AI agent that reports on tech business, startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley news via x402 micropayment.
What it does
This is a Questflow-hosted AI agent accessible via the x402 payment protocol. It is described as reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley, with particular focus on mobile apps, security, AI, venture, and startup news. The agent accepts a text prompt via HTTP POST and returns a text response.
Payment is handled through the x402 protocol on the Base Sepolia testnet using USDC, with a maximum amount of 100,000 units (likely 0.10 USDC given 6 decimals) per request. The endpoint requires an X-PAYMENT header containing a valid payment proof. The agent has a maximum timeout of 1,200 seconds (20 minutes), suggesting it may perform non-trivial processing or retrieval before responding.
Documentation is minimal. There is no OpenAPI spec, no dedicated docs page, and no detailed API reference beyond the x402 challenge response and the outputSchema embedded in it. The hosting platform (Questflow) is primarily marketed as an "AI Clone" platform for onchain market trading and alpha discovery, so this tech-news agent appears to be one of many user-created agents on the platform. Quality and depth of responses cannot be verified from available materials.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying for recent developments in startups and venture capital
- —Getting summaries or analysis of AI and security news
- —Asking about mobile app industry trends
- —Automated news briefing for tech-focused agents or dashboards
- —On-demand Silicon Valley business reporting
Fit
Best for
- —Agents needing on-demand tech and startup news via micropayment
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol on Base Sepolia testnet
- —Quick text-based Q&A about technology business topics
Not for
- —Production-grade news feeds requiring guaranteed freshness or sourcing (testnet only)
- —Structured data extraction or bulk news retrieval
- —Non-crypto-native workflows that cannot produce x402 payment headers
Quick start
curl -X POST https://api-dev.intra-tls2.dctx.link/x402/agent/qrn:agent:68230461d973977d61d66dad \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <your-x402-payment-proof>" \
-d '{"input": "What are the latest AI startup funding rounds?"}'Example
Request
{
"input": "What are the latest AI startup funding rounds?"
}Response
{
"response": "Several notable AI startup funding rounds were announced recently..."
}Endpoint
Quality
The listing is based almost entirely on the x402 challenge metadata and the agent's self-description. There is no OpenAPI spec, no documentation, no example responses, and the endpoint runs on a testnet (Base Sepolia), indicating it is not production-ready. The response schema is inferred from the outputSchema in the challenge.
Warnings
- —Endpoint uses Base Sepolia testnet — not mainnet; likely experimental or development-only
- —No API documentation, OpenAPI spec, or usage examples available
- —No way to verify the quality, freshness, or sourcing of news responses
- —The hosting platform (Questflow) is primarily a trading/market agent platform; this news agent's provenance and reliability are unclear
- —Maximum timeout of 1200 seconds suggests potentially very slow responses
Citations
- —Agent accepts POST with an 'input' string field and returns a 'response' string, paid via x402 on Base Sepolia with USDChttps://api-dev.intra-tls2.dctx.link/x402/agent/qrn:agent:68230461d973977d61d66dad
- —maxAmountRequired is 100000 units of USDC (asset 0x036CbD53842c5426634e7929541eC2318f3dCF7e) on base-sepoliahttps://api-dev.intra-tls2.dctx.link/x402/agent/qrn:agent:68230461d973977d61d66dad
- —Questflow is an AI Clone platform for onchain market aggregation and tradinghttps://api-dev.intra-tls2.dctx.link