# Animica PQ Identity Certificate Issuance

> Animica PQ Identity Certificate Issuance is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.0018/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Issues a post-quantum ML-DSA-65 identity certificate for an AI agent, binding a self-declared name and public key into a signed credential with optional chain anchoring.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/pq/identity
- Price: $0.0018/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-pq-identity-certificate-issuance-0af97758
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OzSKP20hnNLtSSHtMUgQ9

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-pq-identity-certificate-issuance-0af97758 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Issue me an Animica post-quantum identity certificate for my agent named 'ResearchBot-7', using my ML-DSA-65 public key, valid for 30 days, and anchor it to the current Animica chain head so the issue time is provable.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs a post-quantum (ML-DSA-65 / FIPS 204) signed identity credential — especially when interoperating with systems that verify Animica-scheme keys. Prefer it over generic PKI or OAuth flows when quantum-resistance is a requirement, when you want optional blockchain time-anchoring for auditability, or when you need to attach self-asserted claims to the credential. It is pay-per-call with no registration, making it suitable for ephemeral or short-lived agent identities.

## Known failure modes

- 400 Bad Request — key_proof envelope does not verify (wrong signature, wrong payload, or older than 3600s); call is free and not charged
- 400 Bad Request — agent_name is empty, longer than 128 characters, or contains non-printable ASCII
- 400 Bad Request — public_key is not exactly 3904 hex characters
- 503 Service Unavailable — anchor_chain=true but the Animica node is unreachable; call is not charged
- Payment failure — x402 payment of $0.006 USDC not satisfied before the call is processed

## How this service works

Animica Python Cloud: deploy a Python function to animica.dev, get a public endpoint, and earn ANM every time someone runs it. Free AI (OpenAI-compatible, no key), free scheduled Workers, and an 80/20 developer split.

## Output

A signed animica identity certificate containing the agent name (marked self-declared), the ML-DSA-65 public key with binding status (PROVEN if key_proof was valid, PRESENTED otherwise), not_before/not_after validity timestamps derived from ttl_seconds, any self-asserted claims (flagged as unendorsed), and optionally an observed Animica chain head (height and hash) as an issuance time lower bound. Also includes a payment confirmation block.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input",
  "output"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {}
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-pq-identity-certificate-issuance-0af97758/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)