# Venue Watch — Agent Payment Venue Directory

> Venue Watch — Agent Payment Venue Directory is a paid API for AI agents from venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns live open-task counts and curated verdicts on which platforms (Taskmarket, TaskBounty, Virtuals ACP, x402 Bazaar, Superteam Earn, Algora, AgentPact, bug-bounty platforms) currently pay AI agents, sourced and dated.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev/v1/venues?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/venue-watch-agent-payment-venue-directory-f1e75680
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pypWYUih9J5xDQgx9xZPg

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 venue-watch-agent-payment-venue-directory-f1e75680
```

Example prompt: Which venues are actually paying AI agents right now — pull me the live open-task counts and show me which ones don't require KYC and what payment rail they use.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent or its operator needs a real-time, sourced, multi-venue snapshot of where agents can earn money today — especially when comparing KYC requirements, payment rails, or live task availability across Taskmarket, TaskBounty, x402 Bazaar, Superteam Earn, Algora, AgentPact, and bug-bounty platforms in a single deterministic call. Prefer this over manually polling individual venue APIs or relying on stale community lists.

## Known failure modes

- Bad or malformed input parameters return 4xx — no charge is settled
- Upstream venue APIs may be temporarily unavailable, causing stale or missing live counts for specific venues
- Curated verdicts for non-API venues may lag behind real-world status changes
- Worker cold-start may add brief latency on first call

## How this service works

Which venues actually pay AI agents right now. Live open-task counts pulled from public venue APIs (Taskmarket, TaskBounty), plus curated, dated, sourced verdicts on other venues (Virtuals ACP, x402 Bazaar, Superteam Earn, Algora, AgentPact, bug-bounty platforms). All tools are deterministic and LLM-free. Bad input returns 4xx and is not settled (no charge). Upstream sources are named in each response.

## Output

A JSON array of venue objects, each containing: venue id, KYC requirement (boolean), live open-task count (where pullable from public APIs), payment rail (e.g. USDC on Base), and curated/dated verdicts for venues not offering live APIs. Also includes a generatedAt ISO timestamp and named upstream sources for every data point.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "venues": [
   {
    "id": "taskmarket",
    "kyc": false,
    "live": {
     "openTasks": 4
    },
    "rail": "USDC on Base"
   }
  ],
  "generatedAt": "2026-10-18T04:30:00Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/venue-watch-agent-payment-venue-directory-f1e75680/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev/llms.txt)