Bigchaindb

BigchainDB is an open-source blockchain database that combines the developer experience and query power of a database with blockchain properties: decentralized (Byzantine fault-tolerant) control, immutable append-only data storage, and built-in support for registering and transferring assets. Developed by BigchainDB GmbH (Berlin) with the IPDB Foundation overseeing the software and public networks, it exposes a simple versioned HTTP API on each node (default port 9984) for creating and reading transactions, assets, outputs, metadata, blocks and validators. Applications sign transactions with Ed25519 crypto-conditions, so authorization is enforced at the payload level rather than via transport authentication. Official Python, JavaScript and Java drivers are published, and the maintained continuation of the codebase is the Planetmint project.

Bigchaindb publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Assets API, Blocks API, Metadata API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto, Blockchain, Database, and Decentralization.

Bigchaindb’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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35.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

7 APIs

CompanyCryptoBlockchainDatabaseDecentralizationDistributed LedgerAssetsImmutability

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Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bigchaindb
name: Bigchaindb
description: 'BigchainDB is an open-source blockchain database that combines the developer experience and query power of a
  database with blockchain properties: decentralized (Byzantine fault-tolerant) control, immutable append-only data storage,
  and built-in support for registering and transferring assets. Developed by BigchainDB GmbH (Berlin) with the IPDB Foundation
  overseeing the software and public networks, it exposes a simple versioned HTTP API on each node (default port 9984) for
  creating and reading transactions, assets, outputs, metadata, blocks and validators. Applications sign transactions with
  Ed25519 crypto-conditions, so authorization is enforced at the payload level rather than via transport authentication. Official
  Python, JavaScript and Java drivers are published, and the maintained continuation of the codebase is the Planetmint project.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- anthemis
- earlybird
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://github.com/bigchaindb.png
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Database
- Decentralization
- Distributed Ledger
- Assets
- Immutability
apis:
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-assets-api
  name: Bigchaindb Assets API
  description: Full-text search over asset payloads.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Assets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-blocks-api
  name: Bigchaindb Blocks API
  description: Read blocks by height or by contained transaction.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Blocks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-blocks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-metadata-api
  name: Bigchaindb Metadata API
  description: Full-text search over transaction metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-outputs-api
  name: Bigchaindb Outputs API
  description: List transaction outputs by public key.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Outputs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-outputs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-root-api
  name: Bigchaindb Root API
  description: Node discovery endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Root
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-root-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-transactions-api
  name: Bigchaindb Transactions API
  description: Create and read transactions (CREATE and TRANSFER operations).
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Transactions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-transactions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
- aid: bigchaindb:bigchaindb-validators-api
  name: Bigchaindb Validators API
  description: Read the node's validator set.
  humanURL: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  baseURL: https://test.ipdb.io:9984
  tags:
  - Validators
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bigchaindb-validators-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bigchaindb-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bigchaindb-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bigchaindb-llms.txt
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.bigchaindb.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bigchaindb
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bigchaindb.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bigchaindb.com/privacy/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bigchaindb.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Bigchaindb

Kin Score

APIs 7

Bigchaindb Assets API

Bigchaindb Blocks API

Bigchaindb Metadata API

Bigchaindb Outputs API

Bigchaindb Root API

Bigchaindb Transactions API

Bigchaindb Validators API

Security Posture 1

Bigchaindb Authentication

Resources