# Based

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/based/  
**Website:** https://based.one/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Based is a consumer crypto super app built on Hyperliquid that unifies trading, prediction markets, and real-world payments in a single self-custody account. Users trade spot and perpetual futures with sub-second execution and deep liquidity, speculate on prediction markets, and spend crypto from Solana, Arbitrum, and Polygon at 70+ million Visa merchants across 160+ countries via Based debit cards, including the premium Gold+ card. BasedCloud lets partners spin up white-label Hyperliquid trading frontends (web, mobile, desktop, Telegram), and a three-tiered affiliate program amplifies Hyperliquid referral fees. Based is backed by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, Ethena, and Spartan Group. It publishes consumer product docs on GitBook and an agent-oriented llms.txt index, but exposes no public developer API of its own — programmatic trading runs on the underlying Hyperliquid API.

## Kin Score — 11.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 21.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Based Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Payments, Prediction Markets, Hyperliquid, Web3, Debit Cards, Self-Custody

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/based/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.