for transparent USD spend." Surplus's dashboard reports user savings rather than spend.

Meiri cited Venice as the kind of disclosure he means: 500 billion tokens a day and $150 million in annual recurring revenue. AntSeed's own onchain figures are smaller: it has settled about $310,000 on Base since launch and kept roughly $12,000 in fees, according to Bankless.

Analyst @0xJeff posted that Dolphin, whose token is DLPHN, reached 32.2 billion daily tokens one week after its API went live, up from about 14 billion tokens a day he cited three days earlier.

Inference has become one of the largest uses of x402 payments, [Bankless reported](https://www.bankless.com/read/news/onchain-inference-markets-post-record-token-usage) on October 20, 2026. Onchain markets offer discounted model access and settle payments from a crypto wallet rather than an account tied to an email, card or identity check.

Surplus's site says developers using it have cut inference costs by 81%, and that each call routes to the healthiest offer at the user's minimum discount. AntSeed describes itself as a peer-to-peer marketplace where requests go directly to providers and payments settle in USDC on Base.


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