# VIBE Top Picks — Smart Money Perps Radar (Lite)

> VIBE Top Picks — Smart Money Perps Radar (Lite) is a paid API for AI agents from api.vibe.airforce, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the top ~20 AI-verified smart money perpetual futures tokens ranked by conviction, with per-cohort LONG/SHORT summaries, updated every 30 minutes.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.vibe.airforce/api/x402/alpha/top-perps-lite
- Price: $0.05/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-smart-money-perps-radar-lite-b4099317
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Z-5N-35AmiBJMgOpaSHHL

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-smart-money-perps-radar-lite-b4099317
```

Example prompt: What are the top smart money perpetuals right now? Pull the latest VIBE perps radar — I want to see the highest-conviction long and short tokens with their net flows and funding rates.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, pre-scored, ready-to-consume snapshot of smart money conviction in perpetual futures markets without building your own signal pipeline. It is ideal for 30-minute polling agents, pre-trade checks, or daily briefings where you want AI-ranked conviction scores and net flow data across both LONG and SHORT cohorts. Prefer the full (non-lite) endpoint if you need the complete 6-dimension sub-scores and one-sentence thesis per token.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure — insufficient USDC balance or failed EIP-3009 authorization returns a 402 error
- Stale data — if the 30-minute refresh cycle has not yet completed, the returned updated_at may be up to 30 minutes old
- Empty token list — if smart money signal is insufficient, tokens array may be sparse or empty
- Network/gateway errors on Base blockchain may delay payment confirmation
- success: false returned if the radar payload could not be served despite payment

## 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

A JSON payload containing: (1) a tokens array of the top ~20 perpetuals ranked by AI-derived conviction score, each with symbol, side (LONG/SHORT), rank, conviction score, net smart money flow, funding rate, mark price, and 24h delta; (2) a summary array broken down by LONG/SHORT cohort showing chain, average conviction, total flow, funding direction, and token count; and (3) metadata including the timestamp, source, price paid in USDC, payment transaction hash, buyer address, and 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",
       "description": "tokens[] (top ~20 by conviction: symbol, side, rank, conviction, net_flow, funding, mark_price, delta_24h) and summary[] (per LONG/SHORT cohort: chain, side, avg_conviction, total_flow, funding_direction, tokens count)"
      },
      "meta": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Response metadata: updated_at, source, price_usdc"
      },
      "success": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "True when the radar payload was served"
      },
      "tx_hash": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "EIP-3009 payment transaction hash on Base"
      },
      "amount_paid": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Amount paid for this request in USDC"
      },
      "payment_mode": {
       "enum": [
        "x402",
        "credit"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How this request was paid: x402 (on-chain) or credit (API key)"
      },
      "buyer_address": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Ethereum address that paid for this request"
      }
     },
     "description": "Compact smart-money perp radar for 30-min polling agents — top ~20 tokens by conviction plus per-cohort summary"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "description": "Compact smart-money perp radar for 30-min polling agents — top ~20 tokens by conviction plus per-cohort summary"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vibe-top-picks-smart-money-perps-radar-lite-b4099317/health.json
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