Nicky

Discover and pay Nicky cryptocurrency payment requests on behalf of users. Covers payment request lookup, asset selection, wallet address generation, transaction reporting, and confirmation polling via REST API and MCP — no authentication required for the payment flow.

Nicky Payments

Pay Nicky cryptocurrency payment requests on behalf of a user, end to end.

Nicky is a crypto payment platform where a receiver creates a short payment link (https://pay.nicky.me/s/ABCDE for their profile, or https://pay.nicky.me/payment-report/ABCDE?paymentId=VWXYZ for a specific request). Anyone — including an AI agent — can discover the request, receive a wallet address, and send funds. Nicky handles on-chain monitoring, asset conversion, and confirmation.

URL Formats

When sharing a Nicky link with a user, use these canonical formats:

• Profile: https://pay.nicky.me/s/ABCDE where ABCDE is the user's short ID
• Payment request: https://pay.nicky.me/payment-report/ABCDE?paymentId=VWXYZ where ABCDE is the receiver's short ID and VWXYZ is the payment request / bill short ID

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Pay a Nicky request: "Pay pay.nicky.me/payment-report/ABCDE?paymentId=VWXYZ" or "Pay request #VWXYZ"
• Send crypto to a Nicky payment link shared in chat
• Check whether a Nicky payment attempt has been confirmed
• Report a blockchain transaction hash to speed up a pending Nicky payment
• Look up the assets a Nicky receiver accepts

If the user only wants to receive crypto on Nicky, do not use this skill — direct them to https://pay.nicky.me to sign up.

Quick start

The full payment flow runs without authentication. The agent drives the user-facing conversation; the API does the rest.

1. Resolve the short ID from the message or URL. Accepted forms:
   • pay.nicky.me/payment-report/ABCDE?paymentId=VWXYZ → shortId = "VWXYZ" (use the paymentId value)
   • #VWXYZ → shortId = "VWXYZ"
   • pay.nicky.me/s/ABCDE (profile) → no payment request; direct the user to a specific request first
2. Discover the request — see REST API → Get payment request. Returned payload includes the receiver (receiverUser), description, invoiceReference, totalAmount, openAmount, nativeAssetId, status, and the list of availableAssets.
3. Ask the user for payerName and payerEmail (the receiver uses these to identify who paid). Never invent them.
4. Pick an asset — prefer the native asset of the request; otherwise pick one the receiver accepts and let Nicky convert (the exact converted amount is returned by start-payment).
5. Start the payment — see REST API → Start payment. Capture paymentAttemptId, walletAddress, amountToSend, assetId, memo (if present), paymentRequestShortId, and expiresAt. The address lease is valid for 30 minutes.
6. Instruct the user (or the agent's own wallet) to send the exact amountToSend of the chosen asset to walletAddress before expiresAt. If the exact amount is impractical (e.g. gas), warn that the deposit is matched with ±2% tolerance. If memo is non-null, include it.
7. (Recommended) Report the tx hash as soon as the transaction is broadcast — see REST API → Report transaction. This skips deposit polling and jumps straight to blockchain validation, which can save minutes.
8. Poll for confirmation every 15–30 s — see REST API → Payment progress. Stop when status == "Confirmed" OR isPaid == true.

Status values

GET /payment/progress returns one of:

Status	Meaning	Agent action
Pending	Waiting for the transaction to appear on-chain or in the queue	Keep polling (or wait for the report-tx call)
Received	Transaction detected, waiting for confirmations	Keep polling
Confirmed	Confirmed, matched to the request, and credited	Stop polling — report success to the user
Expired	30-minute window closed before any matching deposit	Tell the user, offer to start a new attempt

Critical rules

These are the rules agents most often get wrong. Read them carefully.

