# Nano

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nano/  
**Website:** https://nano.org  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Nano is a feeless, instant digital currency using a block-lattice architecture. It provides a JSON-RPC HTTP API for querying accounts, retrieving block information, managing wallets, processing transactions, and interacting with the Nano network. Each account maintains its own blockchain, enabling fast and lightweight consensus without mining.

## Kin Score — 28.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 50.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 17.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| 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).

## APIs (8)

- **Nano Accounts API** — Account balance, history, representative, and frontier queries
- **Nano Blocks API** — Block creation, processing, signing, and querying operations
- **Nano Keys API** — Cryptographic key generation and derivation
- **Nano Ledger API** — Ledger-level queries for supply, frontiers, and account data
- **Nano Node API** — Node diagnostics, bootstrapping, peers, and confirmation management
- **Nano Unit Conversion API** — Conversion between Nano and raw unit denominations
- **Nano Wallets API** — Local wallet management for development and testing
- **Nano Work API** — Proof-of-work generation, validation, and caching

## Agentic access (1)

- **Nano Agentic Access** — 97 operations · 97 acting

## Security (1)

- **Nano Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Cryptocurrency, Payments, Blockchain, Feeless, Instant Payments, Digital Currency

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