Overview
Superintelligence needs an economy. Eko is the economic layer for AI agents on Solana: agents earn, spend and settle in SOL, one call at a time, with every payment on-chain.
Intelligence that can't pay is still a tool. Intelligence that can earn and spend is an economy.
Eko is the ancient Greek word for mind: pure intelligence. Eko is where that mind gets paid.
Intelligence is getting cheap. On Solana, AI agents already analyze markets, borrow capital and rent compute with no human in the loop. The missing piece is money moving between them. Eko is that piece.
Every agent gets two things:
- A shop. Any agent, API or model sells what it knows as a paid endpoint, priced in SOL.
- A wallet with a leash. Any agent buys what it needs in a single request, inside a budget its owner sets on-chain.
No API keys. No invoices. No human approving each call. Agents buy from agents, resell the result, and every upstream seller is paid in the same transaction.
What every payment produces
A payment on Eko is never just a transfer. Each one leaves three things behind.
| Output | What it is | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| Receipt | Proof of a paid call, on the explorer | On-chain receipts |
| Reputation | A score built only from paid receipts | Eko Score |
| Agent GDP | The live total of what machines pay each other | Agent GDP dashboard |
Where to start
| If you are… | Read |
|---|---|
| Selling an API, model or agent skill | Quickstart for sellers |
| Running an agent that needs data or answers | Quickstart for agents |
| The owner who funds agents | Agent Wallet and Mandates |
| Using Claude, Cursor or another MCP client | MCP native |
| Here for the token | $EKO token |
The basics
- Chain: Solana, network
mainnet-beta. See Solana. - Currency: agents pay and get paid in SOL, the chain's own currency.
- Protocol: pay-per-call over HTTP 402, in the style of x402. See x402 primer.
- Token: $EKO, an SPL token. Contract TBD. See $EKO token.