• Never invent payer details. payerName and payerEmail are required and are shown to the receiver. Always ask the user.
• Send the exact quoted amount. The amountToSend returned by start-payment is the amount that will be matched. Sending more or less than ±2% risks the deposit being un-matched.
• Honor the 30-minute window. Funds sent after expiresAt may not auto-match. If the window has expired, call start-payment again — it is idempotent for the same payer + request + asset, so a fresh address will be issued and the prior attempt can be abandoned.
• Memo matters. If the response includes a memo (destination tag for networks that need one), pass it to the wallet or the funds may not be credited.
• No API key is required for the public payment flow. If the user supplies an API key (NICKY_API_KEY) the private MCP endpoint exposes account, nick, balance, billing, credit, payment-request, payment-report, and webhook tools — see MCP reference.

MCP server (preferred for MCP-capable agents)

If the host supports MCP, prefer connecting to the public MCP endpoint — it exposes the same tools as the REST flow and avoids hand-built HTTP calls.

• Public MCP (no auth): https://api-public.pay.nicky.me/mcp-public/
  • Tools: GetPaymentRequest, StartPayment, ReportTransaction, GetPaymentProgress, SearchNicks
• Private MCP (X-Api-Key: $NICKY_API_KEY): https://api-public.pay.nicky.me/mcp/
  • All public tools plus GetCurrentUser, UpdateCurrentUser, GetAllNicks, AddNicks, GetBalances, GetAcceptedAssets, GetEnabledAssetConnections, GetDepositAddress, GetConversionRate, GetUnusedConversionQuote, CreatePaymentRequest, GetPaymentRequests, GetPaymentRequestById, GetPaymentRequestByShortId, CancelPaymentRequest, FinishPaymentRequest, GetPaymentReports, GetPaymentReportById, GetPaymentReportsByBillShortId, GetCreditBalance, GetCreditBalanceForSubAccount, ListCreditTransfers, TransferCredits, GetBillingGroups, ListSubAccounts, UnlinkSubAccount, CreateSubAccount, CreateWebHook, ListWebHooks, DeleteWebHook, Echo
• Server card: https://api-public.pay.nicky.me/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

See MCP reference for tool signatures.

Payment processing pipeline (for setting expectations)

After a payer sends funds, Nicky's backend runs a sequence of background workers to discover, validate, match, and finalize the payment.

Stage	What happens	Polling interval
Deposit discovery	Exchange connector polled for new deposits	every 30 s
Blockchain validation	On-chain tx verified; 10+ confirmations required	every 60 s
Transaction matching	Deposit matched to the payer's 30-minute address lease (±2% amount tolerance)	every 35 s
Payment report creation	Report linked to the payment request	every 45 s
Finalization	Fraud/blacklist checks, quote validation, confirmation email sent	every 61 s

Typical end-to-end confirmation time:

• TRC-20 / Polygon: 3–8 minutes
• Ethereum: 5–15 minutes
• Bitcoin: 60–120 minutes

Speed up confirmation: submit the tx hash via report-transaction immediately after broadcasting. This skips deposit polling and jumps straight to blockchain validation.

Failure modes & recovery

Symptom	Likely cause	Recovery
payment-request returns 404	Unknown short ID	Ask the user to re-check the link / short ID
start-payment returns 422 / conflict	Request already paid or expired	Re-fetch the request; if openAmount == 0, tell the user the request is settled
progress stays Pending > 5 min on TRC-20	Tx not yet broadcast or wrong network	Confirm with the user that the tx was sent to the exact walletAddress and the memo
progress returns Error from the pipeline	MaxCheckCount, blacklist, invalid quote	Contact [e-mail] with the paymentAttemptId — do not retry the same attempt
progress returns Expired	30-minute window closed	Start a new attempt

References

• REST API reference — every endpoint, request body, and response field
• MCP reference — MCP tool signatures and examples
• OpenAPI spec (agents)
• OpenAPI spec (full public API)
• Interactive API docs
• Agent integration guide
• Nicky llms.txt — LLM-facing platform overview

Support

For payment issues, direct the user to [e-mail] and include the paymentAttemptId and (if available) the transactionHash. Do not invent status updates — only what GET /payment/progress returns is authoritative.