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      "name": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP",
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      "vendorUrl": "https://www.crossmint.com",
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      "category": "payment-platforms",
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/Crossmint/crossmint-sdk",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://www.crossmint.com/api",
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crossmint/wallets-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crossmint/client-sdk-react-ui"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Server-side and client-side API keys in the X-API-KEY header, each with scopes; client keys can require JWTs from your own auth provider. Staging keys work on testnets at staging.crossmint.com and production keys on mainnets. The docs MCP server needs no auth.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Wallets free for 1,000 monthly active wallets and up to 2,000 transactions, then from $0.02 per monthly active wallet with volume discounts. Tokenisation from $0.01 an action. Onramp, offramp, checkout and stablecoin orchestration are per-transaction fees with volume discounts, not published. Agent Cards and Agent Checkouts pricing isn't published. Enterprise (premium SLAs and rate limits) is through sales (https://www.crossmint.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.02 / mo",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "partial",
        "evidence": "Agent Wallets pay x402 and MPP endpoints, and an n8n node puts an x402 paywall in front of workflows. The Crossmint API itself isn't paid over x402 (https://docs.crossmint.com/agents/payment-flows/x402).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.crossmint.com/agents/overview",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.crossmint.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Crossmint/crossmint-sdk/main/packages/wallets/src/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "payments.card",
        "payments.x402",
        "payments.stablecoin",
        "payments.checkout",
        "payments.payouts"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "stablecoin",
        "x402",
        "wallet",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 140,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 50,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 83
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          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Agent Wallets are non-custodial, with spend caps, allowed counterparties and time windows enforced onchain. No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts.",
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          "Agent Wallets are non-custodial, with spend caps, allowed counterparties and time windows enforced onchain",
          "Scoped server and client API keys, with each operation's required scope named in the spec",
          "Idempotency keys on transaction and transfer creation, and cursor or page pagination with date filters",
          "Regulatory footprint stated in public, a Spanish CNMV crypto-asset service provider authorisation plus FinCEN and FINTRAC registrations",
          "16 SDK release commits since 1 July, the latest on 1 October 2026"
        ],
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          "No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts",
          "Agent Checkouts runs in production only, so the first test spends real money",
          "Status history is on a JavaScript-only Datadog page, and the docs changelog stops at 11 February 2026",
          "No MCP server for wallets or payments, only a one-tool docs search",
          "SDKs in TypeScript only"
        ],
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          "Send an `x-idempotency-key` on every transaction or transfer create so a retry can't pay twice",
          "Use staging keys against testnets; production keys work on mainnets only, and Agent Checkouts has no staging at all",
          "On 429, wait and retry. No Retry-After header is documented, and writes are capped at 120 a minute per project",
          "Use Agent Wallets for x402 and MPP endpoints and Agent Cards for card merchants; they aren't interchangeable",
          "Append `.md` to any docs URL for a Markdown copy"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "grade": "B",
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              "tasks"
            ],
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          "payments": 50,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 65
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        "provenanceScore": 100
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://staging.crossmint.com/api/2025-06-09/wallets -H \"X-API-KEY: $CROSSMINT_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"chainType\":\"evm\"}'",
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        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
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              "url": "https://docs.crossmint.com/mcp"
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/crossmint"
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        {
          "item": "Wallet over free tier",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "per monthly active wallet above 1,000, volume discounts"
        },
        {
          "item": "Tokenisation action",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "starting price, volume discounts"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Crossmint, Inc.",
        "domain": "crossmint.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2007-02-23",
        "domainNote": "crossmint.com was registered in 2007, long before Crossmint was founded. Terms also name Crossmint Europe, S.L. and Crossmint Horizon, Inc. The security.txt lists a contact and policy but no Expires field.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.crossmint.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.crossmint.com/changelog",
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        "score": 100
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.json",
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              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          "page": "https://status.crossmint.com",
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          "url": "https://crossmint.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.crossmint.com/llms.txt",
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      "slug": "tempo",
      "name": "Tempo",
      "vendor": "Tempo",
      "vendorUrl": "https://tempo.xyz",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "payment-platforms",
      "summary": "A payments-first Layer 1 chain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, live on mainnet since 2026-03-18.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tempo.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/tempoxyz/tempo",
