Kristo Intelligence — DeFi Signals API on Base
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[Kristo Intelligence MCP server]
Paid DeFi market intelligence for AI agents. x402-native: agents pay per
call in USDC, from $0.003 — no signup, no API keys, no subscriptions.
Live API: https://kristo-intelligence-api.onrender.com
Marketplace listing (settlement-verified): https://payapi.market/api/kristo-intelligence-defi-signals-api
What it is
Kristo Intelligence is a live trading-agent API on the Base network (Coinbase's
L2). Every call returns machine-readable market intelligence:
- Trading-agent signals — for ETH, ONDO, KAITO and DEGEN: action,
0–1 confidence score, current USD price, and one-line reasoning
- Whale flow — large USDC transfer tracking on Base (transfers ≥ $5M, labeled counterparties)
- Arbitrage radar — cross-DEX spreads, refreshed every 60 seconds
- Rug-risk checks — pre-trade safety screening
- Market stats — aggregated activity (CoinGecko, DEXScreener,
Fear & Greed)
Payment (x402)
The API speaks the x402 payment standard. The
flow is three steps and works from any HTTP client:
GET any paid endpoint → HTTP 402 with a self-describing challenge
(exact USDC amount, receiver address, chain)
- Send that USDC amount on Base to the listed receiver
- Retry the call with the payment header →
200 with your data
No keys. No accounts. Settled in USDC on Base (chain 8453). Prices start at
$0.003 per call — the complete list is below.
Two payment rails
Prefer rail 1: it is what the x402 ecosystem (x402-fetch, x402scan,
facilitators) speaks.
- Rail 1 — standard x402. The 402 carries the canonical
PAYMENT-REQUIRED
header (base64) and a body whose accepts[0] states the exact atomic amount,
payTo, asset and CAIP-2 network for that route. Sign an EIP-3009
transferWithAuthorization for that amount (scheme exact) and retry the same
request with the payload base64url-encoded in the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE
header. Settlement runs through the facilitator automatically. Clients still
on x402 v1 send the same payload in X-PAYMENT; both are accepted, and
PAYMENT-SIGNATURE wins when both are present.
- Rail 2 — manual fallback. Send the atomic amount yourself: take
accepts[0].amount from the 402 body verbatim — "5000" means 0.005 USDC —
transfer that many base units of USDC on Base (chain 8453), wait for 12
confirmations (~24s), then retry with X-Payment-Proof: base64url(JSON({payer, transaction_hash, amount_usdc})), whose amount_usdc
is the same atomic value. If your wallet API wants a decimal amount, divide by
1e6 first. Do not send the decimal display price as if it were base
units: the on-chain check is amount >= price, so a 1,000,000× overpayment is
accepted rather than rejected. The 402 is the only authoritative amount, and
the kristo-x402-client does this conversion for you.
A signed payload is single-use. HTTP 425 means your payment already settled
on-chain but our node has not reached the confirming block yet — retry the same
request shortly and do not pay again. HTTP 401 means a credential was
presented but is unusable (bad signature, wrong amount or receiver, expired
authorization window, or an already-used transaction).
Prices
These six routes are the complete paid surface. The table is checked against the
live price map by tests/test_visibility_seo.py, so the README cannot drift away
from the amounts the 402 challenges actually demand:
Every one of them has a free /sample twin returning the real response
shape with example data — see the discovery list below. Try the shape before
spending anything.
[x402 Trust: grade B, recommendation proceed]
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
The API is exposed as an MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue,
LangChain and any MCP-compatible client:
- SSE transport:
https://kristo-intelligence-api.onrender.com/mcp/sse
- Streamable HTTP transport:
POST https://kristo-intelligence-api.onrender.com/mcp
(JSON-RPC 2.0 — initialize, tools/list, tools/call, ping)
MCP tools:
Each tool advertises its x402 price inline, so an agent can decide and pay
without reading docs.
Discover via PayAPI
The listing lives on PayAPI Market
and can be discovered through PayAPI's own MCP server — agents already
connected to the marketplace warehouse will find our routes from both sides:
Listing: https://payapi.market/api/kristo-intelligence-defi-signals-api
Try it — one command
The public reference client walks the full payment path (discovery → 402
challenge → paid retry) with no wallet required in demo mode:
Free discovery surfaces (no payment needed):
- x402 discovery:
/.well-known/x402
- OpenAPI 3.0:
/openapi.json
- MCP manifest:
/api/mcp/manifest
- Agent manifest:
/agents.json
- LLM-friendly API description:
/llms.txt
- Quickstart snippets (curl/Python/Node):
/api/v1/quickstart
- Checkable facts (status, uptime, on-chain history):
/validation
- Health:
/health
A free sample of every paid route — real response shape, example data, no
payment and no signup. Use these to build and test a client before spending
anything:
Repository layout
Verification
- Settlement-verified on PayAPI Market:
4 independent paid canaries settled on-chain, zero payment incidents
- x402 registered: 11 resources on x402scan,
canonical v2 challenges (CAIP-2
eip155:8453, atomic units, bazaar schema)
- 23/23 adversarial audit (mystery-agent simulation, 2026-08-29 — a dated
snapshot; see the banner in
docs/MYSTERY_AGENT_REPORT.md)
- 655 automated tests in this repository
Docs
docs/MARKET_WRITEUP.md — on-chain audit of the machine-payments market
docs/PAYER_ORIGIN.md — who actually pays on this market
docs/MYSTERY_AGENT_REPORT.md — adversarial buyer simulation (2026-08-29;
its two price figures and its "standard rail not honoured" note are
superseded — the file opens with a banner saying exactly what changed)
docs/RECON_FINDINGS.md — ongoing on-chain recon notes
License
MIT — the full standard text is in LICENSE.
The payment receiver and endpoint structure are stable invariants — discovery
surfaces and integrations depend on them.
Commercial use notice
This software executes real financial transactions on the Base blockchain
network when AGENT_AUTO_EXECUTE=true. The authors and copyright holders
assume no responsibility for financial losses resulting from the use of this
software. Always test on Base Sepolia testnet before mainnet deployment.