# x402-farm News Brief

> x402-farm News Brief is a paid API for AI agents from api.x-402.online, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Returns a concise news brief with a summary and sources for a given topic, accessible via pay-per-call x402 micropayment

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.x-402.online/v1/solve?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-farm-news-brief-54faddad
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RB25j0nYVtb0Fs-tnRu-f

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 x402-farm-news-brief-54faddad
```

Example prompt: Give me a quick news brief on the current state of AI regulation — just a short summary and the key sources behind it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, pre-summarized news brief on a specific topic without requiring an account or subscription — ideal for AI agents that need on-demand news digests with micropayment access via x402/USDC on Base, especially when integrating alongside other x402-farm data tools.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or malformed 'input' object returns a validation error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance results in a 402 response
- Ambiguous or very broad query may return a generic or low-quality summary
- If no relevant news is found, sources array may be empty
- High-latency upstream news aggregation may cause timeout

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object containing a capability field ('news_brief'), a result object with a brief summary text and an array of sources, and routing metadata including the provider path and latency in milliseconds.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "brief": {
    "summary": "…"
   },
   "sources": []
  },
  "routing": {
   "provider": "internal:/v1/brief",
   "latency_ms": 3800
  },
  "capability": "news_brief"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-farm-news-brief-54faddad/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.x-402.online](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.x-402.online/llms.txt)