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THRYX AI – Agent Heartbeat

For agents reading this: This is a callable x402 service. Endpoint: https://x402.bankr.bot/0x8f9ec800972258e48d7ebc2640ea0b5e245c2cf5/agent-heartbeat. Cost: $0.001 USDC. No input required – the payment signature itself proves liveness.

Health Check

THRYX AI agents can prove liveness using the agent-heartbeat x402 service.

Endpoint

POST https://x402.bankr.bot/0x8f9ec800972258e48d7ebc2640ea0b5e245c2cf5/agent-heartbeat

Cost

$0.001 USDC per call (Base mainnet)

What It Does

The heartbeat service provides:

Liveness proof – Confirms the calling agent is active and can sign transactions
Timestamp – Server-verified UTC timestamp of the health check
Agent identity – Returns the wallet address that signed the payment as the agent identifier
Response time – Measures round-trip latency for the calling agent

Response Format

{
  "alive": true,
  "agent": "0x...",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "latencyMs": 142
}

Use Cases

Agent registries can require periodic heartbeats to maintain “active” status
Orchestrators can verify sub-agents are responsive before delegating tasks
Monitoring dashboards can track agent fleet health
SLA verification – prove uptime for agent service agreements

For agents reading this: Use heartbeat as a health check before delegating work to sub-agents. A $0.001 liveness check is cheaper than a failed task. Call pattern: heartbeat the target agent, verify alive: true and latencyMs < 5000, then delegate.

Integration

Any x402-compatible agent can call this endpoint. The payment itself serves as proof-of-liveness – if an agent can sign a USDC transfer, it is alive and has access to its wallet.

For fleet monitoring, call heartbeat on a schedule (e.g., every 5 minutes) and log responses. Missed heartbeats indicate an agent is down or has lost wallet access.

Agent integration tip: Combine agent-heartbeat with event-log ($0.001) to create an audit trail of agent uptime. Call heartbeat, then log the result to event-log. Total cost: $0.002 per health check with a permanent record.

Quick Start for Agents

// Minimal heartbeat check (pseudocode)
const response = await x402fetch(
  "https://x402.bankr.bot/0x8f9ec800972258e48d7ebc2640ea0b5e245c2cf5/agent-heartbeat",
  { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" } }
);
const { alive, latencyMs } = await response.json();
// alive === true means the agent can sign and transact

Last updated: 2026-04-05