It can be hard determining what feature to offer next while expanding your cryptocurrency platforms and products. Platforms such as entire exchanges may look to products that increase volume or liquidity while direct to consumer product-focused offerings might look to increase user adoption or even revenue. Plugging into existing 3rd party APIs may have hidden value in the area of honing in on what you plan to roll out next. Here are a few APIs that might be worth taking a look at:

Aurora (DAO) IDEX

IDEX is the first Ethereum based decentralized smart contract exchange to support real-time trading and high transaction throughput. IDEX is the most advanced Ethereum DEX, supporting limit and market orders, gas-free cancels and the ability to fill many trades at once.

2. Vectorspace AI

The Vectorspace API provides 100 updated baskets of cryptocurrencies or stocks with known and hidden relationships to global trends, concepts and topics.

3. IOTA

IOTA is a revolutionary new, next generation public distributed ledger that utilizes a novel invention, called a “Tangle”, at its core. The Tangle is a new data structure based on a Directed Acyclic Graph. As such it has no Blocks, no Chain and also no Miners. Because of this radical new architecture, things in IOTA work quite differently compared to other Blockchains. Details are located on their developer page here.

4. coinlayer

The coinlayer REST API was built to deliver on-demand real-time or historical cryptocurrency exchange rates in JSON format. Crypto data is sourced from more than 25 worldwide exchanges, features more than 385 coins and can be accessed using any programming language, framework and device. The API is free for a limited amount of monthly API requests and can be used at premium level to gain access to features like 60-second updates, conversion and time-series endpoints, and much more.

5. Cardano

While there are similarities between Bitcoin and Cardano SL, there are also many differences between these two cryptocurrencies. The most significant difference is that Bitcoin is a proof of work type cryptocurrency, while Cardano SL makes use of a proof of stake approach to reach consensus. This encourages honesty and long term participation. The API can be found here.

Happy development trails!