# Carbon Cashmere dTAO Network Health

> Carbon Cashmere dTAO Network Health is a paid API for AI agents from api.carbon-cashmere.de, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns aggregate Bittensor dTAO network health metrics including emission stability, stake concentration (Gini coefficient), and alpha-price dynamics across tracked subnets from a live Subtensor lite node.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.carbon-cashmere.de/v1/bittensor/dtao/health
- Price: $0.005/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-c281e057
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yLXJDzUBLfpBywUYWvKcD

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-c281e057
```

Example prompt: Pull the current Bittensor dTAO network health from Carbon Cashmere's Subtensor lite node — I want to see emission stability, the Gini stake concentration score, and how alpha prices are moving across their tracked subnets.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, high-level health snapshot of the Bittensor dTAO network without needing per-miner details. Prefer it over the full metagraph endpoint when only network-wide emission stability, stake concentration (Gini), and alpha-price dynamics are needed. Best for dashboards, alerting workflows, or pre-screening subnet health before deeper analysis.

## Known failure modes

- Subtensor lite node temporarily unavailable — HTTP 503 or 502
- Payment not processed or x402 authentication failure — HTTP 402
- Rate limit exceeded — HTTP 429
- Upstream Bittensor node sync lag causing stale data
- Empty or partial response if subnet data is mid-update

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object with network-level dTAO health data including: emission stability indicators, Gini coefficient for stake concentration, alpha-price dynamics across tracked subnets, current TAO price in USD, stake distribution breakdown, and network scope metadata. No per-miner granularity — aggregate subnet-level only.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "scope": {
   "note": "Aggregated from subnets tracked by our Subtensor lite node.",
   "subnets_tracked": 10,
   "data_age_seconds": 35
  },
  "network": {
   "total_neurons": 2561,
   "activation_rate": 0.061,
   "total_validators": 105,
   "validator_density": 0.041,
   "total_active_neurons": 156
  },
  "tao_price_usd": 220.5,
  "stake_distribution": {
   "avg_gini_stake": 0.985,
   "interpretation": "0=perfect equality, 1=full concentration",
   "avg_gini_incentive": 0.938
  },
  "alpha_price_dynamics": {
   "avg_alpha_price_tao": 0.030562,
   "max_alpha_price_tao": 0.074613,
   "min_alpha_price_tao": 0.004061,
   "std_alpha_price_tao": 0.018432,
   "coefficient_of_variation": 0.603
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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