Before your agent pays a stranger, find out if it delivers.
Aegis is Boris Inc's trust layer for Algorand x402 payments. A $0.01 check returns a score, a tier and a delivery‑verified flag for any x402 service — not only ones running on Algorand. Discovery is free, and settlement is gasless USDC on Algorand mainnet.
No accounts, no API keys. Discovery needs no wallet at all.
Verify before you pay
Will it deliver? That is the only question that matters.
An agent that pays a stranger for data or compute is making a bet with someone else's money. Before it pays, one question matters: will this service actually deliver? Aegis answers that the only reliable way it can — by spending real USDC on Algorand and recording what came back.
That record is what /trust
returns: a score, a tier, a delivery‑verified flag and a plain recommendation, for $0.01, checked
against any x402 service — not only ones running on Algorand.
How settlement works
Every check and every purchase settles in USDC on Algorand mainnet, gasless, through the GoPlausible facilitator. There is no separate gas token to hold before your agent can pay.
Aegis is spot‑checked the same way as everything it ranks — see its own score at aegis.borisinc.com.
Free discovery
Look before you pay. Looking costs nothing.
Aegis builds its Algorand index directly from the GoPlausible facilitator's catalogue of live services, then re‑checks it continuously. Discovery, market data and the full registry are free and need no wallet — spend only enters the picture once you ask a specific service to prove itself.
Discover
Search by capability and get back trust‑ranked Algorand x402 services, best matches first.
Market
A snapshot of the Algorand x402 market: how many services are indexed, how many are live, how many have proven delivery.
Registry
The full indexed view, machine‑readable, for anyone who wants to build their own ranking on top of ours.
Cross‑chain routing
Fund your agent on Algorand. Reach Base without a swap.
/route takes a single
payment in USDC on Algorand and buys the best‑trusted upstream service wherever it happens to
run — on Algorand or on Base — then returns the result. Same asset in, same asset paid out; no
bridge, no wrapped token, no second wallet to fund on another chain.
Payment is authorised before Aegis buys
and captured only once an upstream delivers. Nothing delivers, nothing is captured. Quote a route for
free with /route/quote before committing to it.
The identical trust layer runs natively on Base as Aegis — an agent funded on either chain can reach both.
One endpoint, two chains
/route once, gaslessPaid cognition
LLM cognition, priced per call.
Computed on independent hardware and paid in USDC on Algorand — not resold from someone else's API with a markup.
Summarise
$0.01Long text or a URL in, a faithful summary out, at whatever length you ask for.
Extract
$0.01Hand it a schema and messy input; get valid structured data back.
Research
$0.02A question in, a researched answer with sources out.
Free delivery reporting
Trust scores are built from what buyers actually saw.
Any wallet that paid a service can file a signed report on what happened — delivered or failed. Each report is bound to the specific transaction and checked against the on‑chain payment before it counts, signed with the reporting wallet's own ed25519 key. Aegis folds it into that service's score alongside its own purchases.
Why it matters
Aegis cannot buy from every service, every time. Buyer reports extend the same delivery record between our own spot checks, so a score reflects more than a periodic sample.
Reference
Every endpoint, priced.
All prices in USDC, settled gaslessly on Algorand mainnet via the GoPlausible facilitator.
| Endpoint | Price | What it returns |
|---|---|---|
| GET /trust?url= | $0.01 | Score, tier, delivery‑verified flag and a recommendation — for any x402 service, not only Algorand ones |
| GET /discover?query= | free | Trust‑ranked Algorand x402 services matching a capability |
| GET /market | free | State of the Algorand x402 market |
| GET /registry.json | free | The full indexed view, machine‑readable |
| GET /route?... | auth‑then‑capture | Pay once in USDC on Algorand; Aegis buys the best‑trusted upstream on Algorand or Base and returns it — same asset, no swap |
| GET /route/quote?need= | free | Quote a cross‑chain route before committing to it |
| GET /paid/summarize | $0.01 | Summarise text or a URL, computed on independent hardware |
| GET /paid/extract | $0.01 | Structured extraction against a schema you supply |
| GET /paid/research | $0.02 | A researched answer with sources |
| GET /report | free | File a signed, transaction‑bound delivered/failed attestation |
Quickstart
Two calls: one free, one paid.
Discovery costs nothing and needs no wallet. A trust check costs $0.01 and is the cheapest insurance available before your agent pays a stranger.
# free — trust-ranked Algorand services for a capability
curl "https://algo.borisinc.com/discover?query=weather+data"
# $0.01 — settled in USDC on Algorand, gasless
curl "https://algo.borisinc.com/trust?url=https://example.com/paid/x"Give your Algorand agent a way to tell real from fake.
Discovery is free. A trust check is $0.01. Start there.
registry.json · OpenAPI ·
llms.txt · network: algorand-mainnet ·
x402/v2 · Boris Inc's Global x402 Challenge entry