Axiom by Elevated AI

The routing layer for AI spending. Axiom is a non-custodial routing layer for autonomous AI agents. It helps agents discover and purchase paid machine services and route crypto transactions based on total cost, reliability, safety, and execution quality.

Two capabilities, one product:

	what it does	status
Axiom Services	Finds, ranks and buys x402-paid APIs. The buyer's signed authorization is relayed to the seller.	Live on Base mainnet
Axiom Crypto	Compares swap routes on total cost, validates the calldata, and returns transactions for the agent to sign.	Beta on Base mainnet

Axiom never holds customer funds, never signs a customer transaction, and stores no customer key. In both capabilities the agent or user is the signer.

Canonical site: https://axiom.elevatedai.io · API origin: axiom-relay.reference-seller.workers.dev

These are deliberately separate. The canonical site mirrors every machine contract over GET and serves no execution route, so documents reference it while requests execute against the runtime.

Built by Elevated AI.

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Why this exists

Most x402 tooling assumes the agent already knows the provider's URL. In practice it doesn't — and roughly 13% of advertised x402 providers do not answer a valid challenge when actually called (measured across the live Coinbase Bazaar catalogue). Axiom absorbs that problem.

intent -> discover candidates -> validate -> rank -> pay -> return result

Pricing

Fee	3% of the seller price
Maximum	$0.50 per purchase
Minimum	none
Micropayments	fee waived when too small to settle, while free capacity remains

The fee is a percentage below ~$16.67 and flat above it, so a $25 purchase and a $250 purchase both cost $0.50.

Non-custodial by construction

The buyer signs two independent authorisations: one payable directly to the seller, one payable to Axiom. Axiom relays the seller's authorisation without modification and cannot alter its amount or destination.

• Seller funds never enter an Axiom-controlled address.
• Axiom holds no signing key at all — it cannot move your money.
• Exactly one routing fee per completed purchase, charged only on success.
• Fallback advances only on positive evidence the previous seller was not paid; an ambiguous settlement halts the chain rather than risk a double payment.

Quickstart

npm install axiom-relay

import { Axiom } from 'axiom-relay';
import { x402Client } from '@x402/core/client';
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from '@x402/evm/exact/client';
import { privateKeyToAccount } from 'viem/accounts';

const signer = new x402Client();
registerExactEvmScheme(signer, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.KEY) });

const axiom = new Axiom({ baseUrl: 'https://axiom-relay.reference-seller.workers.dev' });

const { route, result } = await axiom.buy(signer, 'crypto price', {
  network: 'eip155:8453',
});

console.log(route.selectionReason);
console.log(result.downstream.body);

Or with plain HTTP:

curl -sX POST https://axiom-relay.reference-seller.workers.dev/v1/route \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"capability":"crypto price","requirements":{"network":"eip155:8453"}}'

How routing decides

Deterministic, no learning, no hidden preference:

score = (50*reliability + 30*price + 10*latency + 10*freshness) / 100

Reliability leads on purpose — a cheap provider that fails costs the agent a round trip and earns Axiom nothing. When the winner is not the cheapest, the response says so and names the price premium and the reliability figures that outweighed it. Ties break on provider id, so ordering is stable.

Machine integration

Surface	Path
Service descriptor	/.well-known/x402
OpenAPI 3.1	/openapi.json
Agent skill	/SKILL.md
LLM navigation	/llms.txt
A2A Agent Card	/.well-known/agent-card.json
MCP manifest	/.well-known/mcp.json
Health	/health

MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "axiom": { "type": "http", "url": "https://axiom-relay.reference-seller.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Tools: find_paid_resource, quote_paid_resource, purchase_paid_resource, check_provider. The MCP layer is a thin adapter over the HTTP API — it contains no payment logic, so the safety properties are identical.

Examples

See examples/: raw TypeScript, MCP, OpenAI tools, Claude Agent Skills, LangChain, Cloudflare Agents, and a generic x402 client.

