# AlphaPipeline Kimchi Alert

> AlphaPipeline Kimchi Alert is a paid API for AI agents from alphapipeline-eu.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the real-time kimchi premium (Upbit KRW vs Binance USDT price gap) for a crypto asset, plus reverse-premium and 1-hour surge alerts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alphapipeline-eu.onrender.com/v1/market/kimchi-alert
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alphapipeline-kimchi-alert-5a9bbe41
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QUSjEviHNaUlrBu-TGpJ_

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 alphapipeline-kimchi-alert-5a9bbe41
```

Example prompt: What's the current kimchi premium for BTC — is it in reverse premium or has it surged in the last hour?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a live, single-call snapshot of the Korea crypto price premium (kimchi premium) with built-in alert flags — especially useful for arbitrage monitoring, trading signal pipelines, or any agent that needs to react to reverse-premium or rapid premium surges without building custom exchange comparison logic. Prefer it over raw exchange APIs when you want the premium percentage and alert thresholds pre-calculated and ready to act on.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported ticker symbol returns an error or empty result
- Upbit or Binance data feed outage may cause stale or unavailable price data
- USD/KRW rate estimate may lag behind real forex rates, introducing small inaccuracies
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC or wrong network) blocks access with a 402 response
- Network timeout from the render.com host during high load

## How this service works

Real-time Korea (Upbit) vs global crypto price premium - the 'kimchi premium' - with reverse-premium and 1h-surge alerts. Paid in USDC on Base.

## Output

A JSON object containing: the crypto symbol checked, Upbit price in KRW, Binance price in USDT, estimated USD/KRW rate, kimchi premium percentage, 1-hour premium change percentage, boolean flags for reverse-premium and 1-hour surge alerts, the threshold values used for those alerts, and timestamps in both UTC and KST.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "symbol": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Crypto ticker symbol to check, e.g. BTC, ETH, SOL. Defaults to BTC."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "KimchiAlertResponse",
     "required": [
      "generated_at",
      "symbol",
      "upbit_price_krw",
      "binance_price_usdt",
      "usdkrw_rate_estimate",
      "kimchi_premium_pct",
      "premium_change_1h_pct",
      "alerts",
      "thresholds"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "alerts": {
       "type": "object",
       "title": "KimchiAlerts",
       "required": [
        "reverse_premium",
        "premium_surge_1h"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "reverse_premium": {
         "type": "boolean",
         "title": "Reverse Premium"
        },
        "premium_surge_1h": {
         "type": "boolean",
         "title": "Premium Surge 1H"
        }
       }
      },
      "symbol": {
       "type": "string",
       "title": "Symbol"
      },
      "thresholds": {
       "type": "object",
       "title": "KimchiThresholds",
       "required": [
        "reverse_premium_pct",
        "surge_1h_pct"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "surge_1h_pct": {
         "type": "number",
         "title": "Surge 1H Pct"
        },
        "reverse_premium_pct": {
         "type": "number",
         "title": "Reverse Premium Pct"
        }
       }
      },
      "generated_at": {
       "type": "object",
       "title": "TimestampPair",
       "required": [
        "utc",
        "kst"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "kst": {
         "type": "string",
         "title": "Kst"
        },
        "utc": {
         "type": "string",
         "title": "Utc"
        }
       }
      },
      "upbit_price_krw": {
       "type": "number",
       "title": "Upbit Price Krw"
      },
  
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```

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