Get the current MINA token price via x402 micropayment on Base for $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint returns the current price of the MINA token (Mina Protocol's native cryptocurrency) in a pay-per-call model using the x402 protocol. It is hosted on lowpaymentfee.com, a platform that offers a broad catalog of data, AI, finance, and utility APIs — all priced at $0.02 per request and settled in USDC on the Base network.
The specific endpoint `/api/v1/tokens/MINA/price` is part of the Finance & Web3 category on the platform. Payment is handled via the x402 exact-payment scheme: callers attach an `X-PAYMENT` header with a signed USDC payment of up to 20,000 base units (i.e., $0.02, since USDC uses 6 decimals). No API keys or accounts are required — access is granted per-request upon valid payment. The response MIME type is `application/json`.
The platform advertises no rate limits and no minimum commitments. Documentation pages exist at `/docs`, `/pricing`, and `/api`, but at crawl time they rendered only a wallet-connect prompt with no substantive content. As a result, the exact response schema (e.g., which fields are returned for a token price query) is not documented and must be inferred from the endpoint path and category. The endpoint is confirmed live: it returns a well-formed x402 version-1 challenge with a 402 status code.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching the current MINA token price for portfolio tracking or trading bots
- —Integrating real-time MINA pricing into a DeFi dashboard
- —Agent-driven price checks before executing on-chain swaps involving MINA
- —Comparing MINA price across multiple data sources for arbitrage detection
Fit
Best for
- —Developers needing a simple, keyless MINA price endpoint
- —AI agents that can pay per-call via x402 on Base
- —Low-volume or sporadic price lookups where $0.02/call is cost-effective
Not for
- —High-frequency trading requiring sub-second latency and bulk pricing (no documented batch endpoint)
- —Users who need historical OHLCV or candlestick data (only current price is indicated)
- —Consumers without a Base-network USDC wallet to settle payments
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/tokens/MINA/price \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-signed-payment-header>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is confirmed live with a valid x402 challenge, and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base). However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no documented response format, and all documentation pages returned only a wallet-connect stub with no useful content. The response body structure must be entirely inferred.
Warnings
- —No response schema or example response is documented anywhere — the exact JSON structure returned is unknown.
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /api, /README) all render only a wallet-connect prompt with no substantive content.
- —The platform lists many diverse API categories (AI, analytics, geocoding, finance) all at the same $0.02 price, which may indicate a generic or thin wrapper rather than a deep data source.
- —No information about data source, update frequency, or accuracy of the MINA price feed is available.
Citations
- —The endpoint returns HTTP 402 with an x402 version 1 challenge requiring USDC payment on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/tokens/MINA/price
- —maxAmountRequired is 20000 base units of USDC (asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913), which equals $0.02https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/tokens/MINA/price
- —The platform advertises $0.02/request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The token price endpoint falls under the Finance & Web3 category on the platformhttps://lowpaymentfee.com