EUR/CAD forex exchange rate via x402 micropayment on Base for $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint provides the EUR/CAD foreign exchange rate through a pay-per-call x402 protocol. It is hosted on lowpaymentfee.com, a platform offering a variety of data, AI, finance, and utility APIs all priced at $0.02 per request, settled in USDC on the Base network. No API keys or rate limits are required — callers simply attach an x402 payment header to each POST request.
The specific endpoint at `/api/v1/forex/EURCAD/rate` returns the current EUR/CAD exchange rate in JSON format. The x402 challenge confirms the endpoint is live, accepting USDC (contract 0x8335…2913) on Base with a max amount of 20,000 base units (i.e., $0.02 given USDC's 6 decimals). Payment is made to address 0x1A2B13E97f5F837C8F9FA1F95a1484B7C70d85F3 with a timeout of 300 seconds.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform also offers endpoints for analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), other finance data (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and utility services (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation), all at the same $0.02 per-request price point. Documentation pages exist but appear to require wallet connection and contain minimal content beyond the landing page.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching the current EUR/CAD exchange rate for trading bots or financial dashboards
- —Integrating real-time forex data into agent workflows without API key management
- —Pay-per-call currency rate lookups for low-volume or sporadic usage
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or bots needing on-demand EUR/CAD rates without subscription commitments
- —Developers wanting keyless, pay-per-use forex data on Base/USDC
- —Low-volume forex data consumers who prefer micropayments over monthly plans
Not for
- —High-frequency trading requiring sub-millisecond latency or bulk rate feeds
- —Users who need historical forex data or OHLCV candles (not indicated as available)
- —Users without a Base-compatible USDC wallet
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/forex/EURCAD/rate \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-header>"Endpoint
Quality
The x402 challenge is live and confirms pricing and payment details. However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no documented request/response format, no example payloads, and the docs pages are effectively empty (wallet-gated). The endpoint's actual response structure must be inferred from the URL pattern alone.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available for this endpoint
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /api, /pricing, /README) appear to require wallet connection and contain no visible content
- —Response format and fields are unknown — no example response is available
- —The endpoint URL suggests a forex pair (EURCAD) but the platform's landing page lists it under generic 'Finance & Web3' without specific forex documentation
Citations
- —The endpoint returns HTTP 402 with an x402 challenge accepting USDC on Base with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units ($0.02)https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/forex/EURCAD/rate
- —All APIs on lowpaymentfee.com are priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/forex/EURCAD/rate