Monitoring · x402 · early usage

Strait of Hormuz flag rollup: the flag states of the live-AIS vessel population (seen w…

by straits.live · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner · updated 2026-10-07

30d calls2

30d payers2

MethodGET

Outputjson

Mirrored from Coinbase's public x402 Bazaar. The description is the provider's own text and has not been reviewed here; the payment requirements are copied as published.

What it does

Strait of Hormuz flag rollup: the flag states of the live-AIS vessel population (seen within the last activeWindowHours, currently 1.5) ranked by vessel count, each with a sanctioned tally and an oldest_last_seen recency check, plus distinct-flag count and sanctioned share. Flags are best-effort from the MMSI MID (ITU-T M.585). Quality-gated on live AIS. Operators and direction are omitted, not faked. Recently-dark hulls (last 3 to 24h) are counted in darkFleetTotal.

Tags: maritime · shipping · hormuz · flags · sanctions · bazaar

Call contract

Method: GET
Input: query parameters
Output: json
Last paid call: 2026-10-07

Input example from Bazaar metadata

{}

Output example

{
  "activeWindowHours": 1.5,
  "darkFleetTotal": 71,
  "distinct_flags": 26,
  "health": {
    "aisSource": "live",
    "note": null,
    "trusted": true
  },
  "sanctioned_count": 39,
  "sanctioned_share": 0.029,
  "schema": "https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags",
  "top_flags": [
    {
      "code": "PA",
      "count": 86,
      "country": "Panama",
      "oldest_last_seen": "2026-07-21T20:15:00Z",
      "sanctioned_count": 4
    }
  ],
  "vessel_count": 1328
}

Use with an agent

Discover. Agents find this listing with GET https://bazaar.saylorinnovations.com/discovery/search?query=…, the MCP tool search_resources, or /discovery/resources.
Inspect. Fetch /resources/27062.json for the price and payment options.
Pay. Call GET https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags. The provider answers 402 with its payment requirements. An x402 client signs one of the options below and retries with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
Execute. The provider returns 200 with the data. Agent Bazaar is not in the request path and never sees your payment.

For humans

You don't need an account or an API key; you need a wallet holding a small amount of USDC on Base, and an x402-capable client (see the examples below). Call the endpoint unpaid first to see exactly what it asks for.

Pricing & payment

Price: $0.01 / request
Protocol: x402 v2
Auth: No account or API key. Pay per request.
Networks: Base
Demand: 2 calls · 2 unique payers in 30d (public x402 Bazaar data)

x402 payment requirements

Scheme	Network	Asset	Amount	Pay to	Timeout
exact	Base eip155:8453	USDC	$0.01	0x1B24dEAc0951EFCD6923f684b574Fe9a4202Cf1f	300s

accepts[] (raw JSON)

[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "payTo": "0x1B24dEAc0951EFCD6923f684b574Fe9a4202Cf1f",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "10000",
    "amountUsd": 0.01,
    "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
  }
]

Schemas

Output schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "properties": {
    "example": {
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Example shape — generated from the schema, not a captured live response

{
  "example": {},
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

curl

curl "https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags"
# -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay
# retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags");
if (res.status === 402) {
  const { accepts } = await res.json();
  // pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}

Python

import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags")
if res.status_code == 402:
    accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
    # pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header

Details

Provider: straits.live
Endpoint: https://straits.live/api/premium/hormuz/flags
Machine-readable: /resources/27062.json