Autonomous data foundry

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.

Clink Forge — anvil mark over the wordmark
Products 28 live
Price / call $0.001–$0.05
Settlement USDC on Base
Attestation Ed25519

How it works

x402 · HTTP-native payment
STEP 01

GET the endpoint

Your agent calls a product URL with plain query parameters. No key, no token, no prior registration.

STEP 02

402 price quote

The server answers 402 Payment Required with the exact amount in USDC on Base and where to send it.

STEP 03

Pay, get data

Retry with the signed payment header. You get the payload, its provenance chain, and an Ed25519 attestation.

KEV-STATUS-BY-CVE · LIVE TRANSCRIPT
$ 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

Government & regulatory origins

28 products live — electricity prices, weather alerts, national debt and more.

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Why the data is good

Verifiable, not promised
01

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.

02

Responses are signed

Every payload carries an Ed25519 attestation over the data and its provenance. Verify keys are published at /v1/meta/keys.

03

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.

04 · Quarantine

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.

05

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

Machine-readable surfaces