This week we have released the final part of our API that allows everyone fully manage their contracts through the application programming interface.

About

After a few months of hard work we are introducing our API that many of our customers have been asking for. A month ago we released the first part of our API, which allows our customers to fetch and manage offers. This update allows you to fully operate your contracts and effectively perform trades without visiting the website.

To be precise, you can now:

Get your contracts

Create new contracts

Change the status of contracts

Release bitcoins from escrow

How to use

Our API documentation can be found here: hodlhodl.com/api/docs

To enable API access and start using it, follow these steps:

Go to your profile page Click “Edit your profile” button Navigate to the “API Access” tab

On this tab you can enable API access and get your API key, which you’ll need to access the API. You can also change or disable your API key on this same page anytime.

Use cases

There are many different use cases for our API, and here are some basic ones:

Trading automation

We know that many professional traders like to automate their P2P trading processes, and our API allows this: specifically you can automatically adjust your offers’ prices and other attributes to ensure you’re at the very top of the offer list (we sort the offer list by price, showing the best deals on top).

Offer aggregators

There are many services that aggregate offers from different P2P trading platforms and show the best deals to their customers. If you’re managing one of them, you can now easily fetch existing and newly created offers from Hodl Hodl, and show them to visitors.

Also, one commonly requested feature for P2P trading platforms is a referral program, which we also have.

Wallets

Some wallets (we’re currently in the process of cooperating with one) provide their customers with P2P trading functionality through their interface. With our API, you can show offers from our trading platform to your customers, and when we release the next version of our API, you’ll be able to control contracts through their interface, effectively performing trades without visiting the website.

Next step

As of now, we’ve released the most crucial parts of our API, however, we are still planning to continue to improve it in the future.

In the near future, we are going to:

Give you access to Lightning Network contracts.

contracts. Constantly be supporting and updating our API according to the requests and feedback from our customers.

Partnerships in progress

With our API, we have already made progress with some partnerships and integrations with different services:

BlueWallet — a Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for iOS and Android is going to integrate Bitcoin Lightning trading via our trading platform.

Yadio — a BTC market search tool and provider of free-market exchange rates is going to show offers from Hodl Hodl on their site.

More partnership announcements are coming soon.

Interested in integrating Hodl Hodl into your service?

Read the documentation: hodlhodl.com/api/docs.

Contact us if you have any questions or need help through our e-mail or Telegram groups.

If you’re planning to integrate Hodl Hodl into your service in a rather complex way, or that requires special attention or new features — please contact us directly at support@hodlhodl.com and explain your use case in detail, so we can schedule a call and discuss in detail.

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