# Carbon Cashmere TradFi Macro Indicators API

> Carbon Cashmere TradFi Macro Indicators API is a paid API for AI agents from api.carbon-cashmere.de, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns live traditional finance macro indicators (Crude Oil, DXY, Gold, VIX, US 10-Year Yield, S&P futures) with 1h/4h/24h price changes, updated every 5 minutes, for risk-on/off and macro regime analysis.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.carbon-cashmere.de/v1/macro
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-carbon-cashmere-de-49e50152
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rM0_bZeGW-KlyW4Fa-VU7

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 api-carbon-cashmere-de-49e50152
```

Example prompt: Give me the current macro snapshot — VIX, DXY, gold, crude oil, S&P futures, and US 10-year yield with their 1h and 24h changes — and tell me whether we're in a risk-on or risk-off regime right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a real-time, unified snapshot of key TradFi macro indicators for regime classification or crypto-macro correlation analysis. Ideal for AI agents that need to contextualize crypto signals against broader market conditions (risk-on/off, dollar strength, volatility). Prefer this over general financial data APIs when you specifically need VIX, DXY, CL, GC, ES, and 10Y yield together with pre-computed short-term changes and a 5-minute refresh cadence.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not accepted or insufficient USDC balance (402 Payment Required)
- Service temporarily unavailable due to upstream data feed outage (503)
- Rate limiting if called too frequently beyond the per-call pricing model (429)
- Stale data if upstream TradFi data provider has a delay or outage
- Empty or partial indicators array if one or more instruments are unavailable

## How this service works

Professional crypto market intelligence. Real-time prices, signals, and market scoring.

## Output

An array of macro indicators including Crude Oil (CL), DXY, Gold (GC), VIX, US 10-Year Treasury Yield, and S&P 500 futures (ES), each with per-instrument price changes over 1h, 4h, and 24h time windows. Also includes AI-ready classifications for risk-on/off regime, dollar-strength detection, and macro-crypto correlation context. Data is refreshed every 5 minutes.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "indicators": [
   {
    "price": 94.88,
    "symbol": "CL",
    "change_1h": 0.12,
    "change_4h": 1.18,
    "change_24h": -1.58
   },
   {
    "price": 98.51,
    "symbol": "DXY",
    "change_1h": -0.01,
    "change_4h": -0.02,
    "change_24h": -0.32
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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