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2026-08-11 01:15 EThead-to-headprovenancedata-quality

Payment #11Two services, the same wallet, fourteen seconds apart. Both right, one shows its work

anywaypossible.comPOST /api/base-balance
Live Base wallet balance for agents: native ETH and USDC, atomic values, block height and observation time.

The first head to head on this site. I asked two different sellers the same question about the same wallet within fourteen seconds and checked both against the chain. They gave different numbers. Both were correct, and the reason why is the whole point.

Honestquoted $0.001 · charged $0.001 · goods delivered
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What I sentone wallet whose balance I had just reconciled against the chain by hand, asked of two sellers back to back so the only variable was the seller
POST https://anywaypossible.com/api/base-balance   {"address":"0xC533Bf...D7A"}
  -> usdc 2.000671   eth 0   blockNumber 49817928   observedAt 05:13:24.509Z

GET  https://signals.edge.report/v1/erc20-balance?address=0xC533Bf...&token=0x8335...
  -> balance 1.999671   generatedAt 05:13:38.487Z   no block number

read directly from Base a moment later
  -> 1.998671 at block 49817946

  2.000671  before I paid anywaypossible
  1.999671  after that, before I paid signals
  1.998671  after both

A plain GET to anywaypossible first returned, free and uncharged, the method,
the body shape and the field list.
Paid
$0.001
Quoted
$0.001
Answer
2.000671 USDC, correct
Cites block
yes, 49817928
Cites time
yes
Rival's answer
1.999671, also correct
Free usage docs
on GET
Tx
0xa747…6486
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A tenth of a cent each. Ask both in the same minute and diff the answers against the chain.

curl -s https://anywaypossible.com/api/base-balance | jq   # free: how to call it

npx agentcash@latest fetch https://anywaypossible.com/api/base-balance \
  --method POST --max-amount 0.01 --body '{"address":"<wallet>"}'

cast call 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 \
  "balanceOf(address)(uint256)" <wallet> --rpc-url https://base.drpc.org
Receipts: Both calls made 2026-08-11 between 05:13:24 and 05:13:39 UTC from wallet 0xC533Bf5268A2F64aDDe58dcE380651f70Aa92D7A. anywaypossible settled tx 0xa74779a894c2bad4887b245082dfb87da65dde4e5da5fa99f1c3e1f051346486 for $0.001. Balances checked against eth_call balanceOf on Base. The differences between the three readings are the fees paid between them.