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Otto AI Base Chain Status
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Otto AI Base Chain Status is a paid API for AI agents from x402.ottoai.services, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns the four key block heads on Base (latest, safe, L1-finalized, pending Flashblocks) with base fee, congestion level, block age, and finality lag metrics.
Price / call$0.001
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Base chain status from Otto's own RPC: the four heads an agent needs before it acts — latest (~2s soft), safe, L1-finalized and the pending Flashblocks preconfirmation head — with base fee (wei+gwei), congestion, block age and the finality lag between them. Makes the Base pending-vs-latest gap explicit. Flat JSON, refreshed every minute, honest staleness meta. Base chain status, block height, base fee, finality, chain health. $0.001 per call.
Output
A flat JSON object with four block head objects (latest, safe, finalized, pending), each containing block number, ISO timestamp, Unix timestamp, gas used ratio, base fee in wei and gwei. Top-level fields include chain name, chain ID, congestion label (e.g. 'low'), block age in seconds, finality lag in seconds and blocks, pending lead blocks, a human-readable finality note, and a meta object with staleness info and degraded flag.
Example use cases
Pre-trade gas check for DeFi bot
“Before I submit this swap on Base, check what the current base fee is and whether the network is congested — I only want to transact if gas is low.”
Finality lag monitor for bridge withdrawal
“I'm waiting for a bridge withdrawal from Base to Ethereum — tell me how far behind the L1-finalized block is from the latest block right now so I know how long to expect.”
Chain health dashboard for agentic DeFi system
“Pull the current Base chain status for my dashboard — I need the latest block number, block age, congestion level, and the finality lag in both seconds and blocks.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://x402.ottoai.services/chain-statusWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a single, pre-parsed snapshot of all four Base block heads simultaneously — especially when you need to compare latest vs safe vs finalized vs pending in one call. Prefer over raw RPC eth_blockNumber calls when you need finality lag, congestion label, and Flashblocks pending head together without writing multi-call aggregation logic.
Side effects
- RPC unavailable: upstream Base RPC node unreachable, returns degraded flag in meta
- Stale data: cache not refreshed within expected window, stalenessSec elevated
- Invalid response: malformed JSON if Otto service is down
- Payment failure: x402 payment not accepted, returns 402 without data
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| properties | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"data": {
"safe": {
"blockNumber": 50738532,
"blockTimeIso": "2026-09-01T12:00:11.000Z",
"gasUsedRatio": 0.1893,
"blockTimestamp": 1788266411,
"baseFeePerGasWei": "5000000",
"baseFeePerGasGwei": 0.005
},
"chain": "base",
"latest": {
"blockNumber": 50738555,
"blockTimeIso": "2026-09-01T12:00:57.000Z",
"gasUsedRatio": 0.1088,
"blockTimestamp": 1788266457,
"baseFeePerGasWei": "5000000",
"baseFeePerGasGwei": 0.005
},
"chainId": 8453,
"pending": {
"note": "in-progress block (Flashblocks preconfirmation head); hash is not yet final",
"blockNumber": 50738556,
"blockTimeIso": "2026-09-01T12:00:59.000Z",
"gasUsedRatio": 0.0413,
"blockTimestamp": 1788266459,
"baseFeePerGasWei": "5000000",
"baseFeePerGasGwei": 0.005
},
"finalized": {
"blockNumber": 50738081,
"blockTimeIso": "2026-09-01T11:45:09.000Z",
"gasUsedRatio": 0.0825,
"blockTimestamp": 1788265509,
"baseFeePerGasWei": "5000000",
"baseFeePerGasGwei": 0.005
},
"congestion": "low",
"blockAgeSec": 3,
"generatedAt": "2026-09-01T12:01:00.000Z",
"finalityNote": "Base is an OP-Stack L2: ~2s soft-confirmed blocks (latest), L2-safe once the sequencer batch is submitted (safe), and L1-finalized after that batch is finalized on Ethereum (finalized, ~15 min behind). `pending` is the Flashblocks preconfirmation head.",
"finalityLagSec": 948,
"finalityLagBlocks": 474,
"pendingLeadBlocks": 1
},
"meta": {
"degraded": false,
"validUntil": "",
"generatedAt": "",
"stalenessSec": 0
},
"status": "success"
}
}Tags
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