      "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.tempo.xyz/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "viem"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "mppx"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pympp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Public RPC (rpc.tempo.xyz) and most read endpoints of api.tempo.xyz answer without a key, within a per-IP limit. Those same endpoints accept MPP payment credentials (`Authorization: Payment`) instead of a key. Project-scoped API keys (`tempo:sk:` for production, `tempo_sandbox:sk:` for non-mainnet) carry scopes such as `data:read`, optional IP allowlists, and are required for endpoints such as webhook management. Payments are signed by the paying wallet.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "No platform fee for using the chain. Transaction fees are paid in any supported USD stablecoin, with a dynamic base fee capped at about $0.0006 for a 50,000-gas transfer and a floor around $0.00003. Fees can be sponsored by a fee payer, billed through the Tempo API Console. API calls are free within quota; over quota, anonymous endpoints answer 402 and can be paid per request over MPP, and keyed usage is billed in the console, with no published price for either. Stripe charges its own fees when it settles MPP payments on Tempo (https://tempo.xyz/developers/docs/protocol/fees).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.0006 / tx",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Tempo's own API takes MPP, not x402, on its anonymous endpoints (https://tempo.xyz/developers/docs/api/rate-limits). MPP itself added acceptance of x402 exact payments on EVM chains in June 2026 (https://mpp.dev/blog/evm-x402-support).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": 4,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 209447,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://tempo.xyz/developers/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://tempo.xyz/developers/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.tempo.xyz/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "payments.stablecoin",
        "payments.metering"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "open-source",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "stablecoin",
        "typescript",
        "free-tier"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-24",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 76.6,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 27,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 2,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 88,
          "payments": 80,
          "reliability": 71,
          "schema": 88,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 63
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "api.tempo.xyz accepts MPP on its anonymous endpoints, so an agent can pay per request without an account. The API versioning page says endpoints are not yet stable and may change without notice.",
        "strengths": [
          "api.tempo.xyz accepts MPP on its anonymous endpoints, so an agent can pay per request without an account",
          "Transaction fees capped around $0.0006 for a transfer and payable in any supported USD stablecoin, with sponsorship",
          "Scoped API keys with rotation, revocation, IP allowlists and hashed storage",
          "Published rate limits with `RateLimit-*` and `Retry-After` headers, one error envelope and cursor pagination",
          "Open-source node under MIT or Apache-2.0 with seven releases since 22 July and a dated changelog"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The API versioning page says endpoints are not yet stable and may change without notice",
          "No terms of service found for the API, console, CLI or MCP server",
          "No active bug bounty while audits continue",
          "Breaking network upgrades every two to four weeks, with mainnet activation as soon as three days after release",
          "No published price for API usage or per-request MPP payments"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Payment` up front to pay per request; a 402 after quota carries the challenge in `WWW-Authenticate`",
          "Read `RateLimit-Remaining` and `RateLimit-Reset` rather than hardcoding the 20 or 100 a minute defaults",
          "Pass `chainId=testnet` with a sandbox key; a sandbox key sent to mainnet is ignored and the call drops to the anonymous limit",
          "Use `tempo request --dry-run` before paying an MPP endpoint to see the cost",
          "Branch on `error.code`, never on `error.message`"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 8,
        "avgRating": 3.1,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 76.6
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        ],
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          "payments": 80,
          "reliability": 71,
          "schema": 88,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 50
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.tempo.xyz/v1/blocks",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tempo https://mcp.tempo.xyz",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "tempo": {
              "url": "https://mcp.tempo.xyz"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.stablecoin",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/tempo"
      },
      "area": "payments",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Transfer fee cap",
          "unit": "tx",
          "usd": 0.0006,
          "note": "base-fee cap for a 50,000-gas transfer; floor around $0.00003"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Tempo Labs Inc.",
        "domain": "tempo.xyz",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-11-09",
        "domainNote": "tempo.xyz was registered in 2017, before Tempo was founded in 2025, and transferred in September 2025. The privacy policy names Tempo Labs Inc. dba Tempo; no terms of service page was found.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://tempo.xyz/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.tempo.xyz",
        "changelog": "https://tempo.xyz/developers/docs/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "score": 76
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.json",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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            {
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              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 272
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          ]
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        "vendorStatus": {
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          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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            "version": "2.57.2",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:41:40.133303913Z"
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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            "version": "0.11.0",
            "released": "2026-08-28",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:41:42.334991645Z"
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          "url": "https://tempo.xyz/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:02.204771068Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://tempo.xyz/developers/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:17.779014685Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "tempo.xyz",
          "registered": "2017-11-09",
          "source": "https://rdap.centralnic.com/xyz/domain/tempo.xyz",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:55.633115434Z"
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:23.615539559Z",
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            "kind": "privacy",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:25.762747351Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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      }
    },
    "summary": "Tempo has a score of 76.6 (BB) against Crossmint API + Docs MCP's 67.4 (B). Both do payments stablecoin. The largest gap is payments \u0026 pricing, 30 points."
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