# Bison Trails

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bison-trails/  
**Website:** https://bisontrails.co/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Bison Trails Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Crypto, Blockchain, Infrastructure, Staking, Web3, Node Infrastructure

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