Saylor Innovations On-Chain Data
Arbitrum block by number or latest - hash, time, transaction count, gas used, base fee and miner
The wallet the 402 directs payment to. Its whole payment record — every payer, every chain — is on the merchant page.
Asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913
The payTo wallet does not resolve to a registered ERC-8004 agent. That is not a verdict on the service — most of the catalog is unregistered.
Live 402 challenge
Captured by the enrichment pass, not read just now. Prices can change — always read the 402 the endpoint answers with.
{
"error": "Payment required to access this resource.",
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"name": "USD Coin",
"note": "Base settles through an x402 facilitator. Send payload.signature and payload.authorization (EIP-3009); there is no self-submitted path on this network.",
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"note": "Native SOL: send lamports with a system transfer, not an SPL transfer. Price is quoted live and this quote expires in 120s.",
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"tokenCount": null,
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"instructions": "STANDARD PATH (works with stock x402 clients): send payload.transaction — a base64 partially-signed Solana transaction — and we route verify/settle through an x402 facilitator that sponsors the fee and submits it. Include the chosen accepts entry as \"accepted\" so we can match terms. ALTERNATIVE PATH (no facilitator): Pick ONE entry from accepts and use the reference and session from THAT entry — each asset has its own. USDC or USDT: send an SPL transfer of the exact amount. Native SOL (asset=So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112, extra.native=true): send that many lamports with a system transfer. Either way include extra.reference as a read-only account (Solana Pay style), then retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: base64({x402Version:2, payload:{session, reference}}). If your client cannot attach a reference, send payload.signature instead (USDC only). SOL amounts are quoted live and expire in 120s; stablecoins do not move. The facilitator path verifies and settles in this request. Only the alternative self-submitted Solana path needs retries while the transfer is indexed (typically 3-4 attempts over 10-20s). On that path, a 402 saying \"payment not found on-chain yet\" means keep retrying.",
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The payment requirements as published to the catalog. Read the live 402 before paying — a price here is a claim, not a quote.
Pay 0.01 USDC on Base to 0xA2A8…fc8aa. The signed payment is good for 2 minutes.
- Paid to
- 0xA2A8…fc8aa
- USD Coin contract
- 0x8335…02913
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
- As published
- 10000 smallest units
That figure is in the token’s smallest units. Roundhouse does not hold this contract’s decimals, so it is shown as published rather than converted.
- Paid to
- 0xA2A8…fc8aa
- Token contract
- 0x3c49…c3359
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
That figure is in the token’s smallest units. Roundhouse does not hold this contract’s decimals, so it is shown as published rather than converted.
- Paid to
- 0xA2A8…fc8aa
- Token contract
- 0xaf88…e5831
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
That figure is in the token’s smallest units. Roundhouse does not hold this contract’s decimals, so it is shown as published rather than converted.
- Paid to
- 7LSjfr…Xacy7
- Token contract
- EPjFWd…TDt1v
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
That figure is in the token’s smallest units. Roundhouse does not hold this contract’s decimals, so it is shown as published rather than converted.
- Paid to
- 7LSjfr…Xacy7
- Token contract
- Es9vMF…nwNYB
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
That figure is in the token’s smallest units. Roundhouse does not hold this contract’s decimals, so it is shown as published rather than converted.
- Paid to
- 7LSjfr…Xacy7
- Token contract
- So1111…11112
- Payment window
- 2 minutes
The catalog’s raw entry
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}Provenance
- Seen in the source catalog
- 2026-10-20 14:46Z
- Last indexed by Roundhouse
- 2026-10-26 15:00Z
- Last enriched (probe, favicon, geo)
- 2026-09-24 17:45Z
- x402 version
- 2
- Max timeout
- 120s
- Liveness probe
- HTTP 402
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Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, an MCP client or your own agent — it will vet this service and call it over the free read API. No key, no account.
GET api.roundhouseai.io/v0/endpoints
This endpoint's own trailing-30-day call count, as published by the upstream catalog and snapshotted daily. 32 snapshots so far. Verified volume counts only settlements with an on-chain EIP-3009 marker.
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Using Roundhouse, look up the x402 service Saylor Innovations On-Chain Data and tell me whether it is worth paying: what a call costs, whether the endpoint answered when last probed, and what its payment record actually shows. curl -s 'https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/endpoints?q=Saylor%20Innovations%20On-Chain%20Data' curl -s 'https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/merchants/<the payTo wallet returned above>' Then call it: read the price from the live 402 at https://saylorinnovations.com/api/evm/arbitrum/block/latest, never from a cached figure, and pay with an x402 client. The /v0 API needs an API key (`authorization: Bearer rh_live_…`) on everything except /v0/unified* and /v0/endpoints. Either pay over x402 (mint a personal key for $0.01 at GET https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/test/x402), or ask me for an organization key, which I create at https://roundhouseai.io/dashboard/connections. If you have neither, ask before going further. If you do not have Roundhouse tools or skills installed, read https://roundhouseai.io/skill.md first — it is the whole procedure.