# Ploba

Ploba is a decentralized and managed AI Agent and MCP Server Marketplace. It provides a platform for developers to distribute their AI-powered tools, agents, APIs, datasets, and plugins, while giving users a central hub to discover, install, and pay for these services.

## Our Mission & Values
AI tools deserve a real distribution layer. They shouldn't live scattered across GitHub repos, Discord servers, and personal blogs. They should be discoverable, monetizable, and trustworthy. We handle billing, metering, licensing, and abuse prevention so builders can focus on building.
- **Trust through curation:** Every listing is reviewed before it goes live.
- **Open ecosystem:** Framework-agnostic and protocol-forward, built on open standards.
- **Creator-first economics:** Creators keep the majority of revenue.
- **Community accountability:** Reviews, ratings, and public creator profiles.

## For Developers
Publish and scale your AI agents globally. Ploba provides the infrastructure you wish existed: a curated marketplace, a metering API that integrates in minutes, and a credit wallet system that handles per-app usage billing transparently. 
- [Developer Platform](https://ploba.app/developer)

## The Virtual Economy and Metering

Ploba's architecture natively supports decentralized usage metering and billing:
- **Per-App Wallets:** Each installed app/agent provisions a strict 1:1 isolated token balance wallet.
- **Metering API:** Developer servers interface with Ploba's API to verify runtime authorization (License Keys) and deduct credits on a per-invocation or per-token basis.
- **Auto Top-ups:** Users can configure auto-recharge thresholds to ensure uninterrupted agent execution.
- **Billing Models:** Developers can choose between flat subscriptions, credit packs, hybrid allowances, or Free/BYOK options.

## MCP Capabilities

Ploba natively understands Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The marketplace highlights:
- **Tools:** What an agent or API can do (e.g., `vector_search`, `generate_revenue_report`).
- **Prompts:** Pre-configured prompts provided by the app.
- **Resources:** Datasets and files exposed by the MCP server.

## LLM Resources Index

Due to the massive size of the Ploba catalog, detailed information is partitioned into the following LLM-optimized resources:

- [AI Apps](https://ploba.app/llms/apps.txt): End-user applications powered by AI.
- [AI Agents](https://ploba.app/llms/agents.txt): Autonomous AI agents capable of executing tasks.
- [AI APIs](https://ploba.app/llms/apis.txt): Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI API endpoints.
- [Plugins](https://ploba.app/llms/plugins.txt): Integrations for existing software.
- [Datasets](https://ploba.app/llms/datasets.txt): Data used for training or context.
- [Organizations](https://ploba.app/llms/organizations.txt): Verified developer profiles and publishers.
- [Categories](https://ploba.app/llms/categories.txt): All available product categories.
- [Learn](https://ploba.app/learn): Educational articles and guides.

## Marketplace Overview

- [Discover](https://ploba.app/explore)
- [Top Charts](https://ploba.app/top-charts)

## Security, Trust & Safety

We maintain strict security practices to protect our creators and users:
- **Authentication:** JWT access tokens, Email OTP MFA, Per-device tracking, and Arcjet rate limiting.
- **Data Protection:** TLS 1.2+, Argon2id password hashing, AES-256 for user API keys, and isolated per-app credit wallets.
- **Infrastructure:** Serverless architecture with restricted database access.
- **Responsible Disclosure:** Report vulnerabilities to security@ploba.app.

- [About Us](https://ploba.app/about)
- [Security Practices](https://ploba.app/security)
- [Privacy Policy](https://ploba.app/policies/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://ploba.app/policies/tos)
- [Acceptable Use](https://ploba.app/policies/acceptable-use)
- [Safety Measures](https://ploba.app/policies/safety-measure)
- [Third-party Tools](https://ploba.app/policies/third-party-tools)