# Korbit

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/korbit/  
**Website:** https://www.korbit.co.kr/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Korbit is South Korea's first cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seoul, offering KRW-denominated spot trading of bitcoin, ether and other digital assets to Korean retail and institutional customers. Korbit publishes the Korbit Open API v2, a REST and WebSocket interface covering market data (tickers, orderbook, trades, candlesticks, tick-size policy), order placement and cancellation, order and trade history, balances, cryptocurrency deposit-address management and withdrawals, and KRW deposit/withdrawal push notifications. Authentication is by API key (X-KAPI-KEY) with per-request HMAC-SHA256 or ED25519 signatures, granular key permissions and optional IP allowlisting. Korbit is unusually agent-forward for an exchange: it ships an official Go CLI with a bundled MCP server and Agent Skill, a documented llms.txt, and a downloadable local sandbox that mocks the full REST and WebSocket surface for no-risk development.

## Kin Score — 39.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (-0.6 from 39.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 66.6 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 49.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 28.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.2 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| 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 |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **Korbit Open API v2 WebSocket** — WebSocket streaming API for the Korbit exchange. Public channels stream ticker, orderbook and trade market data; private channels stream the authenticated account's order, trade...
- **Korbit Asset API** — The Asset API from Korbit — 1 operation(s) for asset.
- **Korbit Deposit (Crypto) API** — The Deposit (Crypto) API from Korbit — 3 operation(s) for deposit (crypto).
- **Korbit Deposit/Withdrawal (KRW) API** — The Deposit/Withdrawal (KRW) API from Korbit — 4 operation(s) for deposit/withdrawal (krw).
- **Korbit Other API** — The Other API from Korbit — 8 operation(s) for other.
- **Korbit Quotation API** — The Quotation API from Korbit — 6 operation(s) for quotation.
- **Korbit Trading API** — The Trading API from Korbit — 4 operation(s) for trading.
- **Korbit Withdrawal (Crypto) API** — The Withdrawal (Crypto) API from Korbit — 3 operation(s) for withdrawal (crypto).

## MCP servers (1)

- **Korbit MCP Server** — Korbit ships an official MCP server bundled inside the korbit-cli binary. It is a local stdio server (not a hosted/remote endpoint) that exposes every Korbit Open API v2 endpoin...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Korbit Agentic Access** — 34 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Korbit Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Korbit Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Digital Assets, Trading, Market Data, Financial-Services, WebSocket, South Korea, Blockchain

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