In a hurry? Pick the fastest path.
  • Just want to use it (~5 min): download the desktop app from the latest release and run it — wallet, chat, and proxy-router are bundled. See the Consumer quickstart.
  • Try it free — no wallet, no tokens: the desktop app bundles a local llama.cpp model for demos, so you can chat immediately without staking MOR. Look for the local model option after install.
  • Building on the marketplace? jump to the Hosted Inference API.
New to Morpheus? Read on for how the pieces fit together.
The Morpheus Lumerin Node is the open-source software that connects you to the Morpheus Inference Marketplace — a decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplace where consumers and independent providers trade AI inference, coordinated by smart contracts on BASE. You interact with it through a desktop chat experience, a CLI, or a direct HTTP API on your local node. If you’d rather skip running a node entirely and use a simple OpenAI-compatible API key, see the hosted Morpheus Inference API (apidocs.mor.org). For the conceptual picture (decentralization rationale, Compute Node contracts, peer-to-peer routing, reputation system, session-time pricing), see What is Morpheus?.

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What’s in the box

proxy-router

Background process that listens to the BASE blockchain, manages secure consumer/provider sessions, and routes prompts and responses. The same binary serves both sides; only configuration differs.

MorpheusUI

Electron desktop GUI that consumers use to browse bids, open sessions, and chat with models.

mor-cli

Command-line client that talks to the proxy-router HTTP API.

llama.cpp + tinyllama

A throw-away local model bundled for demos so you can try the stack without paying MOR.

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How the pieces talk

  1. Consumer opens a session by staking MOR against a provider’s bid on chain.
  2. The consumer proxy-router opens a TCP connection to the provider proxy-router (port 3333 by default) and forwards prompts.
  3. The provider proxy-router dispatches to the configured backend model (apiUrl in models-config.json) and streams the response back.
  4. The BASE blockchain holds the source of truth for providers, models, bids, and sessions. MOR pays for usage; ETH on BASE pays for gas.

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Pick your role

Hosted Inference API

No node, no wallet — OpenAI-compatible API key.

Consumer quickstart

Install the desktop release, fund a wallet, open a session, chat.

Provider quickstart

Stand up a proxy-router, look up existing models on active.mor.org, bid (mint only if needed).

TEE provider fast lane

Deploy a hardened -tee image on SecretVM in minutes.

Resale provider

Resell Venice / OpenAI / Anthropic capacity on Morpheus.

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Networks and addresses

See Networks & tokens for the canonical, per-release MOR token, Diamond contract, and chain-ID values.