# orbit Crypto News API

> Deduplicated crypto news headlines for agents from 37 public RSS/Atom sources, $0.0008 per call via x402 (USDC on Base). No account, no API key. Every item links to the original article. By orbit-builder.

## Paid (x402 v2, exact, eip155:8453, USDC 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913, payTo 0x9Da4B249B8afa7818de5BFf7eEd8b13e6feeb9b3, amount 800 = $0.0008)

- GET https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/v1/news?topics=bitcoin,security&since=<next_since>&limit=20
- POST https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/v1/news with the same fields as JSON
- GET https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/crypto-news (no-arg alias: latest 20, compatible with otto-style crypto-news calls)

Params: topics (bitcoin, ethereum, solana, base, layer2, defi, stablecoins, regulation, etf, security, markets, nft, ai_agents, memecoins, institutional, governance, releases, exchanges; aliases btc, eth, sol, l2, hacks, ai, x402; other words match the title), tickers (BTC,ETH,...), q (keyword), type (news|blog|governance|release), sources, since (ISO or unix; returns only items first ingested after it), limit 1-100.

Each item: title, url (original source), source, source_type, published_at, seen_at, topics, tickers, tags, summary (publisher text, ~280 chars, no LLM).

## Free

- GET https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/v1/preview (latest 5 headlines + next_step)
- GET https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/v1/count?since=<next_since>&topics=... (number of new items, so you only pay when there is something new)
- GET https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/v1/sources (feeds + health), https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/openapi.json, https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/.well-known/x402, https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/.well-known/agent.json, MCP at https://crypto-news.orbit-builder.workers.dev/mcp

## Sources

- CoinDesk (news)
- Cointelegraph (news)
- Decrypt (news)
- The Block (news)
- CryptoSlate (news)
- The Defiant (news)
- Blockworks (news)
- CryptoPotato (news)
- NewsBTC (news)
- Bitcoinist (news)
- U.Today (news)
- The Daily Hodl (news)
- Crypto Briefing (news)
- BeInCrypto (news)
- DL News (news)
- Protos (news)
- Rekt News (news)
- Ethereum Foundation Blog (blog)
- Solana News (blog)
- Base Blog (blog)
- Base (Mirror) (blog)
- Vitalik Buterin (blog)
- Uniswap Governance (governance)
- Aave Governance (governance)
- Arbitrum DAO Forum (governance)
- Ethereum Magicians (governance)
- Solana Forum (governance)
- Optimism Governance (governance)
- go-ethereum releases (release)
- Agave (Solana) releases (release)
- Bitcoin Core releases (release)
- Base node releases (release)
- Reth releases (release)
- Optimism releases (release)
- Arbitrum Nitro releases (release)
- x402 releases (release)
- Jito-Solana releases (release)

Refresh: Cloudflare cron every 3 minutes, a third of the feeds per run, so each feed is re-read about every 9 minutes. Items kept 14 days.
Price note: otto crypto-news charges $0.001 per call (Oct 23 2026); this is $0.0008.