Account nonce

The transaction count of an account, which is the nonce its next transaction must carry. Send GET /api/chain/nonce with the required field address and pay $0.001 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with address, network, block, nonce and nonceHex.

Ask for block "pending" to include transactions already in the mempool, which is what you want before signing; the default "latest" counts only mined transactions. Returns the count as a decimal string and as hex. EVM chains: ethereum, base, polygon, arbitrum, optimism.

Category: Crypto & onchain data · Tags: evm nonce account rpc transaction · Also found as: transaction-count eth_getTransactionCount account-nonce

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/chain/nonce?address=0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0&network=base"

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for chain-nonce; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "address": "0xabf4fabd7c416fb67202e5f9002389fc75e2a9d0",
  "network": "base",
  "block": "latest",
  "nonce": "412",
  "nonceHex": "0x19c"
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "chain-nonce",
  "params": {
    "address": "0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0",
    "network": "base"
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for chain-nonce; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• address is required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example, so the caller can correct it.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A POST with a JSON body to /api/chain/nonce is served as this GET, with the body as the input.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/chain/nonce?address=0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0&network=base");

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