| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Morpheus Inference Marketplace | The decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplace coordinating consumers and providers on BASE. The conceptual whole. |
| BASE | Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 rollup. Morpheus settles here. Mainnet chain ID 8453; Sepolia 84532. |
| MOR | Morpheus marketplace ERC-20 token, used for stake, fees, and session payment. |
| Compute Node contracts | The set of smart contracts (Diamond marketplace) that register providers and models, match consumers with providers, and secure the connection. |
| Diamond contract | The on-chain Diamond proxy implementing the Compute Node marketplace. Tracks providers, models, bids, and sessions. |
| Reputation system | Per-provider performance tracking (uptime, TTFT, throughput, success, stake). Used by the consumer-side proxy-router to bias session routing — see rating-config. |
| Session-time pricing | Pricing model — providers post pricePerSecond, not pricePerToken. Long contexts and short contexts cost the same per second. |
| Provider | An on-chain record representing a node that hosts (or fronts) one or more AI models. Identified by a wallet address. |
| P-Node | A “Provider Node” — the proxy-router process running in the provider role. |
| C-Node | A “Consumer Node” — the proxy-router process running in the consumer role. |
| Bid | An on-chain offer: (modelId, providerId, pricePerSecond). Consumers accept by opening a session. |
| Session | A time-boxed contract with escrowed MOR. openSession moves stake into the Inference Contract; closeSession returns unused stake immediately, may day-lock the used stipend in userStakesOnHold, and pays the provider from a separate fundingAccount. |
| Stake | (1) Consumer: MOR escrowed for a session. (2) Provider: refundable bond a provider must post to register a provider or model. |
userStakesOnHold | Per-user array on the Inference Contract that holds the used stipend after close. Each entry has an amount and releaseAt = startOfTheDay(min(closedAt, endsAt)) + 1 day. Cleared via withdrawUserStakes. |
withdrawUserStakes | On-chain function (withdrawUserStakes(address, uint8), selector 0xa98a7c6b) on the Diamond contract that moves past-releaseAt rows from userStakesOnHold to the user’s wallet. No HTTP route on the proxy-router. |
fundingAccount | Protocol-owned wallet that pays providers inside closeSession via transferFrom. If empty or under-approved, every closeSession fails network-wide. |
| Natural expiration | Session close where closedAt >= endsAt (often auto-submitted ~1 minute after endsAt). Unused stake returns in the close txn; the used stipend still day-locks if the close lands before releaseAt. |
| Early close | User-initiated closeSession before endsAt. Unused stake returns immediately; used stipend may go to userStakesOnHold. |
| Used-stipend day-lock | Hold of the stake equivalent of session time × pricePerSecond until the next UTC day after sessionEnd. Blocks same-day reuse of that capital. |
| Subnet provider | A provider that has staked 10000 MOR (vs the standard 0.2) and gets elevated marketplace standing. |
| Allowance | Standard ERC-20 approval the consumer / provider grants to the Diamond contract so it can move MOR on their behalf. |
| proxy-router | The Go service in this repo. Same binary serves consumer and provider roles; configuration differs. |
| MorpheusUI | The Electron desktop UI in this repo. |
| mor-cli | The Go CLI client in this repo. Local builds produce ./mor-cli; GitHub release assets are named *-morpheus-cli-<version>. |
local model | The tinyllama demo model, downloaded and started automatically by the MorpheusUI desktop app (its “AI Runtime” service). Not a Morpheus marketplace model. |
tee tag | Tag added to a model on chain to engage the two-hop attestation chain (Phase 1 + Phase 2). |
-tee image | The hardened proxy-router image (ghcr.io/morpheusais/morpheus-lumerin-node-tee) with config baked at build time. |
| RTMR3 | Intel TDX runtime-measurement register #3. Computed from the rootfs and the deployed compose; the unique fingerprint of the running TEE workload. |
| Phase 1 | Consumer’s proxy-router verifies the provider’s P-Node TDX attestation. |
| Phase 2 | Provider’s P-Node verifies its own backend LLM TDX + GPU attestation. |
| SecretVM | SCRT Labs’ confidential VM platform. Hosts most current TEE-tagged Morpheus providers. |
| SecretAI portal | https://secretai.scrtlabs.com — used to verify TEE attestation interactively. |
apidocs.mor.org | Documentation for the Morpheus Inference API — a separate, hosted, OpenAI-compatible gateway product. It is not the proxy-router HTTP API reference. See Inference API overview. |
| Inference API / API Gateway | Hosted OpenAI-compatible HTTPS gateway built on top of Morpheus. Base URL: https://api.mor.org/api/v1. Docs at apidocs.mor.org. For users who don’t want to run their own node. |
Morpheus Chat App / app.mor.org | Hosted browser-based consumer chat UI, powered by the hosted Inference API Gateway. |
gitbook.mor.org | Broader Morpheus documentation hub. Supports an ?ask=<question> query parameter that returns natural-language answers + sources — useful for AI agents. See LLM cheatsheet. |
active.mor.org | Live marketplace state — status, active models, active bids. |
tech.mor.org | Calculators, sessions, TEE, throughput explainers. |
| MyProvider | Hosted operator GUI at https://myprovider.mor.org — Basic Auth to your proxy-router for provider/bid/config management (not a browser wallet). |
| NodeNeo | Cross-platform consumer experience at https://nodeneo.io. |
| Everclaw | Agent project at https://everclaw.xyz, with a Morpheus skill for OpenClaw. |
models-config.json | Local file mapping on-chain modelId → backend apiUrl. See reference. |
rating-config.json | Local file controlling provider selection weights and allowlists. See reference. |
Reference
Glossary
Canonical, agent-friendly definitions of Morpheus terms.
LLM-friendly definitions — short, opinionated, and consistent across the rest of the docs. If a term here disagrees with anything elsewhere on this site, the rest of the site is wrong; file an issue.