Derived metrics: Ethereum gas price sampled continuously in the background and turned into rolling average, min/max, volatility, and trend direction over a window (?windowMinutes=, default 10) — none of which exist in the raw upstream feed's single instantaneous value.
# 1. Ask the endpoint what it costs (no payment, no wallet needed): curl -i -X GET 'https://lab.paidapis.net/api/gas-metrics' # -> HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required # the response carries the price, asset and pay-to address. # 2. Pay and retry with any x402 client: npx x402-fetch 'https://lab.paidapis.net/api/gas-metrics'
Endpoint: https://lab.paidapis.net/api/gas-metrics. Operated by lab.paidapis.net, not by Animica. Price and availability were correct at the last probe on 2026-10-01 and are set by the operator, who may change them.
Alerting: register a one-shot webhook that fires when Ethereum gas price crosses your threshold — the server pushes to you when it happens, instead of you polli…
Audit trail: a verifiable, timestamped log of past oracle attestations (?limit=, default 20). Each entry carries its own signature from the verify-tx endpoint; …
Batch task-runner: run up to 5 image-resize jobs in one paid call (?jobs=<JSON array of {url,width,height}>). Priced as the sum of each job's real output-megapi…
Bundle/all-access pass: one payment unlocks 2 minutes of free access to /api/bundle/market-snapshot, /api/bundle/normalized-gas, and /api/bundle/gas-metrics — i…
Enrichment: attaches real on-chain context to a bare address (contract vs EOA, native balance, transaction count, new-vs-active classification) — checkable fact…
Escrow-lite: payment settles immediately, like every other endpoint here — but the purchased resource is withheld until our oracle confirms your named release c…
Freshness-tiered pricing: gas price + ETH/USD price, same data either way. ?freshness=cached ($0.002) serves the last known values with no network call; ?freshn…
Cross-chain gas comparator: real, current gas price on Ethereum and Base side by side, with the delta and ratio between them, plus the estimated USD cost of a s…
Historical data export: raw Ethereum gas price samples over a date range (?from=, ?to=, ISO 8601, max 24h; ?format=json|csv). Priced at $0.0005/sample (min $0.0…
Insured data feed: pay a premium for an ETH/USD price snapshot (?premiumUsdc=, ?maxDeviationPct=, ?checkDelaySeconds=). If the real price has drifted more than …
Machine-to-machine invoicing: issue a signed invoice now (payerAddress, amountUsdc, optional lineItems/memo/dueBy); the payer settles it later at its own dynami…
Filtering: USDC on Base settles thousands of transfers a minute. This scans the raw feed and returns only transfers above a value threshold (?minUsd=, default $…