Bison Trails

Bison Trails was a blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2018 by Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw, offering infrastructure-as-a-service for participating in and securing proof-of-stake and other blockchain networks across dozens of protocols (staking, validators, and node infrastructure). Backed by Initialized Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and others, it was acquired by Coinbase in January 2021 and folded into Coinbase Cloud. The bisontrails.co domain now redirects to Coinbase's cloud/node infrastructure offering at coinbase.com/cloud, and no independent developer portal, documentation, or public API surface remains under the Bison Trails brand.

Bison Trails is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto, Blockchain, Infrastructure, and Staking.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyCryptoBlockchainInfrastructureStakingWeb3Node Infrastructure

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Bison Trails
description: Bison Trails was a blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2018 by Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw, offering
  infrastructure-as-a-service for participating in and securing proof-of-stake and other blockchain networks across dozens
  of protocols (staking, validators, and node infrastructure). Backed by Initialized Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and others,
  it was acquired by Coinbase in January 2021 and folded into Coinbase Cloud. The bisontrails.co domain now redirects to Coinbase's
  cloud/node infrastructure offering at coinbase.com/cloud, and no independent developer portal, documentation, or public
  API surface remains under the Bison Trails brand.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bison-trails/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- initialized-capital
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Infrastructure
- Staking
- Web3
- Node Infrastructure
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: coinbase
x-acquired-date: 2021-01
apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bison-trails-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bisontrails.co/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Bison Trails

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Bison Trails Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)