Developers in the crypto space are facing a problem. The market has been scattered due to every development team trying to create their own ecosystem. Thousands of individual development teams are creating unique software that doesn’t integrate well with other software. Exchanges are a prime example in the market. Each crypto exchange has implemented a completely different set of APIs. Each having their own pitfalls, rules, and restrictions. Exchanges have no cohesive structure to how they’ve been engineered. Developers are left to maintain complex APIs that are a minefield of seemingly arbitrary deployment schedules, unexpected listings or delistings of assets, and restrictions that require even simple applications to manage a farm of hundreds of servers.

In order to facilitate the global adoption of cryptocurrency trading, our team announced that we will be taking the reigns on solving this problem. This began with the release of our Universal Exchange APIs. These APIs allow anyone to build robust applications that scale by eliminating the complexities of exchange integration, asset management, endless server scaling, trading logic, maintenance, and data collection. Without effort, developers can integrate trading functionality into their applications and scale to millions of daily trades.

In an attempt to spur some ideas on how these APIs could be used, we have constructed a short list of different applications you could develop right now with the Shrimpy API. These ideas are for anyone to take or modify. Run with these ideas or come up with your own ideas that aren’t on the list.