Straits.live premium data

Is the Strait of Hormuz open? Effectively no, it is closed to commercial shipping as of 8 August 2026. 2 ships transited on August 2 vs ~73/day normal. Brent $82.27. Status and price update every 5 minutes.

DataLiveeip155:8453Exactvia cdp
MaritimeShippingHormuzVesselsSanctions
Calls · 30d
37↑ 1.9%
This endpoint's own trailing-30-day call count, as published by the upstream catalog and snapshotted daily. 32 snapshots so far.
$1.99
Verified settled volume
116 settlements proven x402 by their on-chain EIP-3009 marker.
$0.020
Listed price
As published in the catalog. Always read the live 402 before paying.
32
Calls · 30d
Upstream's own call count for this endpoint, not ours.
2
Unique payers · 30d
Last called 2026-09-22 01:06Z
Upstream on-chain volume
Reported by the source catalog.
Paid to
0x1B24dEAc0951EFCD6923f684b574Fe9a4202Cf1f

The wallet the 402 directs payment to. Its whole payment record — every payer, every chain — is on the merchant page.

Asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913

Provider

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.

{
  "mcp": "https://straits.live/api/mcp",
  "docs": "https://straits.live/api#premium",
  "asset": "USDC",
  "error": "payment_required",
  "price": "$0.02",
  "message": "Machine-payable endpoint: $0.02 per request, settled in USDC on Base over the x402 protocol. The signed challenge is in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED response header; x402-capable clients (@x402/fetch, @x402/mcp, the LangChain and CrewAI payment adapters) pay and retry automatically.",
  "network": "eip155:8453",
  "openapi": "https://straits.live/openapi.json"
}

Accepts

The payment requirements as published to the catalog. Read the live 402 before paying — a price here is a claim, not a quote.

0.02USDC≈ $0.02 USD
on Base · exact scheme

Pay 0.02 USDC on Base to 0x1B24…2Cf1f. The signed payment is good for 5 minutes.

USD Coin contract
0x8335…02913
Payment window
5 minutes
As published
20000 smallest units
The catalog’s raw entry
[
  {
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "extra": {
      "name": "USD Coin",
      "version": "2"
    },
    "payTo": "0x1B24dEAc0951EFCD6923f684b574Fe9a4202Cf1f",
    "amount": "20000",
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
  }
]

Extensions

{
  "bazaar": {
    "info": {
      "input": {
        "type": "http",
        "method": "GET",
        "queryParams": {}
      },
      "output": {
        "type": "json",
        "example": {
          "ais": {
            "note": null,
            "source": "live",
            "trusted": true,
            "positions": []
          },
          "schema": "https://straits.live/api/premium/vessels",
          "manifest": {
            "count": 1449,
            "source": "vesselTracker (live AIS, MMSI-keyed; flag derived from MMSI MID; imo/callSign/dimensions resolved by MMSI where available). imoInvalid = a broadcast IMO that fails its check digit (likely spoofed). Population = vessels with a sighting in the last activeWindowHours hours (a concurrent snapshot, not a union over a longer window).",
            "vessels": [],
            "imoSpoofed": 8,
            "imoResolved": 620,
            "activeWindowHours": 0.5
          },
          "darkFleet": [],
          "riskBands": {
            "byImo": {},
            "byMmsi": {}
          },
          "sanctionedInStrait": {
            "count": 29,
            "vessels": []
          },
          "sanctionsReference": {
            "uk": 656,
            "ofac": 1517
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
      "required": [
        "input"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "input": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type",
            "method"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string",
              "const": "http"
            },
            "method": {
              "enum": [
                "GET"
              ],
              "type": "string"
            },
            "queryParams": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {}
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "output": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "example": {
              "type": "object"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Provenance

Seen in the source catalog
2026-09-22 01:06Z
Last indexed by Roundhouse
2026-09-24 15:30Z
Last enriched (probe, favicon, geo)
2026-09-20 05:45Z
x402 version
2
Max timeout
300s
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.

Open skill.md
Show the prompt
Using Roundhouse, look up the x402 service Straits.live premium 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=Straits.live%20premium%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://straits.live/api/premium/vessels, 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. Mint a personal key for $0.01 at GET https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/test/x402,
or use an organization key from https://roundhouseai.io/dashboard/team.

If you do not have Roundhouse tools or skills installed, read
https://roundhouseai.io/skill.md first — it is the whole procedure.