USDC balance
GET /api/usdc-balance · Cached 30sRead the USDC balance of any address on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Ethereum, Monad, Celo, Avalanche, or Sei. Send GET /api/usdc-balance with the required field address and pay $0.003 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with address, usdc, raw, token and network.
Read-only on-chain call. The minimal single-token read for payment flows - for EVERY token a wallet holds in one call use wallet-balance. ?address=0x…&network=base
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
address | string | yes | 0x EVM address Also accepted as addr, wallet, account. |
network | string | no | chain: base | polygon | arbitrum | optimism | ethereum | monad | celo | avalanche | sei | robinhood (default base) |
Example request
curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/usdc-balance?address=0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0&network=base"
Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for usdc-balance; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.
Example response
{
"address": "0x…",
"usdc": "12.5",
"raw": "12500000",
"token": "USDC",
"network": "base"
}
| Field | Type | Always present | In the example |
|---|---|---|---|
address | string | yes | 0x… |
usdc | string | yes | 12.5 |
raw | string | yes | 12500000 |
token | string | yes | USDC |
network | string | yes | base |
From an MCP client
catalog.call {
"slug": "usdc-balance",
"params": {
"address": "0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0",
"network": "base"
}
}
The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for usdc-balance; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.
Errors and behavior
addressis required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carrieserror,tool,expected,requiredandexample, 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. - Cached: an identical request within 30s is answered from cache with
X-Cache: hit. - A
POSTwith a JSON body to /api/usdc-balance is served as this GET, with the body as the input. - An
Idempotency-Keyheader 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/usdc-balance?address=0xaBF4FAbd7c416fB67202E5f9002389Fc75e2a9D0&network=base");
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