# Paradex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/paradex/  
**Website:** https://www.paradex.trade  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Paradex is a perpetual futures decentralized exchange (perp DEX) built on its own Starknet appchain, offering zero-fee trading of crypto, equities, FX and commodity perpetuals and options. It exposes a public REST API, a WebSocket API described in AsyncAPI, official Python and TypeScript SDKs, and hosted MCP servers for AI agents.

## Kin Score — 47.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-8.6 from 56.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.0 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Contract Governance | 28.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 34.5 |
| Access Clarity | 22.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 19.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 41.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | platform |
| Pagination Ratio | no |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

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

## APIs (21)

- **Paradex WebSocket API** — JSON-RPC over WebSocket channels for real-time market data, order book, trades, fills, orders, positions and account updates.
- **Paradex MCP Server** — Paradex-hosted public remote MCP server exposing market and vault data tools to AI clients; also distributed as the mcp-paradex Python package.
- **Paradex Account API** — The Account API from Paradex — 25 operation(s) for account.
- **Paradex Algos API** — The Algos API from Paradex — 3 operation(s) for algos.
- **Paradex Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Paradex — 5 operation(s) for authentication.
- **Paradex Block Trades API** — The BlockTrades API from Paradex — 6 operation(s) for blocktrades.
- **Paradex Insurance API** — The Insurance API from Paradex — 1 operation(s) for insurance.
- **Paradex Liquidations API** — The Liquidations API from Paradex — 1 operation(s) for liquidations.
- **Paradex Market Maker Protection API** — The MarketMakerProtection API from Paradex — 3 operation(s) for marketmakerprotection.
- **Paradex Markets API** — The Markets API from Paradex — 11 operation(s) for markets.
- **Paradex Orders API** — The Orders API from Paradex — 5 operation(s) for orders.
- **Paradex Referrals API** — The Referrals API from Paradex — 2 operation(s) for referrals.
- **Paradex Rfqs API** — The Rfqs API from Paradex — 9 operation(s) for rfqs.
- **Paradex Staking API** — The Staking API from Paradex — 5 operation(s) for staking.
- **Paradex Subkey API** — The Subkey API from Paradex — 5 operation(s) for subkey.
- **Paradex System API** — The System API from Paradex — 7 operation(s) for system.
- **Paradex Token API** — The Token API from Paradex — 4 operation(s) for token.
- **Paradex Trades API** — The Trades API from Paradex — 1 operation(s) for trades.
- **Paradex Transfers API** — The Transfers API from Paradex — 1 operation(s) for transfers.
- **Paradex Vaults API** — The Vaults API from Paradex — 10 operation(s) for vaults.
- **Paradex XP Transfers V2 API** — The XPTransfersV2 API from Paradex — 6 operation(s) for xptransfersv2.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Paradex MCP Server** — Paradex hosts a public remote MCP server at https://mcp.paradex.trade/mcp (no API key, market and vault data). The same server is published as the open-source Python package mcp...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Paradex Agentic Access** — 133 operations · 51 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

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

## Tags

Company, Cryptocurrency, Exchange, Derivatives, Trading, Perpetual Futures, DeFi, WebSocket, MCP

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