# VIBE Top Picks — AI-Verified Smart Money Tokens (Performance Stats)

> VIBE Top Picks — AI-Verified Smart Money Tokens (Performance Stats) is a paid API for AI agents from api.vibe.airforce, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns historical performance statistics (hit rates and average forward returns) for each AI-assigned tier of crypto top picks across 1h, 6h, and 24h windows.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.vibe.airforce/api/x402/alpha/top-picks-performance
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vibe-top-picks-ai-verified-smart-money-tokens-performance-stats-a5b58b3d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AFCjTqDiCsCdChk-HOEbD

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 vibe-top-picks-ai-verified-smart-money-tokens-performance-stats-a5b58b3d
```

Example prompt: Show me the historical hit rates and average forward returns for VIBE's AI smart money token pick tiers — especially how the Strong Buy and Buy tiers have done over 1h, 6h, and 24h windows.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to evaluate the reliability and track record of VIBE's AI-generated crypto token recommendations before trusting them for trading decisions. It is the right choice when you want backtested tier-level statistics (hit rates, forward returns) rather than the live picks themselves. Prefer this over the top-picks endpoint when your goal is signal validation or building trust metrics rather than fetching actionable picks.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure: insufficient USDC balance or x402 payment not accepted — returns 402 Payment Required
- No data available: performance tracker may not have enough historical cycles yet — returns empty arrays
- Network/service downtime: api.vibe.airforce temporarily unavailable — returns 5xx error
- Malformed request: unexpected query parameters may be ignored or cause 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Top Picks: AI-verified smart money tokens every 30 min. 6-dimension scores, one-sentence thesis, smart money flow data. Plus 50+ crypto-data endpoints via x402 USDC on Base. No API keys, no accounts.

## Output

Returns an array of per-tier performance objects (Strong Buy, Buy, Watch, Weak, Skip), each with hit rate fraction, cycle count, and average 1h/6h/24h forward return percentages. Also includes a recent_cycles rollup summarizing weighted hit rates and average returns across time windows. Response includes payment metadata (tx_hash, amount_paid, buyer_address, payment_mode).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "data": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "data": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "recent_cycles": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
           "window": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Window label: 1h, 6h, or 24h"
           },
           "hit_rate": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Weighted hit rate across tiers"
           },
           "cycle_count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Total picks tracked in this window"
           },
           "avg_return_pct": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Weighted average forward return percentage"
           }
          },
          "description": "Per-window rollup across tiers"
         }
        },
        "tier_performance": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
           "tier": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Tier name (Strong Buy, Buy, Watch, Weak, Skip)"
           },
           "window": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Aggregation window (e.g. 24h)"
           },
           "hit_rate": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Fraction of picks with positive forward return"
           },
           "cycle_count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Number of picks/cycles contributing data"
           },
           "avg_return_1h_pct": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Average 1h forward return as percentage"
           },
           "avg_return_6h_pct": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Average 6h forward return as percentage"
           },
           "avg_return_24h_pct": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Average 24h forward return as percentage"
           }
          },
          "description": "One tier's performance"
         }
        }
       },
       "description": "Performance payload"
      },
      "meta": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Response metadata: updated_at, price_usdc"
      },
      "tx_h
… (truncated)
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "description": "Per-tier Top Picks performance — hit rates and average 1h/6h/24h forward returns across past cycles, updated by the 30-min Top Picks performance tracker"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vibe-top-picks-ai-verified-smart-money-tokens-performance-stats-a5b58b3d/health.json
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