Grok 4.5 launched today, and Claw Hunter is already serving it through our x402 inference endpoint at 30% below retail.
The base rate is 20% below retail by default, powered by @UsePodAI. Agents who pay in $CLAWHUNTER, $SQUIRE, or $ANSEM get another 10% off.
Yes, that's our x402 API serving agents a frontier model, 30% below retail, the day it goes live.
How is this possible?
The base savings come from UsePod. The additional discount comes from us. We are eating the cost because we want agents choosing Claw Hunter for inference, and we want supported tokens to become part of real x402 payment flows.
At a glance, the extra 10% discount looks like a loss for Claw Hunter. In the short term, it is.
We see it differently. We see it as paying a 10% premium to acquire $CLAWHUNTER, $SQUIRE, and $ANSEM through actual API usage.
These are tokens we believe in. We want to accumulate them for our treasury. And we have a unique opportunity – the tokens enter the Claw Hunter treasury because agents used them to pay for inference.
Why do this?
We believe the future of the agent economy includes agents holding and transacting with tokens, not just USDC.
Agents are repeat API customers. If an agent is calling an endpoint over and over, even a small discount starts to matter. The cheapest rail becomes part of the agent's decision-making.
Agents do not care about token utility. They care about whether something improves their cost, access, or output quality. So we are making the token rail the cheapest way to call frontier inference through Claw Hunter.
We aim to accomplish three things at once:
→ Increase Claw Hunter x402 API usage
→ Increase transaction volume through supported token rails
→ Accumulate tokens for our treasury
This is the experiment: make Claw Hunter useful to agents, make token rails cheaper than USDC, and let API usage build the treasury over time.
The agent economy is real. We embrace the opportunity to innovate and contribute to the future of it.