CoinSwitch

CoinSwitch is one of India's largest retail crypto investing platforms, based in Bengaluru and backed by a16z, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital. Alongside its consumer buy/sell app it operates CoinSwitch PRO, a professional trading venue that exposes a public REST and WebSocket API for programmatic trading. The CoinSwitch PRO API (base https://coinswitch.co/trade/api/v2) covers Spot trading on INR and USDT pairs, USDT-margined Perpetual Futures with up to 100x leverage, low-latency High-Frequency Trading (HFT) endpoints, and Options (private beta). Developers can place, cancel, and track orders, read portfolios and trading fees, and subscribe to real-time order, balance, and candlestick streams over Socket.IO. Requests authenticate with an API key and an Ed25519 request signature (X-AUTH-APIKEY / X-AUTH-SIGNATURE / X-AUTH-EPOCH), with reference signing implementations published for Python, Java, Go, and Node.js.

CoinSwitch publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Exchange, Trading, and Fintech.

The CoinSwitch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

CoinSwitch’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, changelog, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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38.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyCryptocurrencyCrypto ExchangeTradingFintechFuturesSpot TradingWebSocketIndia

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 38.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

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

CoinSwitch PRO Trading API

Professional REST + WebSocket trading API for Spot (INR/USDT), USDT-margined Perpetual Futures, HFT, and Options on the CoinSwitch PRO venue. Ed25519 request signing; v2 base pa...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

coinswitch-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: coinswitch
name: CoinSwitch
description: CoinSwitch is one of India's largest retail crypto investing platforms, based in Bengaluru and backed by a16z,
  Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital. Alongside its consumer buy/sell app it operates CoinSwitch PRO, a professional trading venue
  that exposes a public REST and WebSocket API for programmatic trading. The CoinSwitch PRO API (base https://coinswitch.co/trade/api/v2)
  covers Spot trading on INR and USDT pairs, USDT-margined Perpetual Futures with up to 100x leverage, low-latency High-Frequency
  Trading (HFT) endpoints, and Options (private beta). Developers can place, cancel, and track orders, read portfolios and
  trading fees, and subscribe to real-time order, balance, and candlestick streams over Socket.IO. Requests authenticate with
  an API key and an Ed25519 request signature (X-AUTH-APIKEY / X-AUTH-SIGNATURE / X-AUTH-EPOCH), with reference signing implementations
  published for Python, Java, Go, and Node.js.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coinswitch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/img/social-card.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- paradigm
- ribbit-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Crypto Exchange
- Trading
- Fintech
- Futures
- Spot Trading
- WebSocket
- India
apis:
- name: CoinSwitch PRO Trading API
  description: Professional REST + WebSocket trading API for Spot (INR/USDT), USDT-margined Perpetual Futures, HFT, and Options
    on the CoinSwitch PRO venue. Ed25519 request signing; v2 base path /trade/api/v2.
  humanURL: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/
  baseURL: https://coinswitch.co/trade/api/v2
  tags:
  - Trading
  - Spot
  - Futures
  - HFT
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/get-started/introduction
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/get-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/resources/reference-client
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/coinswitch-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/coinswitch-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/coinswitch-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/coinswitch-conventions.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/coinswitch-streams-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://coinswitch.co
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/get-started/introduction
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/resources/reference-client
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/get-started/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://coinswitch.co/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://coinswitch.co/faqs
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.coinswitch.co
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://coinswitch.co/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://coinswitch.co/privacy-policy
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://api-trading.coinswitch.co/resources/changelog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/coinswitch-changelog.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/coinswitch-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/coinswitch-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/coinswitch-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/coinswitch-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/coinswitch-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/coinswitch-conventions.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/coinswitch-streams-webhooks.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/coinswitch-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/coinswitch-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/coinswitch-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/coinswitch-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence