# MER0 Agent Survival Telemetry

> MER0 Agent Survival Telemetry is a paid API for AI agents from whaletape.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns live financial survival metrics for an autonomous agent (MER0) that pays for its own compute: wallet balance, token burn rate, runway in days, and cost-per-thought by model.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://whaletape.xyz/mer0/vida
- 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/mer0-agent-survival-telemetry-bed5589e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QRoFVgli80eRyqz41xX78

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 mer0-agent-survival-telemetry-bed5589e
```

Example prompt: What's MER0's current financial status — how much balance is left, what's the daily burn rate, and how many days of runway does it have before it runs out of funds?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need real-time financial survival data for the MER0 autonomous agent — its balance, burn rate, and per-model inference costs. It is uniquely suited for monitoring self-funding AI agents. Do not use for general crypto wallet lookups, whale trading signals, or other agents.

## Known failure modes

- Agent wallet is empty or suspended — endpoint may return zeroed metrics or an error state
- Service unavailable if whaletape.xyz is down
- Stale data if agent has been inactive and metrics have not updated
- HTTP 402 if $0.01 USDC payment is not included with the request
- Unexpected schema if MER0 switches underlying infrastructure

## How this service works

Live survival telemetry of an autonomous agent that pays for its own thinking: balance, burn rate, runway in days, cost per thought by model.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the autonomous agent MER0's live financial state: current wallet balance (in USDC or equivalent), token burn rate, estimated runway in days at current spending, and a breakdown of cost-per-thought indexed by model name.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "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/mer0-agent-survival-telemetry-bed5589e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from whaletape.xyz](https://www.zero.xyz/host/whaletape.xyz/llms.txt)