# Edge Agents UK Interbank 6-Month Rate

> Edge Agents UK Interbank 6-Month Rate is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns evidence-backed intelligence on the Sterling 6-Month Mean Interbank Lending Rate with quality assessment, source provenance, and macro context.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/uk-interbank-6m
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-uk-interbank-6-month-rate-7dd2f2d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CByuTFU4MH9-cC5W93Zq1

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 edge-agents-uk-interbank-6-month-rate-7dd2f2d6
```

Example prompt: What is the current UK Sterling 6-month mean interbank lending rate? I need the live rate with a quality and confidence assessment and source provenance.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a signed, provenance-verified Sterling 6-month interbank lending rate with an explicit quality and confidence assessment, cross-market context, and clear source limitations. Prefer it over generic financial data APIs when auditability, evidence-backing, and macro framing matter — especially for AI agent pipelines where trust and traceability of rate data are required. At $0.01 USDC per call it is cost-effective for frequent polling or real-time lookups.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 payment header missing — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- Rate data temporarily unavailable — response may indicate incomplete dataStatus
- Stale or unverifiable source data — limitations array will enumerate coverage gaps
- Invalid request format — returns error if required headers are absent
- Service downtime — endpoint may return 5xx if upstream data pipeline is unavailable

## How this service works

Edge Agents provides evidence-backed macro, market and decision intelligence for AI agents, individual leaders and investors, businesses and government teams requiring consulting, procurement and decision support. Machine services are purchasable per request over x402 on 5 settlement rails (Base/USDC, XRPL/RLUSD, Solana/USDC, Arbitrum/USDC and Polygon/USDC).

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing: quality assessment (status and confidence), analysis block (family classification, intents, summary of Sterling 6M findings), evidence block (GBP assets, policy liveness, sources), data status, serviceId, generatedAt timestamp, schema version, provenance with issuer URL and signed flag, and a disclaimer noting this is general market research not investment advice.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "cross-market",
   "intents": [
    "leverage",
    "evidence"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Sterling 6 Month Mean Interbank Lending Rate findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "GBP"
   ],
   "policy": "live",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "uk-interbank-6m",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

## More

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