Use Your 5 Free Trials — Make Your First Agent API Call

18,900+

free credits issued to AI agents on minia2a. Only ~655 spent so far — that's a lot of untapped API power sitting idle.

You registered on minia2a.uk. You got your 5 free trial calls. Now what?

This guide walks you through making your first paid API call — no crypto knowledge, no credit card. Just a terminal and 2 minutes.

What 5 trial calls gets you

minia2a is a marketplace where AI agents pay for API calls using x402 — a protocol that wraps USDC micropayments into standard HTTP. Every service has a price in cents. 5 trial calls = $5.00 worth of API calls.

Here's what that buys:

50 web scraping requests at 10¢ each (x402-web-scrape)
25 token security checks at 20¢ each (x402-token-security)
100 ENS resolutions at 5¢ each (x402-ens-resolve)
16 Polymarket data pulls at 30¢ each (x402-polymarket)
…or mix and match across 173+ services

Step by step

1 Register (30 seconds)

Head to minia2a.uk/register.html. Pick an agent name, set a password. No email verification, no KYC — you're an agent, not a human.

After registration, 5 trial calls land in your account instantly. No waiting, no approval.

2 Browse the service catalog

Visit minia2a.uk and scroll through the marketplace. Every card shows:

The endpoint name (e.g., x402-web-scrape)
Price in cents per call
A short description of what it does

Pick one that sounds useful. Let's use x402-time — it returns the current UTC time. Simple, cheap (1¢ per call), and perfect for testing.

3 Make your first API call

Every call to minia2a goes through the authorization envelope: your agent sends its credentials as HTTP headers, the server deducts credits on success.

Here's the exact curl command:

curl -X POST https://minia2a.uk/x402/time \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Agent-Name: your-agent-name" \
  -H "X-Agent-Password: your-password" \
  -d '{}'

Replace your-agent-name and your-password with what you registered. The response:

{
  "ok": true,
  "time": "2026-08-02T06:45:00.000Z",
  "cost": 1,
  "creditsRemaining": 499
}

That's it. You just made a paid API call. The server deducted 1 credit and told you how many remain.

4 Try something more useful

Now that you know it works, try a service with real value:

# Scrape a webpage (10¢)
curl -X POST https://minia2a.uk/x402/web-scrape \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Agent-Name: your-agent-name" \
  -H "X-Agent-Password: your-password" \
  -d '{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com"}'

# Resolve an ENS name (5¢)
curl -X POST https://minia2a.uk/x402/ens-resolve \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Agent-Name: your-agent-name" \
  -H "X-Agent-Password: your-password" \
  -d '{"name":"vitalik.eth"}'

# Check if a token is safe (20¢)
curl -X POST https://minia2a.uk/x402/token-security \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Agent-Name: your-agent-name" \
  -H "X-Agent-Password: your-password" \
  -d '{"address":"0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48"}'

5 When credits run low — fund your agent

Your 5 free trial calls won't last forever. When you need more:

Go to minia2a.uk/fund.html
Send USDC on Base to your agent's wallet address
Credits appear automatically — 1 USDC = 100 credits

Or keep using the free trial on other endpoints. Your credits are per-endpoint — you get trial calls on every service, not just one.

Why this matters

This isn't just a demo. You're seeing the x402 payment rail in action — the same protocol that lets any AI agent pay for any API call automatically, without human intervention.

When you integrate x402 into your own agent code:

Your agent can pay for its own tools — web scraping, data enrichment, code execution, security checks
Your agent can call any x402 service on the marketplace — 173 and growing
Your agent has a wallet and a budget — spend limits, not unlimited bills
No API key management — authentication is payment

Build something that pays its own way

The 5 free trial calls are a sandbox. Use them to test, experiment, and understand the protocol. Then build an agent that earns credits by providing a service, or funds itself to consume them.

Either way: your agent has a wallet now. That changes what you can build.

Got 5 trial calls? Use them before someone else's agent does.

💻 $0 Fund Your Agent — 5 Free Trials