Overview

Escape hatch for a stalled deposit bridge leg: fetches the finalized Circle attestation and returns one ready-to-sign emergencyClaimBridge transaction on the destination chain. Minted USDC goes directly to the burn-time beneficiary's wallet, bypassing the destination vault deposit. The matching intent (kind emergency_claim) is written server-side. No auth.

Eligibility (each failure is a 400 invalid_state): the transfer must be a deposit leg, not already confirmed or user_claimed, at least 30 minutes old, and its recorded beneficiary must be the strategy owner. If Circle has not finalized the attestation, the response is a 409 attestation_pending; poll on that status code.

approvalsNeeded is always []. expiresAt is nominal: the claim stays valid until the message nonce is consumed on the destination chain. A null gasHint with estimation_failed can mean the nonce was already consumed (the transfer completed normally); the on-chain result is authoritative.

Endpoint

POST https://earn-api.quicknode.dev/functions/v1/api/v1/strategies/{id}/calldata/claim

Authorization

Include the published apikey header. This endpoint is public and does not require a SIWE signature.

Rate limits

This operation belongs to the calldata rate-limit bucket. It allows 10 requests per 60 seconds, keyed by strategy+ip. A coarser limit of approximately 30 requests per 60 seconds also applies per IP across deposit, withdrawal, and claim calldata requests.

Parameters

Parameter	Location	Type	Required	Description
id	path	string	Yes	Strategy UUID.

Request body

Emergency claim request body. Public (no SIWE). Unlike deposit/withdraw an empty body is NOT valid: the route cannot pick a stalled transfer for the caller.

Field	Type	Required	Description
transferId	string	Yes	The stalled transfer's `cctp_transfers` row id (find it via `GET /v1/strategies/{id}/bridges`).

Example request

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://earn-api.quicknode.dev/functions/v1/api/v1/strategies/b7c1e2d3-0000-4000-8000-000000000001/calldata/claim' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'apikey: <EARN_PUBLIC_API_KEY>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "transferId": "9a8b7c6d-0000-4000-8000-000000000123"
}'

Response

Field	Type	Required	Description
kind	string (claim)	Yes	Identifies the response as an emergency claim calldata plan.
transactions	array<object>	Yes	Exactly one `emergencyClaimBridge` transaction, on the transfer's DESTINATION chain (transaction kind `emergency_claim`).
approvalsNeeded	array<object>	Yes	Always empty (`emergencyClaimBridge` pulls no tokens from the sender).
expiresAt	string	Yes	Advisory only — a finalized attestation stays valid until the nonce is consumed on the destination chain.
transactions[].chainId	integer	Yes	Destination chain on which to submit the claim.
transactions[].to	string	Yes	Quicknode Earn proxy on the destination chain.
transactions[].data	string	Yes	Emergency-claim calldata. Submit it verbatim.
transactions[].value	string	Yes	Native-token value. Always `"0"`.
transactions[].intentId	string	Yes	Intent UUID used to track the claim.
transactions[].kind	string (emergency_claim)	Yes	Transaction intent kind.
transactions[].description	string	Yes	Human-readable claim summary.
transactions[].gasHint	string | null	Yes	Recommended gas limit, or `null` when estimation failed.
transactions[].gasHintReason	string	No	`estimation_failed` when `gasHint` is `null`.

Example response

{
	"kind": "claim",
	"transactions": [
		{
			"chainId": 42161,
			"to": "0x48b415841165304f7EfaA7D5dD5FC65cc7B4bd8e",
			"data": "0x0f2b1a3c0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000040",
			"value": "0",
			"intentId": "7f3a1c2b-0000-4000-8000-000000000abc",
			"kind": "emergency_claim",
			"description": "Claim bridged USDC on chain 42161 directly to your wallet, bypassing the relayer and the destination vault deposit",
			"gasHint": "220000"
		}
	],
	"approvalsNeeded": [],
	"expiresAt": "2026-07-07T19:00:00.000Z"
}

HTTP responses

Status	Description
200	One emergency-claim transaction on the destination chain.
400	A malformed JSON body or `transferId` (`invalid_request`), or the transfer is not claimable (`invalid_state`: already terminal, not deposit-shaped, not 30 minutes old yet, or the beneficiary does not match the strategy owner).
404	Strategy not found (`not_found`), or no such CCTP transfer for this strategy (`transfer_not_found`; also returned when the transfer belongs to another strategy).
409	Attestation not finalized yet (`attestation_pending`). Retry after `Retry-After` seconds.
429	Rate limit exceeded. `Retry-After` (seconds) tells you when to retry. Reads, feedback, and push writes are keyed per IP; create/update/delete are keyed per wallet+IP; deposit/withdraw/claim calldata is keyed per strategy+IP.
500	Internal error (including a failed intent write), or `unsupported_chain_pair` when the transfer's chain pair has no CCTP route configured.

OpenAPI source

This page is based on operation claimCalldata in the Earn OpenAPI 3.1 specification.