Physical premiums with tax-wedge decomposition: for each venue (Shanghai/Tokyo/India/Lo…
Physical premiums with tax-wedge decomposition: for each venue (Shanghai/Tokyo/India/London) the gross premium over COMEX, the embedded import-duty/VAT/consumption-tax wedge, and the ex-tax 'market' premium — the real physical-demand signal after stripping ta…
by thevaultreport.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner · updated 2026-10-03
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
Physical premiums with tax-wedge decomposition: for each venue (Shanghai/Tokyo/India/London) the gross premium over COMEX, the embedded import-duty/VAT/consumption-tax wedge, and the ex-tax 'market' premium — the real physical-demand signal after stripping tax distortion. Optional ?metal=gold|silver|platinum|palladium.
Tags: bazaar
Call contract
- Method
- GET
- Input
- query parameters
- Output
- json
- Last paid call
- 2026-10-03
{
"metal": "gold"
}{
"attribution": "Attribute to The Vault Report with a link to https://thevaultreport.com",
"endpoint": "premiums",
"generated_at": "2026-04-18T14:00:00Z",
"license": "CC BY 4.0",
"returned": 1,
"rows": [
{
"as_of": "2026-04-18T14:00:00Z",
"comex_ref_usd_per_oz": 3391.2,
"contract": "au9999",
"currency": "CNY",
"ex_tax_premium_pct": 0.6,
"gross_premium_pct": 13.6,
"local_price": 790.5,
"metal": "GOLD",
"source": "sina_shfe",
"tax_wedge_pct": 13,
"unit": "gram",
"usd_per_oz": 3412.8,
"venue": "Shanghai",
"wedge_label": "VAT"
}
],
"schema_version": 1,
"source": "The Vault Report",
"source_url": "https://thevaultreport.com"
}Use with an agent
- Discover. Agents find this listing with
GET https://bazaar.saylorinnovations.com/discovery/search?query=…, the MCP toolsearch_resources, or/discovery/resources. - Inspect. Fetch
/resources/39817.jsonfor the price and payment options. - Pay. Call
GET https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/premiums. The provider answers402with its payment requirements. An x402 client signs one of the options below and retries withPAYMENT-SIGNATURE. - Execute. The provider returns
200with 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
- $0.02 / request
- Protocol
- x402 v2
- Auth
- No account or API key. Pay per request.
- Networks
- Base
- Demand
- 2 calls · 1 unique payers in 30d (public x402 Bazaar data)
x402 payment requirements
| Scheme | Network | Asset | Amount | Pay to | Timeout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exact | Base eip155:8453 | USDC | $0.02 | 0x74500ee8519da3b6bf43642bc06be5874a9ecc99 | 300s |
accepts[] (raw JSON)
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x74500ee8519da3b6bf43642bc06be5874a9ecc99",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "20000",
"amountUsd": 0.02,
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Schemas
Output schema (JSON Schema)
{
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"attribution": {
"type": "string"
},
"endpoint": {
"type": "string"
},
"generated_at": {
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"license": {
"type": "string"
},
"note": {
"type": "string"
},
"returned": {
"type": "integer"
},
"rows": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"as_of": {
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"comex_ref_usd_per_oz": {
"type": "number"
},
"contract": {
"type": "string"
},
"currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"ex_tax_premium_pct": {
"type": "number"
},
"gross_premium_pct": {
"type": "number"
},
"local_price": {
"type": "number"
},
"metal": {
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"type": "string"
},
"tax_wedge_pct": {
"type": "number"
},
"unit": {
"type": "string"
},
"usd_per_oz": {
"type": "number"
},
"venue": {
"type": "string"
},
"wedge_label": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"schema_version": {
"type": "integer"
},
"source": {
"type": "string"
},
"source_url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"endpoint",
"rows"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}Example shape — generated from the schema, not a captured live response
{
"example": {
"attribution": "string",
"endpoint": "string",
"generated_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"license": "string",
"note": "string",
"returned": 0,
"rows": [
{
"as_of": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"comex_ref_usd_per_oz": 0,
"contract": "string",
"currency": "string",
"ex_tax_premium_pct": 0,
"gross_premium_pct": 0,
"local_price": 0,
"metal": "string",
"source": "string",
"tax_wedge_pct": 0,
"unit": "string",
"usd_per_oz": 0,
"venue": "string",
"wedge_label": "string"
}
],
"schema_version": 0,
"source": "string",
"source_url": "string"
},
"type": "string"
}Examples
curl -X GET 'https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/premiums'
# -> 402 Payment Required; read PAYMENT-REQUIRED
# retry the identical request with PAYMENT-SIGNATUREconst res = await fetch("https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/premiums", {
"method": "GET"
});
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}import httpx
res = httpx.request("GET", "https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/premiums")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerDetails
- Provider
- thevaultreport.com
- Endpoint
- https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/premiums
- Machine-readable
/resources/39817.json