# Solana Validator Identity/Vote-Account Lookup & Safe Validator Discovery

> Solana Validator Identity/Vote-Account Lookup & Safe Validator Discovery is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Resolves a Solana validator identity pubkey to its vote-account (or reverse), or returns the top-N lowest-risk safe validators by score

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/validator/lookup
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/solana-validator-identity-vote-account-lookup-safe-validator-discovery-9a49b994
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aH65bwCdnxOZUS7y-yCYP

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 solana-validator-identity-vote-account-lookup-safe-validator-discovery-9a49b994
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the vote account for the Solana validator with identity pubkey 7K8DVxtNJGnMtUY1CQJT5jcs8sFGSZTDiG7kowvFpECh, and also give me the top 5 lowest-risk safe validators I could stake with?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint as a cheap first-step lookup before running deeper validator vetting or risk analysis. Prefer it when you need to resolve a Solana validator identity pubkey to its vote-account (or vice versa), or when you need a shortlist of low-risk staking candidates without paying for a full validator risk report.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown pubkey — provided identity or vote-account does not match any known validator, returns empty or error response
- Invalid pubkey format — malformed base58 string returns a 400-level error
- top_n out of range — value below 1 or above 50 returns a validation error
- No parameters provided — requires at least one of vote, identity, or top_n

## How this service works

Resolve a Solana validator identity pubkey to its vote-account (or the reverse) and optionally get the top-N lowest-risk safe validators by score. Give vote or identity to resolve, or top_n for safe candidates. Cheap first step before validator/vet.

## Output

Returns the resolved counterpart pubkey (identity↔vote-account), and/or a ranked list of up to 50 top-N safest Solana validators with their associated risk scores, suitable for use as input to deeper validator vetting steps.

## 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",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "vote": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vote-account pubkey to resolve to its identity"
      },
      "top_n": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 50,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Return this many lowest-risk safe validators"
      },
      "identity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Node identity pubkey to resolve to its vote-account"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/solana-validator-identity-vote-account-lookup-safe-validator-discovery-9a49b994/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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