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 files, and submit your business to every major AI agent registry and LLM crawler directory.

How it works

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

Getting Started

How it all works

From registration to discovery — here's the full flow of how your business gets into the hands of AI agents.

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..."
}

Getting Started

Your Business Profile

The more information you add to your dashboard, the more agent queries your business matches. MOTE uses your profile data to generate your machine-readable files — every field you complete makes your listing more specific and more findable.

Core details

Business name, category, description, location, phone number, website, and hours. These are the fields agents use to match location-based and category-based queries — "find me a florist in Austin" or "book a consultant in London."

Tags and keywords

Tags are broad descriptors (vegetarian, pet-friendly, same-day delivery). Keywords are specific search terms you want to rank for. Both are added as pills in your dashboard and written directly into your machine-readable files. An agent searching for "gluten-free catering in Nashville" matches on keywords — not just category.

Products and pricing

Add individual products or services with names, descriptions, prices, and categories. This is how agents answer specific pricing queries — "find me a graphic designer under $150/hour" or "coffee shops with cold brew under $8." Without products and pricing, your business can only match category-level queries.

Offers

Time-limited offers and promotions. Agents surfacing deals and discounts read this field directly.

Booking and delivery

Booking URL and delivery radius. Agents handling appointment booking or delivery matching use these fields to qualify your business against the request.

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:

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.

Coming in Phase 2

MPP Protocol

MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) is the standard MOTE will use for agent-to-business payments in Phase 2. It handles the full payment flow: challenge, verification, and on-chain settlement via USDC on Sui.

Coming in Phase 2

x402 Payments

x402 is the open HTTP payment protocol developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. MOTE will use x402 to make merchant endpoints payable by any agent in Phase 2 — without accounts, API keys, or subscriptions.

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

Integration

MCP Server

MOTE runs two MCP servers — a stdio server for Claude Desktop installs and a remote HTTP server for developers and platforms like Smithery.

Two discovery paths — one requires nothing

Path 2 is the default and requires zero setup. AI crawlers including Grok, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI read your machine-readable listing directly from MOTE's public URLs — automatically, with no install required. This is how most businesses will be discovered today.

Path 1 is for developers. The MCP server requires a manual config file edit in Claude Desktop — a technical step that most business owners won't do. If you're building agent workflows or integrating MOTE into your own tools, Path 1 gives you structured query access to the full registry.

stdio install (Claude Desktop)

MOTE is listed in the official Model Context Protocol registry at registry.modelcontextprotocol.io — maintained by Anthropic, alongside Microsoft, GitHub, and hundreds of other tools. To install in Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mote-registry": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mote-registry"]
    }
  }
}

Once installed, Claude can run four tools against the MOTE registry: search_merchants (search by category, location, keyword), get_merchant (full profile by ID), list_categories (all registered business categories), and get_merchant_products (products and pricing for a specific merchant).

Remote HTTP server (developers)

MOTE also runs a remote HTTP MCP server with full SSE support. No install required — connect directly from any agent framework or platform.

Endpoint:  https://mote-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/sse
Transport: HTTP/SSE
Auth:      None (public)
Tools:     search_merchants, get_merchant, list_categories,
           get_merchant_products, search (ChatGPT-compatible),
           fetch (ChatGPT-compatible)

The remote server supports both SSE sessions and single-request mode. ChatGPT Deep Research compatible via the search and fetch tools.

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.

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