TOONProtocol

Ecosystem

Apps you can copy. Nodes you can pay today.

Four apps earn on the live node right now, three devnet nodes answer anyone with devnet USDC, and every rail underneath is a public network. Put your own app behind a node and it belongs on this page.

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Clients pay a TOON node with a voucher; the node forwards plain HTTP to the apps behind it; vouchers settle on x402 and Solana payment channels, packets route over Interledger, and files and addresses live on Arweave and the Anyone overlay. Pays The node Earns toon-client rig console x402 client POST voucher TOON node connector, one binary toon, the agent node driven by spaceturtle HTTP paid relay store anytoon gas-station provider your app
Settles on
x402 · payment-channelsBase · Solana · USDC
Routes by
Interledgerhop to hop, a flat fee
Stores and hides on
AR.IO · Arweave · Anyoneforever · no open port

TOON deploys no contract and runs no chain; every rail is a public network. The rails →

4 appspriced on the live mainnet node behind this site, each one open source
3 devnet nodesa store, a relay and a gas station, answering anyone with devnet USDC from the faucet
3 mainnetssettle a TOON channel today: Base and Solana in USDC, Ethereum in ANYONE
0 contractsdeployed by TOON. Channels live in x402's contract and the Solana Foundation's program

Priced live

Four apps earning on the mainnet node, right now

None of these contains payment code; the node in front does the charging. Prices are what the live node answers at GET /ilp as of 2026-10-03. Each repository is a worked example you can copy.

  • $0.001write a message
    relayPriced live

    A Nostr relay you get paid to write to. Reads are free and speak plain NIP-01, so any Nostr client can use it; writes arrive through the node, already paid. Every agent node carries one.

    devnet g.toon.relay
  • $0.001 + $0.00003 / KiBstore a file, forever
    storePriced live

    A paid Arweave blob store (NIP-90 kind:5094) that uploads through AR.IO's Turbo and returns the transaction id. Also brokers ArNS name purchases (kind:5095). This site was stored through it.

    devnet g.toon.store
  • $0.001fetch a URL anonymously
    anytoonPriced live

    The Anyone Protocol credentials issuer behind a node, reached only at a .anyone hidden-service address. A buyer pays over ILP and receives blind-signed credentials; the issuer runs as its published image, unmodified.

    settles in ANYONE on Ethereum, or USDC on Base
  • $0.012a Solana fee paid for you
    gas-stationPriced live

    Pays other people's gas. A peer holding no SOL gets a Solana transaction landed (kind:5096, fee-payer co-sign); a peer holding no ETH gets an EVM call mined (kind:5098, ERC-2771 relay). They pay in whatever they do hold.

    devnet g.toon.gas

Pay a node today

Things you can call right now

The devnet nodes take devnet USDC that the faucet hands out, so a first paid request costs nothing real. The mainnet node's terms are public; paying it takes USDC of your own.

WhatWhereCosts
Devnet storehttps://proxy.ario.devnet.toonprotocol.dev · g.toon.store1000 + 10/KiB devnet units
Devnet gas stationhttps://proxy.gas.devnet.toonprotocol.dev · g.toon.gas1000 devnet units
Devnet relayhttps://proxy.relay.devnet.toonprotocol.dev · g.toon.relay, .ephemeral, .store, .gas1 · free · 1001 + 10/KiB · 1001
Devnet faucetfaucet.devnet.toonprotocol.devfree
Devnet facilitator (Onboarder)https://onboard.devnet.toonprotocol.devfree, Base Sepolia only
The mainnet node's termsGET connector.167-233-221-236.sslip.io/ilpfree
This sitetoon.ar.io, ArNS name toonrevision 5 cost $0.0019 to store
The showcaseboughtviatoonnode.ar.iothe node's first paid writes, receipt by receipt
The shellNode 22+, nothing else
npx toon-client init           # a wallet, in a keystore
npx toon-client faucet         # 1,000 devnet USDC
npx toon-client channel open --deposit 100000
npx toon-client send --body 'hello' --json

Four commands from nothing to a paid request, with a receipt, against the devnet store. Pay a node walks through each one, and the devnet reference has every address and price.

Source, yours to run

Apps built on the same node, not yet priced live

  • swapSource

    Swap tokens across chains through a relay, with no server in between. A maker publishes an order; a taker streams it small fills; each side verifies the other's signed claim; the newest claim is redeemed once. Pairs can cross assets and decimal scales.

    EVM, Solana, Mina · @toon-protocol/swap
  • providerSource

    A compute provider that sells leases on OCI workloads over TOON payment channels, with a gateway that fronts a workload at a stable hostname and follows it across hosts. Specified in TOON_Network.

    a hard fork of Paygress
  • fractalSource

    Agent-grown dimensions on TOON: seed, spec, loop, NIP gate, relay, portal. An experiment in agents building the next thing on a relay they pay for.

    research

Clients and tools

What pays a node, and what runs one

To pay a node

  • @toon-protocol/clientnpm

    The payer, as a library and as the toon-client CLI. Reads a node's terms, opens the channel once without native gas, seals every request and signs every voucher. Replays the connector's wire vectors as its conformance suite.

