Machine-purchasable data with cryptographic provenance
Pay per call over the x402 protocol — USDC on Base. No account, no API key, no sales process. Your agent GETs an endpoint, receives a price quote, pays, and gets the data with a signed chain back to the government source.
How it works
GET the endpoint
Your agent calls a product URL with plain query parameters. No key, no token, no prior registration.
402 price quote
The server answers 402 Payment Required with the exact
amount in USDC on Base and where to send it.
Pay, get data
Retry with the signed payment header. You get the payload, its provenance chain, and an Ed25519 attestation.
$ curl -i https://api.clinkforge.com/v1/p/kev-status-by-cve?id=CVE-2021-44228 HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required {"x402Version":1,"accepts":[{"scheme":"exact","network":"base","asset":"USDC", "maxAmountRequired":"10000","payTo":"0xF3D6…32cc", "resource":"…/v1/p/kev-status-by-cve"}],"charged":false} $ curl -H "X-PAYMENT: $SIGNED" https://api.clinkforge.com/v1/p/kev-status-by-cve?id=CVE-2021-44228 HTTP/1.1 200 OK { "data": [{ "cve_id":"CVE-2021-44228", "vendor":"Apache", "product":"Log4j2", "date_added":"2021-12-10", "due_date":"2021-12-24" }], "provenance": [{ "authority":"CISA", "source_url":"cisa.gov/…/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json", "observed_at":"2026-08-24T17:16:58Z", "hash":"13788496…a5f8a9d5" }], "attestation": { "signing_key_id":"forge-key-1", "result_digest":"f9e46a11…e0f8dda4", "signature":"G2rw8xom…TIt0CQ==" } }
Catalog highlights
28 products live — electricity prices, weather alerts, national debt and more.
See the full catalog →Why the data is good
Every fact has a snapshot
Each value resolves to a stored snapshot of the authoritative origin. The provenance chain — source, capture time, license — ships inside the response.
Responses are signed
Every payload carries an Ed25519 attestation over the data and its
provenance. Verify keys are published at /v1/meta/keys.
Rights fail closed
Redistribution is checked against an exact license identifier per source. If the identifier is missing or unclear, the product does not ship.
You cannot be charged for bad data
An unhealthy dataset is quarantined and never issues a payment challenge. No 402, no invoice, no silent degradation — the endpoint simply declines to sell.
No LLM on the paid path
Deterministic code from request to response. Nothing on the billable path is generated, summarised or inferred by a model.
For agents
The whole catalog in plain text — every product, parameter and price.
/v1/meta/openapi.jsonFull OpenAPI description of every endpoint and response schema.
/v1/meta/mcp/toolsMCP tool schemas, ready to register with your agent runtime.
/.well-known/x402.jsonx402 discovery: network, asset, scheme and payment address.