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Brazilayer BCB Registry

Verify whether a Brazilian company is a financial institution authorized by the Central Bank of Brazil (banks, credit unions, consortia, regulated societies), plus its officially VERIFIED internet domains, refreshed daily from the official registry. Instant check for crypto exchanges, fintechs and compliance agents onboarding Brazilian counterparties or detecting fake-bank phishing. Accepts full CNPJ or 8-digit root. Free sample, no payment: https://api.brazilayer.com/v1/bcb/amostra

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Offering

Provider
api.brazilayer.com
Method
GET
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Legal And Compliance
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://api.brazilayer.com/v1/bcb/instituicao/:cnpj
MIME type
Not provided
First seen
2026-10-16T01:50:14.534Z
Last seen
Tags
brazil, central-bank, KYC, aml, crypto-compliance

Website

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.005 USDC
Atomic price: 5000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "5000",
    "payTo": "0x3Cc1D8ee1dfdFd326c19B0884B8dF4b24B623f0c"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
294 ms
Average latency
852 ms
HTTP status
402
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 13 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "method": {
      "enum": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
      "cnpj": {
        "description": "Brazilian company tax ID (CNPJ), 14 digits, with or without punctuation (e.g. 00000000000191 or 00.000.000/0001-91)",
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "properties": {},
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "const": "http",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "pathParams": {
          "cnpj": {
            "description": "Brazilian company tax ID (CNPJ), 14 digits, with or without punctuation (e.g. 00000000000191 or 00.000.000/0001-91)",
            "type": "string"
          },
          "type": "object"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "properties": {},
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "http",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "output": {
      "properties": {
        "example": {
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}