security2 publishers
Credential-pooling relays are reselling frontier-model access to users the providers never see
Team Cymru counted more than 10,000 self-hosted LLM gateways fronting traffic out of China. They pool accounts behind keys of their own, so the model provider logs the relay's address and never the user's.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence58