CCXT

CCXT is an open-source (MIT) cryptocurrency trading library that wraps the public and private APIs of 100+ crypto exchanges and prediction markets behind one unified API, in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go, Java and Rust (npm ccxt 4.5.85). It is a client library, not a hosted HTTP API: there is no CCXT server endpoint and no OpenAPI. It also ships a local stdio MCP server (npm ccxt-mcp), a CLI, and AI coding skills.

CCXT is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Exchange, and Open Source.

CCXT’s developer surface includes support, getting-started guide, documentation, SDKs, CLI, changelog, and 12 more developer resources.

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14.9/100 emerging ▼ -5.3 Agent 0/100 human only Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs

Company Cryptocurrency Trading Exchange Open Source SDK MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 14.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 38.1 — up to +12.4 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

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

CCXT Unified API (library)

Unified in-process library API (fetchTicker, fetchOrderBook, createOrder, fetchBalance, etc.) across 100+ exchanges. Not an HTTP service; exchange REST/WebSocket endpoints belon...

CCXT MCP Server (local stdio)

Official MCP server run locally over stdio (npx -y ccxt-mcp); API keys stay on the user machine. Nothing is hosted.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ccxt Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

Packages

GitHubRepository

SDK

SDK

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ccxt
name: CCXT
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://docs.ccxt.com/og/home
description: 'CCXT is an open-source (MIT) cryptocurrency trading library that wraps the public and private APIs of 100+ crypto
  exchanges and prediction markets behind one unified API, in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go, Java and Rust (npm
  ccxt 4.5.85). It is a client library, not a hosted HTTP API: there is no CCXT server endpoint and no OpenAPI. It also ships
  a local stdio MCP server (npm ccxt-mcp), a CLI, and AI coding skills.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ccxt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:market-gap
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-13'
modified: '2026-10-13'
tags:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Trading
- Exchange
- Open Source
- SDK
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Trading
- Exchanges
- Open Source
- SDK
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/ccxt-help-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ccxt-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/ccxt-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ccxt-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ccxt-packages.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://help.ccxt.com/en/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.ccxt.com/en/collections/19730829-getting-started
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.ccxt.com/playground
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ccxt-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://docs.ccxt.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/manual
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ccxt-llms.txt
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- type: SDK
  name: npm ccxt
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccxt
- type: SDK
  name: PyPI ccxt
  url: https://pypi.org/project/ccxt/
- type: CLI
  url: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/cli
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/changelog
apis:
- aid: ccxt:ccxt-unified-api
  name: CCXT Unified API (library)
  description: Unified in-process library API (fetchTicker, fetchOrderBook, createOrder, fetchBalance, etc.) across 100+ exchanges.
    Not an HTTP service; exchange REST/WebSocket endpoints belong to each exchange.
  humanURL: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/manual
  tags:
  - Cryptocurrency
  - Trading
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/manual
- aid: ccxt:ccxt-mcp-server
  name: CCXT MCP Server (local stdio)
  description: Official MCP server run locally over stdio (npx -y ccxt-mcp); API keys stay on the user machine. Nothing is
    hosted.
  humanURL: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ccxt.com/docs/mcp
  - type: SDK
    name: npm ccxt-mcp
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccxt-mcp
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-10-13'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company publishes no developer documentation host and no machine-readable contract on its own domain
  evidence:
  - url: https://docs.ccxt.com
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  status: enriched
  pass: local-v5
  date: '2026-10-13'

CCXT API — frequently asked questions

Does CCXT have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from CCXT, including CCXT Unified API (library) and CCXT MCP Server (local stdio).

Is the CCXT API ready for AI agents?

CCXT has a Kin Score of 14.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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