# VIX Institutional vs Leverage Divergence Intelligence

> VIX Institutional vs Leverage Divergence Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-17).

Returns evidence-backed analysis of divergence between institutional positioning and leveraged-fund positioning in VIX, with provenance and risk context.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/vix-institutional-leverage-divergence
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vix-institutional-vs-leverage-divergence-intelligence-bd5b008a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RaoX3jl2-z8C1g7GECB9R

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 vix-institutional-vs-leverage-divergence-intelligence-bd5b008a
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Edge Agents VIX institutional vs leverage divergence report — I need to see whether institutional investors and leveraged funds are moving in opposite directions right now, with confidence levels and sourcing.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need point-in-time evidence of divergence between institutional (asset manager) and leveraged-fund positioning on VIX, with signed provenance and explicit contradiction/limitation disclosure. Prefer it over generic volatility data feeds when you need audit-ready sourcing, a bounded analysis suitable for board or CFO consumption, or when an autonomous agent needs machine-readable confidence scores alongside human-readable summaries.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed — HTTP 402 returned if USDC payment is missing or insufficient
- Data temporarily unavailable — dataStatus field may reflect incomplete or stale data
- Low confidence result — quality.confidence field may return 'low' if evidence is thin
- Source freshness issues — limitations array will note any coverage gaps
- Service unreachable — network timeout or 5xx if upstream data providers are down

## How this service works

Compares CFTC asset-manager and leveraged-fund net positioning in VIX on the same weekly report and open-interest basis. Purpose: Identify whether asset managers and leveraged funds are aligned or materially divergent in VIX positioning while preserving both classifications separately. 168-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

A JSON object containing: a quality block (status and confidence rating), an analysis block (asset family, intent tags, and a plain-English summary of findings), an evidence block (assets covered, policy, and source attribution), a signed provenance record from edge-agents.ai, a generatedAt timestamp, a dataStatus flag, schema version, and standard market research disclaimers and limitations.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "equities",
   "intents": [
    "risk",
    "leverage",
    "volatility",
    "anomaly",
    "evidence",
    "institutional",
    "positioning",
    "open-interest",
    "leveraged-funds",
    "asset-manager",
    "equities"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh VIX Institutional vs Leverage Divergence findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "VIX"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "vix-institutional-leverage-divergence",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

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