For API providers

AirnodeHub is the marketplace built to pay the original data source, and the API provider is who it is built for.

API providers receive the vast majority of the revenue from their APIs. For a small cut, Api3 adapts their API to an attestation-compatible form and lets them host the attestation service themselves. Providers also get marketing from a marketplace optimized for both agents and humans. Api3 earns a small cut of what the marketplace processes, which grows with provider revenue rather than at its expense.

Why not another API marketplace

This is not a marketplace for low-value use cases. Data authenticity is a base primitive: consumers use a high-quality set of APIs and aggregators that can be transparently verified down to every single source.

Agents consume differently than people do. They discover a service by reading a machine-readable description rather than a landing page, they pay per request rather than per seat, they settle without a human in the loop, and they chain calls so one API's output becomes the next one's input. Serving them reaches a class of consumer that did not exist when a provider's pricing page was written.

Listing an API

Bringing an API to AirnodeHub means deploying an Airnode over it and getting it listed.

TODO

To be written.

Status

The marketplace lists a hardcoded registry of integrations built and deployed by Api3, so getting listed today means talking to Api3. Credits, API keys and payments need a backend, which is deliberately deferred, so no revenue flows yet.