# ShadowQuant Intelligence API – Market Context

> ShadowQuant Intelligence API – Market Context is a paid API for AI agents from sq-intel-x402.aries-lao.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Delivers validated equities and options market research data per-call, paid in USDC via x402 on Base, including provenance, methodology, freshness, and track record metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://sq-intel-x402.aries-lao.workers.dev/market-context?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shadowquant-intelligence-api-market-context-b5018d3b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_40yLP72-w2WL3ZMBhZCEt

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 shadowquant-intelligence-api-market-context-b5018d3b
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest ShadowQuant market context for AAPL — I want the validated research data including how fresh it is and what methodology was used.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs per-call, pay-as-you-go validated equities or options market research with explicit provenance, methodology, and freshness metadata — especially in agentic pipelines that require traceable, auditable research data rather than raw price feeds. Prefer it over generic market data APIs when the agent needs track-record and methodology context alongside the data itself, and when micro-payment per-call pricing (x402/USDC) is acceptable or preferred over subscription billing.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure — insufficient USDC balance or x402 handshake not completed, resulting in 402 Payment Required
- Stale data — freshness.stale flag is true, meaning the research payload may be outdated for fast-moving markets
- Ticker not found or unsupported symbol — endpoint may return an error or empty data payload
- Rate limiting or Cloudflare Worker quota exceeded — 429 or 503 response
- Network timeout from Cloudflare Worker — transient 5xx error

## How this service works

Validated equities/options market research for AI agents, paid per-call via x402 (USDC on Base). Research data, not investment advice.

## Output

A JSON envelope containing: a `data` field with the market study payload, a `provenance` object (producer, methodology, generated_at, freshness with age_hours and stale flag, track_record), a disclaimer string, and terms of use. Each call costs $0.005 USDC charged via x402 on Base.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "description": "JSON envelope: { data: <study payload>, provenance: { producer, methodology, generated_at, freshness: { age_hours, stale }, track_record }, disclaimer, terms }"
}
```

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