# Agent402 UK Crypto Address Validator

> Agent402 UK Crypto Address Validator is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.co.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Validates cryptocurrency wallet addresses for ETH (EIP-55 checksum), Solana (base58-32), and Bitcoin (Base58Check, bech32, bech32m) formats with automatic or explicit chain detection.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent402.co.uk/v1/validate/crypto-address
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent402-uk-crypto-address-validator-d630f1bb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ciKDrQOrQcVoe4amH4j0U

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent402-uk-crypto-address-validator-d630f1bb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you validate this Ethereum address for me — 0x9EF9f5b12b1B24Ea99D4B2eEF4C71B7e3B85f2a — and make sure the checksum is correct?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when your agent needs authoritative, multi-format address validation covering ETH (EIP-55 checksum), Solana (base58-32), and Bitcoin (Base58Check + bech32/bech32m) in a single call with auto-detection. It is ideal for pre-transaction guard rails in DeFi workflows, payment routing pipelines, or any multi-chain agent that must reject malformed addresses before committing funds. Prefer it over hand-rolled regex checks or single-chain validators when you need correctness guarantees across all three major chains at negligible cost ($0.001/call).

## Known failure modes

- Address is malformed or contains invalid characters — returns valid: false
- Unsupported chain specified — may return an error or valid: false
- Bech32m vs bech32 mismatch for Bitcoin segwit addresses — flagged as invalid
- Empty or null address field — likely returns validation error
- Chain mismatch when chain is explicitly set but address format belongs to a different chain

## How this service works

Don't burn tokens on deterministic work. Go/no-go jobs first: payout preflight, text firewall (PII/secrets), budget check — then rails, calendars, finmath. x402 USDC on Base. UK + global. agent402.co.uk — not agent402.tools. $0.001–$0.002 USDC on Base. No API keys.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the detected or specified chain name, a boolean valid field indicating whether the address is correctly formatted, and (for Ethereum addresses) the EIP-55 checksummed version of the address.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "chain": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "auto|eth|sol|btc"
  },
  "address": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Address string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "chain": "eth",
  "valid": true,
  "checksummed": "0x9EF9…"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent402-uk-crypto-address-validator-d630f1bb/health.json
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