AI-curated, real-time news data delivered via a pay-per-call agent swarm on Base.
What it does
Gloria is an AI-powered data platform that provides real-time, highly curated, and customizable news data. It is deployed as an agent swarm on the Questflow platform and exposed as an x402-compatible endpoint, meaning callers pay per request using USDC on the Base network. The endpoint accepts a simple POST request with a text prompt and returns a string response from the agent swarm.
The service is accessed at a single endpoint that requires an X-PAYMENT header conforming to the x402 protocol (version 1). The maximum cost per call is 500,000 units of USDC (0.50 USDC given 6 decimals) on Base, paid to the specified wallet address. The agent swarm has a maximum timeout of 1,200 seconds (20 minutes), suggesting it may perform non-trivial aggregation or multi-step reasoning before returning results.
Documentation beyond the x402 challenge and the Questflow landing page is sparse. There is no OpenAPI spec, no dedicated docs page, and no detailed schema beyond the single input/output pair described in the challenge's outputSchema. The Questflow platform itself focuses on autonomous AI "clones" that aggregate onchain markets, but Gloria specifically targets news data curation rather than trading.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying for curated, real-time news on specific topics or industries
- —Feeding an autonomous trading agent with up-to-date news context
- —Building news-aware applications that pay per query with USDC
- —Monitoring breaking news or sentiment shifts programmatically
- —Integrating curated news into research or analytics pipelines
Fit
Best for
- —Agents needing on-demand curated news without API key management
- —Crypto-native applications that can pay with USDC on Base
- —Developers wanting pay-per-use news data without subscriptions
Not for
- —High-volume, low-latency news streaming (20-minute max timeout suggests batch-style processing)
- —Users who cannot transact in USDC on the Base network
- —Applications requiring structured, machine-readable news fields (output is a single string)
Quick start
curl -X POST https://api.questflow.ai/x402/swarm/qrn:swarm:68a701d567a3c4beef361629 \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-header>" \
-d '{"input": "What are the top crypto news stories today?"}'Example
Request
{
"input": "What are the top crypto news stories today?"
}Response
{
"response": "Here are today's top crypto news stories: 1) Bitcoin surpasses $70K amid ETF inflows... 2) Ethereum Layer 2 activity hits all-time high... 3) SEC signals new stablecoin framework..."
}Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 challenge with a clear outputSchema, but documentation is extremely sparse — no OpenAPI spec, no dedicated docs, no usage examples, and the response format is a single opaque string. Pricing is inferrable from the challenge but not documented elsewhere.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI specification or dedicated documentation available
- —Output is a single unstructured string — no structured news fields or metadata
- —Maximum timeout of 1200 seconds suggests potentially long response times
- —Example response is inferred from the schema description, not from an actual call
- —No rate limits, SLA, or data source provenance documented
Citations
- —Gloria is described as an AI-powered data platform providing real-time, highly curated, customizable news data, assembled as an agent swarm by Questflow.https://api.questflow.ai/x402/swarm/qrn:swarm:68a701d567a3c4beef361629
- —The endpoint accepts POST with a JSON body containing an 'input' string and returns a 'response' string.https://api.questflow.ai/x402/swarm/qrn:swarm:68a701d567a3c4beef361629
- —Payment is 500,000 units of USDC on Base network (asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913) with a max timeout of 1200 seconds.https://api.questflow.ai/x402/swarm/qrn:swarm:68a701d567a3c4beef361629
- —Questflow is a platform for autonomous AI clones that aggregate onchain markets.https://api.questflow.ai