Verified government reference data for 11 African countries: central-bank policy rates, VAT/tax rates, minimum wages, CPI inflation, corporate & personal income-tax brackets, public holidays. Every value cited to its official primary source with effective and last-confirmed dates. Plus computed answers (VAT breakdown, minimum-wage compliance, working days, income tax, payroll). x402 pay-per-call, USDC on Base.
Pay from $0.001 to $0.02 per request in USDC on Base, settled onchain via the x402 protocol, no signup, no API key needed.
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ASSESSMENT
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reliability 100%
- uptime 24h
- 100%
- uptime 7d
- 100%
- uptime 30d
- 100%
- uptime 90d
- 100%
- response p95
- 742ms
- avg response
- 582ms
- total checks
- 24
compliance A (11/11)
11 of 11 x402 conformance checks pass. Full checklist below.
price $0.001 to $0.02 (p15 in Data)
- price (min)
- $0.001
- price (max)
- $0.02
- category percentile (min)
- p15 in Data
- category percentile (max)
- p48 in Data
- endpoints / prices
- 3 / 2
- model
- tiered
- stability
- 0%
risk clean
No deterministic risk flag. Risk fires only on an exact blocklist match, or a reserved-brand name with a mismatched verified payTo. Never from low uptime, a high price, or a model guess.
traction $0 30d · 0 buyers
- volume 30d
- $0
- buyers 30d
- 0
- settlements 30d
- 0
- last settlement
- ---
- top buyer share
- -
- trend 7d vs 30d
- -
- networks
- eip155:8453
Conservative undercount: only USDC settlements via facilitators we measure are counted. A measured floor, not an estimate.
Top buyer share is a concentration signal, not part of the ranking score.
WHAT IT DOES
ai-derivedProvides Pan-African government reference data including VAT rates, wage checks, and other government metrics.
- category
- government-reference-data
- in
- path
AI-generated summary. The measured data is never altered by it.
ENDPOINTS
| METHOD | PATH | DESCRIPTION | PRICE | NETWORK | ASSET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /v1/all | $0.02 | Base | USDC | |
| GET | /v1/answers/vat | $0.001 | Base | USDC | |
| GET | /v1/answers/wage-check | $0.001 | Base | USDC |
3 endpoints
REQUEST / RESPONSE EXAMPLE
An unpaid request to GET /v1/all returns HTTP 402 with the payment terms. Settle onchain via your facilitator, then retry with the X-Payment header.
// request
curl -i 'https://afriref.dev/v1/all'
// 402 response (captured by monitor) · 3 payloads · click to expand
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},
"payTo": "0x1F0409ccD20A2fb497d4DeCeF4E17e9d0688FeA6",
"amount": "20000",
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"uganda",
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"morocco",
"cote-divoire",
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"ethiopia",
"benin",
"niger",
"burkina-faso",
"togo",
"mali",
"cameroon",
"gabon",
"chad",
"congo",
"central-african-republic",
"equatorial-guinea"
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"notes": "Burkina Faso has NO national central bank and NO national policy rate. Monetary policy is set for the whole Union Economique et Monetaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA/WAEMU) by the BCEAO Comite de Politique Monetaire in Dakar; the identical rate applies in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. At its ordinary meeting of 4 March 2026 the CPM cut the principal policy rate by 25 basis points from 3.25% to 3.00%, and the marginal lending window rate from 5.25% to 5.00%, both effective 16 March 2026. The required-reserve coefficient stays at 3.0%. The CPM met again on 10 June 2026 and held both rates unchanged (3.00% / 5.00%), so 3.00% is the live rate on the last_confirmed date. Independently cross-checked against BCEAO's own weekly auction notices, which state the operative rate on their face: the notice for the 8 June 2026 weekly/monthly injection auction (avis n.23/H/2026, 06/M/2026 and 06/OdR/2026) reads 'Le taux minimum de soumission aux appels d'offres hebdomadaire et mensuel est fixe a 3,0000%, principal taux directeur de la BCEAO'. This value and effective_from reconcile exactly with the Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal files in this dataset, as they must - it is one rate, not three. MEMBERSHIP CAVEAT, verified: Burkina Faso (with Mali and Niger) withdrew from ECOWAS/CEDEAO in January 2025 as part of the Alliance des Etats du Sahel (AES), but that withdrawal did NOT affect UEMOA/BCEAO membership. Burkina Faso remains a full member of the monetary union, keeps the XOF (franc CFA), and remains subject to BCEAO monetary policy; BCEAO continues to publish Burkina Faso auctions and statistics as a member state. Access note: bceao.int is reachable and serves French-language HTML plus PDF communiques; the CPM communique is also mirrored as a PDF under /sites/default/files/2026-03/.",
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RESPONSE TIME
90d UPTIME 100%
UPTIME 90D 100%
AVG RESP 570ms
TOTAL CHECKS 28
RECENT CHECKS
TIME STATUS RESP
● OK 551ms
● OK 457ms
● OK 514ms
● OK 470ms
● OK 472ms
● OK 479ms
● OK 561ms
● OK 742ms
● OK 451ms
● OK 583ms
● OK 553ms
● OK 574ms
● OK 510ms
● OK 591ms
● OK 477ms
● OK 483ms
● OK 352ms
● OK 415ms
OVER TIME
All charts share the 90d window selected here. Every series is also served as JSON at /api/v1/services/afriref-pan-african-government-reference-data/price, /scores, /volume and /buyers. On-chain volume and distinct buyers are measured over the service's settlement address and are a conservative undercount (only settlements that reach a measured facilitator are counted). The on-chain series roll up hourly, so the latest day can be up to about an hour behind; distinct buyers are counted per payout address, so a service that settles to more than one address is an upper bound.
PRICE (captured 402, USD)
Median across 3 endpoints. Use the selector to isolate one.
SUB-SCORES (uptime + x402 compliance)
VOLUME (on-chain settlement, USD)
DISTINCT BUYERS
COMPLIANCE
11/11 checks pass · grade A- 402 payload captured
- accepts[] array present
- payTo address recoverable
- payTo at accepts[0].payTo (conformant shape)
- payTo is a valid on-chain address
- atomic price declared
- atomic price in a sane range
- asset (token) address declared
- network resolves to CAIP-2
- payment scheme declared
- served over HTTPS
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