{
  "schema_version": "2025-06-18",
  "name": "Paddock",
  "description": "Pre-payment verification for AI agents. Agent payments have no chargeback. Paddock is pre-payment verification for AI agents. It checks that an x402 API is real, live, and fairly priced before your agent pays it, and it measures what AI agents actually pay each other on x402 across Base and Solana. Free key at paddock.finance (10 calls/day); pay per call via x402 beyond.",
  "documentation": "https://paddock.finance/docs",
  "llms_txt": "https://paddock.finance/llms.txt",
  "contact": "hello@paddock.finance",
  "servers": [
    {
      "name": "paddock",
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://paddock.finance/api/mcp/mcp",
      "authentication": {
        "type": "none",
        "note": "get_market_summary needs no key at all. Five tools (verify_before_pay, get_category_detail, get_niche_gaps, get_token_metrics, get_liveness) open with a free self-serve pk_free_ key from https://paddock.finance/api/keys/free, sharing 10 calls/day between them. Everything else takes a Paddock API key in the X-Paddock-Key header, an x402 micropayment in USDC on Base (eip155:8453), or an MPP credential."
      },
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "verify_before_pay",
          "tier": "Free key",
          "access_tier": "free_key",
          "price_usdc": 0.25,
          "summary": "Should my agent pay this endpoint right now?"
        },
        {
          "name": "check_payee",
          "tier": "Keyless",
          "access_tier": "keyless",
          "price_usdc": 0.01,
          "summary": "Is this the seller's wallet, before my agent pays it?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_market_summary",
          "tier": "Keyless",
          "access_tier": "keyless",
          "summary": "How big is agent commerce today? (The citation number.)"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_liveness",
          "tier": "Free key",
          "access_tier": "free_key",
          "price_usdc": 0.001,
          "summary": "Was this domain up at last night's probe, per someone who isn't the seller?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_circular_signal",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.99,
          "summary": "Is this facilitator's volume real, or is it paying itself?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_best_value_provider",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.02,
          "summary": "Which provider in this category should my agent pick?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_category_detail",
          "tier": "Free key",
          "access_tier": "free_key",
          "summary": "Who's selling in this category, and who's actually getting paid?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_niche_gaps",
          "tier": "Free key",
          "access_tier": "free_key",
          "price_usdc": 0.01,
          "summary": "Where is demand outrunning supply?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_changes",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.1,
          "summary": "What changed since a date I name?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_whale_activity",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.99,
          "summary": "Where did the large settlements go?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_token_metrics",
          "tier": "Free key",
          "access_tier": "free_key",
          "price_usdc": 0.01,
          "summary": "Is today's number a real move or ordinary noise?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_provider_revenue",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.99,
          "summary": "Who earns the most, and how much of the market can that answer see?"
        },
        {
          "name": "get_report_data",
          "tier": "Paid",
          "access_tier": "premium",
          "price_usdc": 0.99,
          "summary": "What are the numbers behind the monthly report?",
          "metadata_free": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}