# X402 Hub Crypto News API (Endpoint 16)

> X402 Hub Crypto News API (Endpoint 16) is a paid API for AI agents from x402-hub.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.146272/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches cryptocurrency news articles or data based on a text query, gated by x402 micropayment on Base

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402-hub.vercel.app/api/crypto-news16
- Price: $0.146272/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-hub-crypto-news-api-endpoint-16-d90d6371
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZyWeQFjy1jB3CTWFYqaLk

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-hub-crypto-news-api-endpoint-16-d90d6371 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search for the latest news about Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions using the crypto news API?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need on-demand crypto-specific news retrieval gated by a pay-per-call micropayment model on Base, and you want to avoid subscription overhead. Best for agents that only occasionally need crypto news and benefit from the x402 per-call pricing model rather than a monthly API plan.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not fulfilled — 402 response if x402 micropayment is not attached
- Empty or vague query returns low-relevance results
- Upstream news API outage yields empty or error data object
- Malformed query string may result in no matches
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion on upstream provider

## How this service works

63 paid API endpoints protected by x402 micropayments on Base

## Output

Returns a data object containing news results from an upstream crypto news API — typically including article titles, summaries, sources, and publication metadata relevant to the submitted query string.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Query parameter for the API"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Response data from upstream API"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-hub-crypto-news-api-endpoint-16-d90d6371/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-hub.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-hub.vercel.app/llms.txt)