# Darkly Energized: PBoC Total Assets (USD)

> Darkly Energized: PBoC Total Assets (USD) is a paid API for AI agents from darklyenergized.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns a time series of the People's Bank of China total assets converted to USD, with optional date filtering and statistical summaries.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://darklyenergized.com/api/v1/x402/series/cb_usd_cncbbs?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/darkly-energized-pboc-total-assets-usd-d6038b9d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cfHfmnuq7R-sHNYNFMbMJ

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 darkly-energized-pboc-total-assets-usd-d6038b9d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the People's Bank of China total assets in USD from January 2020 through December 2023, returning up to 1000 data points?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need People's Bank of China total asset data specifically in USD denomination, particularly for cross-country central bank comparisons or global liquidity analysis. It is preferable to raw PBoC data sources because it handles currency conversion automatically and delivers a clean, dated time series. Use when you need historical depth, date-range filtering, or a statistical summary rather than just the latest value.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format for from/to/after parameters returns a 400 error
- Requesting more than 10000 data points returns a validation error
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC triggers a 402 Payment Required response
- Date range with no available data returns an empty data array
- Series may have null values during warm-up periods for computed sub-series

## How this service works

PBoC Total Assets (USD) ($0.05): People's Bank of China total assets converted to USD.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a named time series with date-value pairs representing PBoC total assets in USD, along with metadata including data range, observation count, freshness status, last observation date, and pagination cursor. Optionally returns a statistical summary (mean, min, max, etc.) instead of raw data points.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "to": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "End date (YYYY-MM-DD)"
      },
      "from": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "Start date (YYYY-MM-DD)"
      },
      "after": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "Return points after this date (meta.pagination.cursor)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 500,
       "maximum": 10000,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Most data points to return, oldest first"
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "default": false,
       "description": "Return a statistical summary instead of the data points"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "oneOf": [
      {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "data",
        "meta"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "data": {
         "type": "object",
         "required": [
          "id",
          "name",
          "description",
          "category",
          "frequency",
          "data"
         ],
         "properties": {
          "id": {
           "type": "string"
          },
          "data": {
           "type": "array",
           "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
             "time",
             "value"
            ],
            "properties": {
             "time": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date",
              "example": "2026-02-14"
             },
             "value": {
              "type": [
               "number",
               "null"
              ],
              "example": 1.23,
              "description": "Null where the series has no value on that date (for example while a computed series warms up)."
             }
            }
           }
          
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```

## More

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