The relay market powering token resellers and fraud

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A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond

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My Story I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about token fraud, a problem I first stumbled upon while working as a software engineer on an AI gateway.

We faced constant abuse. At first it was free-credit abuse, where users spun up accounts en masse. Then it was our support chatbot. I started talking to friends about it and hearing stories of companies losing millions of dollars to abuse each day.

The abuse took a number of different shapes, and the abusers were relentless. I came to realize that the problem was much bigger than us. A new form of fraud had emerged, and it had become endemic to the token economy.

While researching where the abuse was coming from, I stumbled onto a Chinese forum where operators openly discussed the relays and their methods. My notes on the industry and its players are below.

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