Getting Started

What is MOTE?

MOTE is the first AI agent registry for businesses. One $10 registration gives your business a permanent on-chain identity and broadcasts it to every major AI agent network on the internet.

AI agents are the new economic actors. They browse, evaluate, and transact on behalf of humans — 24/7, without anyone clicking anything. For an agent to find your business, book your services, or pay your endpoints, you need to be visible on the infrastructure they use.

MOTE handles all of it. You pay once. We create your Decentralised Identifier (DID) on the Sui blockchain, generate your machine-readable profile, and submit it to every major registry: x402, Claude MCP, Virtuals Protocol, OpenServ, LLM crawlers, and more.

How it works

Registration takes under two minutes. Here's what happens when you register:

Quickstart

The fastest way to register is through the web interface. No CLI required.

API registration

If you're integrating programmatically, use the MOTE API:

# Register a new merchant
curl -X POST https://mote-api-production.up.railway.app/v1/merchants \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Acme Coffee Co.",
    "category": "Food & Beverage",
    "description": "Specialty coffee roaster in Brooklyn",
    "endpoint": "https://acmecoffee.com/api"
  }'

# Response
{
  "id": "mote_abc123",
  "did": "did:pkh:sui:0x1a2b3c...",
  "status": "registered",
  "registries": ["x402", "virtuals", "claude-mcp", "openserv"],
  "created_at": "2026-03-26T..."
}

Decentralised Identity (DID)

A DID is a globally unique identifier anchored to a public blockchain. Unlike a Google Business listing or an Yelp profile, a DID cannot be suspended, removed, or controlled by any platform — including MOTE.

MOTE uses the did:pkh:sui method, which derives your identifier from your Sui wallet public key. This means your identity is cryptographically tied to a key you control.

DID Document

Your DID resolves to a DID Document — a JSON file describing your business, its service endpoints, and verification methods. This is what AI agents read when they discover your business.

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/did/v1",
  "id": "did:pkh:sui:0x1a2b3c...",
  "verificationMethod": [{
    "id": "did:pkh:sui:0x1a2b3c...#key-1",
    "type": "Ed25519VerificationKey2020",
    "publicKeyMultibase": "z..."
  }],
  "service": [{
    "id": "#mpp",
    "type": "MachinePaymentProtocol",
    "serviceEndpoint": "https://mote.network/m/abc123"
  }]
}

AI Agent Registries

MOTE submits your business to all major agent discovery networks automatically. Here's what each registry enables:

Registry	What it enables	Timeline
x402	HTTP-native machine payments. Agents can pay your endpoints directly via USDC with no account required.	Instant
Claude MCP	Your business appears as a tool in Claude's Model Context Protocol registry. Claude agents can call your services directly.	~48h
Virtuals Protocol	Listed in the Virtuals ACP agent commerce network. 21,000+ deployed agents can discover and transact with your business.	~48h
OpenServ	Listed in the OpenServ agent marketplace as a pay-per-use x402 endpoint.	~48h
robots.txt / llms.txt	Standard crawler directives updated so every LLM web crawler can read your business profile.	Instant
Sui On-chain	Permanent on-chain record. Any agent querying the Sui blockchain can verify your identity and reputation.	Instant

Machine Endpoints

A machine endpoint is a URL that AI agents can call to interact with your business programmatically. MOTE generates a standard endpoint for every registered business and hosts it at mote.network/m/{id}.

Your endpoint returns a machine-readable manifest describing your business, its capabilities, pricing, and payment methods. An agent querying your endpoint gets everything it needs to transact with you in a single HTTP call.

Endpoint manifest

GET https://mote.network/m/abc123

{
  "name": "Acme Coffee Co.",
  "did": "did:pkh:sui:0x1a2b3c...",
  "category": "Food & Beverage",
  "description": "Specialty coffee roaster in Brooklyn",
  "payment": {
    "protocol": "mpp-sui",
    "method": "@t2000/mpp-sui",
    "network": "base",
    "token": "USDC"
  },
  "reputation": {
    "jobs_completed": 42,
    "score": 97
  }
}

Reputation

Every fulfilled order via MOTE is recorded on-chain against your DID. This builds a tamper-proof, portable reputation score that travels with your business identity — across every platform and every agent network.

Unlike platform ratings (which disappear if you leave the platform), your MOTE reputation is anchored to your DID. It compounds over time and becomes increasingly valuable as more agents use reputation data to make booking decisions.

MPP Protocol

MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) is MOTE's standard for agent-to-business payments. It handles the full payment flow: challenge, verification, and on-chain settlement via USDC on Sui.

Payment flow

# Payment challenge
POST /v1/merchants/abc123/pay
→ 402 Payment Required
  X-Payment-Required: {
    "amount": "1.00",
    "token": "USDC",
    "network": "sui",
    "address": "0x..."
  }

x402 Payments

x402 is the open HTTP payment protocol developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. MOTE uses x402 to make your endpoints payable by any agent — without accounts, API keys, or subscriptions.

When an agent requests a resource from your x402-enabled endpoint, MOTE responds with a payment requirement. The agent pays in USDC, MOTE verifies on-chain, and the resource is delivered. Settlement in 2 seconds on Base at ~$0.0001 per transaction.

Property	Value
Settlement chain	Base (primary), Sui, Solana
Token	USDC (98.7% of volume)
Settlement time	~2 seconds
Cost per transaction	~$0.0001
Minimum payment	$0.001

llms.txt

llms.txt is the emerging standard for making websites readable by LLM crawlers — analogous to robots.txt for search engines. MOTE generates and hosts an llms.txt file for your business automatically.

This ensures that every major LLM web crawler — including those used by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — can index your business profile in a structured, machine-readable format.

# Your llms.txt (auto-generated by MOTE)
# Hosted at: mote.network/m/abc123/llms.txt

name: Acme Coffee Co.
category: Food & Beverage
description: Specialty coffee roaster in Brooklyn
did: did:pkh:sui:0x1a2b3c...
payment: mpp-sui
endpoint: https://mote.network/m/abc123

Claude MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic's standard for giving Claude agents access to external tools and services. MOTE registers your business as an MCP tool, making it callable by any Claude-powered agent.

Once registered, Claude agents can discover your business, query your capabilities, and initiate payments — all within a single agent workflow, without any human involvement.

API Reference

Base URL: https://mote-api-production.up.railway.app

Register a merchant

Get merchant

List merchants

Initiate payment

FAQ

More questions? Visit mote.network/faq or email us.

Glossary

Term	Definition
DID	Decentralised Identifier. A globally unique, blockchain-anchored identity that nobody controls.
MPP	Machine Payment Protocol. MOTE's standard for agent-to-business payments.
x402	HTTP 402-based payment protocol by Coinbase. Enables native web payments between machines.
MCP	Model Context Protocol. Anthropic's standard for giving Claude access to external tools.
ACP	Agent Commerce Protocol. Virtuals Protocol's four-phase onchain commerce model.
llms.txt	A machine-readable file that tells LLM crawlers how to index your business.
aGDP	Agentic GDP. The total economic value created by autonomous agents.
Sui	The Layer 1 blockchain MOTE uses for identity anchoring and settlement.
USDC	USD Coin. The primary stablecoin used for agent payments (98.7% of x402 volume).