# Independent Reserve

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/independent-reserve/  
**Website:** https://www.independentreserve.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Independent Reserve is an Australian cryptocurrency exchange (also serving New Zealand and Singapore) for personal, business, trust and institutional clients. It publishes a JSON-over-HTTPS trading API at https://api.independentreserve.com with Public (unauthenticated GET) and Private (HMAC-SHA256 signed POST) methods for market data, orders, accounts, deposits and withdrawals, a request-for-quote (RFQ) surface, and a WebSockets market-data feed.

## Kin Score — 27.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-10.9 from 38.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 58.9 |
| Contract Quality | 26.0 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 27.3 (matched via weak_tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

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

## APIs (3)

- **Independent Reserve WebSockets API** — WebSockets feed for order book and ticker data, documented with samples in the independentreserve/websockets GitHub repository.
- **Independent Reserve Private API** — The Private API from Independent Reserve — 18 operation(s) for private.
- **Independent Reserve Public API** — The Public API from Independent Reserve — 18 operation(s) for public.

## Security (3)

- **Independent Reserve Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **Independent Reserve Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Independent Reserve Vulnerability Disclosure** — no policy recorded

## Tags

Company, Cryptocurrency, Exchange, Trading, Bitcoin, Financial Services

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