Two behaviours worth knowing

Waived fee. When feePolicy is fee_waived_micropayment, axiomFee is 0 and payTo is null. Do not sign a fee leg — there is nothing to authorise.

Free-route quota. free_route_quota_exhausted (HTTP 429) means the purchase is valid and the provider healthy, but Axiom's free-routing allocation is spent. The response carries resetsAt. Purchases whose fee is collectible are never quota-limited.

Security model

• x402 v2, exact scheme, USDC on Base.
• Destination URLs are validated against SSRF: loopback, RFC1918, link-local, cloud metadata, IPv4-mapped and NAT64 embeddings, embedded credentials and non-web ports are refused, and every redirect hop is revalidated independently.
• Replay protection claims each EIP-3009 authorisation nonce atomically.
• A discovered provider is an untrusted claim: schema-checked, SSRF-validated and probed for a live challenge before it can be selected.

Status

Live on Base mainnet with real settlements. Base Sepolia also supported for testing. Current state is always readable at /health.

Licence

MIT

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Axiom Crypto (Beta)

Describe a swap. Axiom queries execution providers, normalises every fee and gas cost, ranks routes on what you would actually receive, validates the calldata against what you asked for, and hands back transactions your wallet signs.

Axiom never takes custody and never signs.

What it supports today

Network	Base mainnet
Assets	USDC, WETH, ETH, USDT
Execution provider	LI.FI
Axiom fee	15 bps (0.15%)
Max trade (beta)	$500
Daily volume (beta)	$5,000
Rate limit	30 routes/min

The beta ceilings are risk limits while the routing model is validated against live markets, not product limits.

Fees are disclosed separately, always

Execution providers often report one aggregate fee line. LI.FI's is 25 bps of its own plus Axiom's 15. Axiom splits them and attributes each to its recipient, because presenting a provider's fee as Axiom revenue would misstate both what you pay Axiom and what Axiom earns:

"costDisclosure": {
  "providerFee":  { "amount": "5000", "token": "USDC", "bps": 25 },
  "axiomFee":     { "amount": "3000", "token": "USDC", "bps": 15 },
  "networkGas":   { "amount": "...",  "token": "ETH" },
  "slippage":     { "toleranceBps": 50, "guaranteedOutput": "...", "worstCaseBps": 50 },
  "priceImpactBps": null,
  "expectedOutput":   { "amount": "...", "token": "WETH" },
  "netAfterAllCosts": { "amount": "...", "token": "WETH" },
  "totalEffectiveCostBps": 87,
  "note": "providerFee is charged by the execution provider and is not Axiom revenue."
}

priceImpactBps is null rather than 0 when a provider does not report it. An unreported impact is unknown, not absent.

Quote a route

curl -sX POST https://axiom-relay.reference-seller.workers.dev/v1/crypto/quote \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "fromChain": 8453,
    "sellToken": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "buyToken":  "0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000006",
    "sellAmount": "2000000",
    "taker": "<your wallet>",
    "slippageBps": 100
  }'

You get back selected, costDisclosure, selectionReason, savingsVsRunnerUp, alternatives, and transactions — an exact-amount approval followed by the swap. Sign them in order from the taker wallet.

Analyse without receiving calldata

POST /v1/crypto/analyze answers the same question and deliberately withholds the means to act: identical economics, transactions: null, plus a recommendation. Useful when an agent wants the cost of a trade without being handed the ability to make it.

What Axiom will refuse

Route validation checks the provider's answer against what was asked, not against what the provider claims it did:

• calldata built for a different chain
• a sell amount that is not the one quoted
• native value attached to an ERC-20 sale
• an approval whose spender is not the route's allowance target
• unlimited approvals — exact-amount only, unless an operator opts in
• a floor implying wider slippage than you specified
• a stale quote
• a token that is not allowlisted
• a route whose simulation fails

Signing model

intent → quote → inspect route → sign transaction → submit

Axiom performs the first three. Your wallet performs the last two. There is no execution endpoint, because execution is signing, and Axiom cannot sign.