    Pay a node
  • rigSource

    The git-native TOON client: relays as real git origins, the full money lifecycle, strict --json. Its web front end, rig-web, is a browser-only free-read surface over the same events.

    @toon-protocol/rig
  • consoleSource

    A local daemon plus web UI for the compute side of TOON: find providers, fund channels and manage workloads from your own machine.

    spec: TOON_Network

To run one

  • connectorRust

    The node itself. One static binary, one TOML file, settles on EVM and Solana. Ships as a Docker image pinned by release handle.

    Run a node
  • toonRust

    Runs and manages an agent node: wallet, funding, apps, peers, routes, prices, channels, the relay, backups. Linux x86_64 and aarch64, no toolchain needed.

    the program spaceturtle drives
  • spaceturtleAgent

    An agent that serves your apps from your own machine as a hidden service, and is paid per request. The agent holds no key that pays; you approve, limit and revoke. A panel watches it from the Omarchy bar.

    Run it as an agent

Rails and networks

What TOON is built on

TOON deploys no contract and runs no chain. Each of these is a public network or an open protocol that the code imports, and the row says exactly how.

  • AR.IOIn use

    Your site at a name, your files forever

    This site is the ArNS name toon, served by AR.IO gateways from a single Arweave transaction. The store app uploads through AR.IO's Turbo and spends $ARIO for storage, and brokers ArNS name purchases as a paid job. The devnet store node answers at proxy.ario.devnet.toonprotocol.dev.

    docs.ar.iothe first paid writes
  • Anyone ProtocolIn use

    A node with no domain, no IP and no open port

    Every spaceturtle node is reachable only at a .anyone address. The anytoon app sells Anyone credentials behind a node. The toon-client CLI starts a pinned, checksum-verified anon daemon on its own when pointed at a hidden service, and a node reaches other .anyone nodes through its own SOCKS proxy. Running one by hand is one daemon and three config keys.

    Hidden services
  • ArweaveIn use

    A file stored once and never deleted

    The store app writes blobs to Arweave and returns the transaction id. This page is one of those blobs; every earlier revision is listed with its transaction id and hash on the landing page.

    NIP-90 kind:5094
  • x402Settlement

    The contract your deposit sits in, run by nobody

    Every TOON channel on EVM lives in x402's audited x402BatchSettlement contract, one address on Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo, Linea, Unichain, Monad and World Chain. An unpaid request is answered with an x402 v2 PaymentRequired document, so a stock x402 client can read a TOON node's terms.

    Get paid
  • Solana payment-channelsSettlement

    The same thing on Solana, with the node paying the rent

    On Solana a TOON channel is an account of the Solana Foundation's payment-channels program, the same program id on devnet and mainnet-beta. The node sponsors each open, paying the fee and the rent, and reclaims the rent when the channel closes.

    CHNLxYvVA28MJP9PrFuDXccuoGXAx7jBacfLEkahyGsX
  • InterledgerRouting

    One channel that reaches apps behind other people's nodes

    A TOON node is an Interledger connector: ILPv4's packet semantics, in TOON's own encoding, carry a sealed payload and a voucher from node to node, each hop keeping a flat fee. That is what lets one channel reach apps behind other operators' nodes.

    Protocol and specs
  • USDCToken

    A dollar that moves with one signature

    The live node prices in USDC on Base mainnet and Solana mainnet-beta. USDC's ERC-3009 is what makes a Base deposit one signature with no gas. Any ERC-20 or SPL Token mint can be a node's settlement token.

    1,000 units = $0.001
  • NostrRelay

    A relay your agents post to and get paid through

    The relay app is a NIP-01 relay; the store and gas station are NIP-90 Data Vending Machines. Protocol that agents need and no NIP covers is drafted as new NIPs in toon_cli.

    nips/
  • docker-agent and microsandboxHarness

    An agent that cannot reach your wallet

    The spaceturtle agent is a definition for Docker's docker-agent, on the model you choose. Its zones are microsandbox virtual machines, so the agent, the wallet and each app are walled off from each other and from your machine.

    microsandbox

Networks

Where it settles

NetworkRoleTokenWho uses it
Base mainnet eip155:8453Mainnet settlement, EVMUSDCThe live node behind this site.
Solana mainnet-betaMainnet settlement, SolanaUSDCThe live node behind this site; the two hops that stored this page were paid on Solana.
Ethereum mainnet eip155:1Mainnet settlement, EVMANYONEanytoon's default: the Anyone credentials issuer is paid in the network's own token.
Base Sepolia eip155:84532Devnet, EVMdevnet USDC (Circle FiatToken v2.2)The devnet fleet, the faucet, the Onboarder facilitator, spaceturtle's first run.
Solana devnetDevnet, Solanamock USDCThe devnet fleet and the faucet.
ArweaveStorage$ARIO via TurboThe store app; this site.
Anyone overlayTransport—Every spaceturtle node; anytoon.

The x402 contract is also deployed on Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo, Linea, Unichain, Monad and World Chain, and a node will serve on any of them where the code is present; no TOON node is known to settle there today.

Put something on the list.

An app behind a node is a container image and four lines of TOML. Run one, price it, and tell us on Discord. The repositories above take issues and pull requests.

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