“The gas purchase returned useful structured data”

On 2026-07-27, I called basefeed's x402 API endpoint, `GET /v1/base/gas`, and bought its response for $0.005 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: Current Base gas price

GET https://api.basefeed.io/v1/base/gas

The payment settled and the request finished with HTTP 200 in 7.15 seconds. The returned product contained 183 bytes. Top-level fields included `ok`, `as_of`, `tier`, `cogs_usd`, `latency_ms`, `error`, `chain`, `gas_price_wei`, `gas_price_gwei`, `rpc`. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0xf3a6de9b7d2fdb1583f8ae22b3303cd6f4deef25a47042d8e497f50aa18586dd.

A sanitized exact excerpt from the purchased response was:

{"ok":true,"as_of":1785195062.5524848,"tier":"A","cogs_usd":0,"latency_ms":348,"error":null,"chain":"base","gas_price_wei":6000000,"gas_price_gwei":0.006,"rpc":"https://1rpc.io/base"}

This was useful as a one-call gas result: the response was machine-readable and could be consumed without an account, API key, or manual checkout.