Digital Assets API frequently asked questions

A Digital Assets API is an interface for data or operations involving digital assets. The term can refer to market data, blockchain RPC or indexed data, private accounts, trading, tokenization, compliance, or tax reporting. The consumer and authority should be defined before providers are compared.

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A common envelope can cover markets, trades, timestamps, assets, and source metadata, but CEX order-book events and DEX onchain swaps retain different execution, finality, fee, and liquidity semantics. Normalization should not erase those differences.

Share product concepts such as network, transaction, transfer, asset, and balance, while preserving chain-native evidence such as Ethereum logs and receipts or Solana slots, accounts, and instructions.

Beyond mint and transfer, the API usually needs assets, legal structures, token classes, identity and eligibility, subscriptions, issuance, servicing, valuation, reserves, settlement, redemptions, corporate actions, and reconciliation.

Last or market price reflects execution, index price reflects a reference methodology, and mark price is a venue-defined fair-price value often used for risk. APIs should expose them separately.

Not responsibly by default. High frequency trading depends on specialized networking, venue protocols, deterministic performance, and microstructure controls. General APIs may support lower-frequency execution, monitoring, or research.

Return structured evidence, provider and data timestamps, policy version, decision state, reason codes, and review status. A vendor score should not be presented as a permanent legal conclusion.

Use an immutable source ledger, normalized event types, explicit transfer matching, versioned lot and basis calculations, price provenance, reconciliation, unresolved-item queues, and report outputs linked back to evidence.

Long-lived provider secrets belong in a protected server environment. Clients authenticate to a gateway that enforces permissions and returns the application’s canonical data.

AI can summarize structured facts and assist review, but authoritative calculations, permissions, policy checks, signing, and final decisions should remain in deterministic systems with human governance where required.