Get the current balance of a specific vault. Retrieves the current balance information for a specific vault, including available funds, locked funds, and total balance. This is essential for understanding the financial state of a vault before executing trades or withdrawals.
AI agents call paradex_vault_balance to retrieve information from Paradex MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
vault_address | string | — | The address of the vault to get balance for. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
This tool queries and returns vault balance information (available funds, locked funds, total balance) without modifying, creating, deleting, or executing anything. It is a pure read operation to monitor financial state. While it accesses financial data, it does not move money or create financial obligations, so it is Read rather than Financial.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'paradex_vault_balance' and description 'Get the current balance of a specific vault' and 'Retrieves the current balance information' indicate a data retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access paradex_vault_balance gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Paradex MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for paradex_vault_balance:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"paradex_vault_balance": {}
}
}paradex_vault_balance is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the current balance of a specific vault. Retrieves the current balance information for a specific vault, including available funds, locked funds, and total balance. This is essential for understanding the financial state of a vault before executing trades or withdrawals. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Paradex MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
paradex_vault_balance accepts 1 parameter: vault_address. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Paradex MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for paradex_vault_balance: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Paradex MCP Server. Nothing to install.
paradex_vault_balance is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the paradex_vault_balance rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for paradex_vault_balance. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
paradex_vault_balance is provided by the Paradex MCP Server MCP server (tradeparadex/mcp-paradex-py). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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16 Paradex MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.