| spot | Yes | Underlying price (> 0) | |
| payer | No | Optional wallet/account identifier; stored only as a hash | |
| apiKey | No | Free-tier / plan API key (hp_free_… or a pass key). Forwarded as X-API-Key so paid tools serve from your monthly quota with NO x402 wallet. Get a free key (250 calls/mo) at https://hermesplant.com/pricing. | |
| strike | Yes | Strike price (> 0) | |
| channel | No | Discovery channel or source tag | |
| campaign | No | Campaign tag for downstream telemetry | |
| xPayment | No | Raw X-PAYMENT proof from an x402-compatible wallet/client | |
| actorType | No | Caller type for analytics: agent, human, synthetic, system, or unknown | |
| synthetic | No | Mark this paid retry as an internal test/probe for analytics exclusion | |
| optionType | No | Option type, 'call' or 'put' (default call) | |
| volatility | Yes | Annualized volatility, e.g. 0.2 | |
| riskFreeRate | No | Annual risk-free rate, default 0 | |
| timeToExpiry | Yes | Years to expiry, e.g. 0.5 | |
| dividendYield | No | Continuous dividend yield, default 0 | |
| paymentSignature | No | x402 payment proof to forward as PAYMENT-SIGNATURE and X-PAYMENT on retry | |
| paymentIdentifier | No | Optional x402 payment identifier for idempotency/retry correlation | |