# Oblique Markets Crypto Price

> Oblique Markets Crypto Price is a paid API for AI agents from api.oblique.markets, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches real-time cryptocurrency price data for a given token or trading pair

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/crypto-price
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-crypto-price-9231ca8e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Bl1ugK4HUFfy6D_8NAkMb

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 oblique-markets-crypto-price-9231ca8e
```

Example prompt: What is the current real-time price of Bitcoin right now? Fetch it from Oblique Markets.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a real-time, low-latency cryptocurrency spot price and are operating within a micropayment-enabled (x402) agent workflow. Ideal for trading bots, portfolio trackers, and alert systems that need live data on demand rather than historical or aggregated data. Prefer this over Oblique's on-chain analytics endpoints when you only need a simple price quote rather than deep fundamental or whale-movement data.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported cryptocurrency symbol returns an error or empty result
- Network or upstream data feed latency causing stale or unavailable price
- Invalid query parameters result in a 400 bad request
- Payment not processed (x402 payment required error) if USDC micropayment fails
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded for high-frequency polling

## How this service works

Use when an agent needs a current USD price for a major token by symbol before quoting, converting or rebalancing. Returns Spot USD price for one crypto asset by ticker symbol, with 24h change, market cap and volume when the source reports them. $0.004.

## Output

Returns the current real-time market price for the specified cryptocurrency, likely including the price value, the token/pair identifier, and a timestamp or data freshness indicator.

## 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": {
      "symbol": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Single token symbol, e.g. ETH, BTC, SOL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "name": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "source": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "symbol": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "message": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "price_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "fetched_at": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "market_cap_usd": {
     "type": "null"
    },
    "volume_24h_usd": {
     "type": "null"
    },
    "change_24h_percent": {
     "type": "null"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "name": "ethereum",
  "source": "Coinbase",
  "symbol": "ETH",
  "message": "Crypto price via x402 protocol",
  "price_usd": 2512.555,
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-12T00:09:01.661Z",
  "market_cap_usd": null,
  "volume_24h_usd": null,
  "change_24h_percent": null
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-crypto-price-9231ca8e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.oblique.markets](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.oblique.markets/llms.txt)