# Animica Mining Jobs Snapshot

> Animica Mining Jobs Snapshot is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001794/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a single-poll snapshot of all workload lanes (render, proof-of-work, inference serving) available for GPU or hash capacity on an Animica node, including supply gaps, difficulty metrics, VRAM requirements, and enrollment endpoints.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/mining/jobs
- Price: $0.001794/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-mining-jobs-snapshot-a34dbd41
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1OpvdTH8bApW9OsKpzhd-

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 animica-mining-jobs-snapshot-a34dbd41 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Check the Animica mining jobs endpoint for all three lanes — render, proof-of-work, and inference serving — and tell me which render kinds currently have no supply so I can decide where to point my GPU capacity.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a single comprehensive poll of all Animica workload opportunities across render, proof-of-work, and inference serving lanes simultaneously. Prefer it over individual lane queries when deciding where to allocate GPU or hash capacity, sizing hardware for a new mining box, or identifying underserved render kinds. The no-charge-on-empty-lane policy makes it safe to poll frequently without cost risk.

## Known failure modes

- Unreadable lane: lane exists but cannot be probed, returned as 'unreadable' rather than an error
- Empty queue: lane is reachable but has no jobs, returned as empty object/array
- Invalid kind value: returns error if the media kind string does not match known kinds
- Incompatible parameter combination: kind filter cannot be combined with lane=proof_of_work or lane=inference_serving
- Node offline: if the Animica node is unreachable, the endpoint may return a connectivity error
- Payment failure: x402 payment not accepted, 402 returned with updated challenge

## How this service works

Which Animica workloads a machine can earn on, in one poll. Per-kind GPU render supply, with the kinds NOBODY serves flagged as supply gaps; the proof-of-work lane off an Animica node (difficulty, thetaMicro, hashrate with unit+window, mempool depth); VRAM floor and deps per kind from the reference miner client; probed enrolment endpoints. Buy it to decide where to point GPU or hash capacity, or to size a box. Empty queues read empty, unreadable ones unreadable. No observable lane, no charge.

## Output

A structured snapshot containing: per-kind GPU render supply with flagged supply gaps for unserved kinds; proof-of-work lane metrics (difficulty, thetaMicro, hashrate with unit and window, mempool depth); VRAM floor and dependency requirements per render kind from the reference miner client; probed enrollment endpoints. Empty queues are returned as empty; unreadable lanes are marked unreadable. If attestation is requested, the snapshot is signed with ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204). No charge is applied if no observable lane is found.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "kind": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "restrict the render matrix to one media kind, e.g. video_t2v or audio_master. Filters the render lane only, so it cannot be combined with lane=proof_of_work or lane=inference_serving"
  },
  "lane": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "one of render, proof_of_work, inference_serving (default: all three)"
  },
  "attest": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "sign the snapshot with ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204, scheme 4099)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-mining-jobs-snapshot-a34dbd41/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from animica.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/animica.dev/llms.txt)