# signals.edge.report Token Risk / Honeypot Checker

> signals.edge.report Token Risk / Honeypot Checker is a paid API for AI agents from signals.edge.report, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Checks an ERC20 token contract for honeypot status, buy/sell taxes, blacklist risk, owner powers, and returns a clear avoid|caution|ok verdict across major EVM chains.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://signals.edge.report/v1/token-risk?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/signals-edge-report-token-risk-honeypot-checker-ba9b629b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4pj3aEXdQjkZhnaESJaUi

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 signals-edge-report-token-risk-honeypot-checker-ba9b629b
```

Example prompt: Before I buy this token, can you check if contract 0x4ed4E862860beD51a9570b96d89aF5E1B0Efefed on Base is a honeypot — I want to know the buy/sell taxes, if the owner can blacklist wallets, and whether it's safe to proceed?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint whenever an AI agent or trading bot needs to vet an ERC20 token before executing a buy, swap, or token approval on Base, Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon. It is purpose-built for pre-trade honeypot and rug-pull screening, offering a single clear verdict rather than raw on-chain data, making it ideal for automated decision gates in DeFi workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-contract address returns an error or no-data response
- Unsupported chain identifier causes a bad request error
- Newly deployed contracts with no on-chain history may return incomplete analysis
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC payment is not included
- Network RPC errors may cause intermittent failures for specific chains

## How this service works

Edge Signals — primary: live gas fees for agents ($0.001). Also token-risk, wallet, news, Polymarket, funding at the same dust price. x402 USDC on Base.

## Output

Returns a structured risk report for the queried ERC20 contract including: is_honeypot boolean, buy tax percentage, sell tax percentage, blacklist risk indicator, owner privilege flags, and a top-level verdict of 'avoid', 'caution', or 'ok' to guide whether to proceed with a transaction.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "address"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "chain": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Chain: base (default), ethereum, bsc, arbitrum, optimism, polygon"
      },
      "address": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ERC20 token contract to risk-check"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "product": "edge-signals-token-risk",
  "summary": "OK — no critical honeypot/blacklist/sell-lock flags from scanner",
  "verdict": "ok"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/signals-edge-report-token-risk-honeypot-checker-ba9b629b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from signals.edge.report](https://www.zero.xyz/host/signals.edge.report/llms.txt)