# MCX Ventures Custom Network Forensics Scan

> MCX Ventures Custom Network Forensics Scan is a paid API for AI agents from api.mcx-ventures.com, paid per call via x402, $1.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Runs a six-check network forensics scan (TLS, DNS, CT, NTP, portal, and more) against 1–8 buyer-specified public hostnames or IPs, rejecting private/reserved addresses, with the result hash anchored on-chain to Base.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.mcx-ventures.com/v2/forensics/custom
- Price: $1.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcx-ventures-custom-network-forensics-scan-facdb612
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NiBgQZ0o_6LJzfus3__Ge

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 mcx-ventures-custom-network-forensics-scan-facdb612 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Run a full six-check network forensics scan on these three hosts — api.example.com, 203.0.113.45, and db.example.com — and anchor the results on-chain.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to run the same six-check network forensics suite against a custom set of 1–8 public hosts or IPs that you specify at call time — rather than a fixed canonical target basket. Ideal when auditing your own infrastructure, vetting third-party vendors, or investigating specific IPs during incident response, especially when tamper-evident on-chain anchoring of results is required.

## Known failure modes

- Private, loopback, or reserved IP addresses in the target list cause request rejection
- Submitting more than 8 or fewer than 1 target returns a validation error
- Malformed hostnames or unresolvable domains may produce per-target check failures
- Network timeouts on individual checks may yield partial results for affected targets
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance prevents execution

## How this service works

Six-check network forensics scan against 1-8 buyer-supplied public hosts/IPs. Same checks as the fixed basket. Private and reserved addresses are rejected. Result hash anchored on-chain to Base.

## Output

A structured forensics report covering six network checks (TLS, DNS, certificate transparency, NTP, portal, and an additional check) for each submitted host or IP, along with a cryptographic hash of the result anchored on-chain to the Base blockchain for tamper-evident provenance.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "targets"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "targets": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       },
       "maxItems": 8,
       "minItems": 1,
       "description": "1-8 public hostnames or public IPv4/IPv6 addresses. Private, loopback, and reserved ranges are rejected."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcx-ventures-custom-network-forensics-scan-facdb612/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mcx-ventures.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mcx-ventures.com/llms.txt)