Perp

Perp (Perpetual Protocol) is a decentralized derivatives protocol backed by Multicoin Capital. Its Curie (v2) generation ran on-chain perpetual futures on Optimism via audited smart contracts, a public GraphQL subgraph on The Graph, and an official TypeScript SDK (@perp/sdk-curie). The team has since pivoted to perp.com, a leveraged on-chain prediction-market platform ("perpetual futures for your predictions") offering up to 5x leverage on elections, macro, sports, and cultural outcomes with orderbook-driven, no-expiry positions and funding-rate rebalancing. The perp.com V1 Market Maker API is now documented in detail (a signed WebSocket + REST interface with HMAC-SHA256 auth, bulk order commands, a dead-man switch, private/public WebSocket streams, per-key rate limits, and a full MM_* error registry) though the api.perp.com host is not yet publicly reachable (V1 testnet). The other concrete developer surface is the Curie (v2) GraphQL subgraph, the TypeScript SDK, and the on-chain contract packages published to npm under the @perp scope.

Perp publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto Web3, DeFi, Derivatives, and Perpetual Futures.

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

Perp’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, authentication, sandbox, and 17 more developer resources.

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29.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware self hosted · BSD-3-Clause Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

2 APIs

Company Crypto Web3 DeFi Derivatives Perpetual Futures Prediction Markets Optimism GraphQL Blockchain SDK

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 29.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.6 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.7 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Open Source Surface 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 2

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

Perpetual Protocol Curie v2 Subgraph

Public GraphQL subgraph indexing the Perpetual Protocol Curie (v2) perpetual futures protocol on Optimism (positions, markets, trades, liquidations, funding). Served via The Gra...

Perp V1 Market Maker API

Signed, high-performance interface for connecting trading bots to the perp.com V1 matching engine: a private WebSocket trading channel, a public WebSocket market-data channel, a...

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Perp Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Perp Market Maker Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Perp Authentication

apiKey/hmac · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Perp Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Webhooks

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: perp
name: Perp
description: Perp (Perpetual Protocol) is a decentralized derivatives protocol backed by Multicoin Capital. Its Curie (v2)
  generation ran on-chain perpetual futures on Optimism via audited smart contracts, a public GraphQL subgraph on The Graph,
  and an official TypeScript SDK (@perp/sdk-curie). The team has since pivoted to perp.com, a leveraged on-chain prediction-market
  platform ("perpetual futures for your predictions") offering up to 5x leverage on elections, macro, sports, and cultural
  outcomes with orderbook-driven, no-expiry positions and funding-rate rebalancing. The perp.com V1 Market Maker API is now
  documented in detail (a signed WebSocket + REST interface with HMAC-SHA256 auth, bulk order commands, a dead-man switch,
  private/public WebSocket streams, per-key rate limits, and a full MM_* error registry) though the api.perp.com host is not
  yet publicly reachable (V1 testnet). The other concrete developer surface is the Curie (v2) GraphQL subgraph, the TypeScript
  SDK, and the on-chain contract packages published to npm under the @perp scope.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: BSD-3-Clause
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5022617/167766554-055c9785-00ec-4a5a-86ac-a4b3e1a42e76.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- multicoin-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto Web3
- DeFi
- Derivatives
- Perpetual Futures
- Prediction Markets
- Optimism
- GraphQL
- Blockchain
- SDK
apis:
- name: Perpetual Protocol Curie v2 Subgraph
  description: Public GraphQL subgraph indexing the Perpetual Protocol Curie (v2) perpetual futures protocol on Optimism (positions,
    markets, trades, liquidations, funding). Served via The Graph hosted service and Satsuma.
  humanURL: https://thegraph.com/hosted-service/subgraph/perpetual-protocol/perpetual-v2-optimism
  baseURL: https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/perpetual-protocol/perpetual-v2-optimism
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Subgraph
  - Optimism
  - DeFi
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/perpetual-protocol/perpetual-v2-optimism
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/perpetual-protocol/perp-curie-subgraph
- name: Perp V1 Market Maker API
  description: 'Signed, high-performance interface for connecting trading bots to the perp.com V1 matching engine: a private
    WebSocket trading channel, a public WebSocket market-data channel, and a secondary REST read API under /api/v1/mm. Auth
    is HMAC-SHA256 (API key + secret). Documented; host api.perp.com not yet publicly reachable (V1 testnet).'
  humanURL: https://perp.com/docs/market-maker-api
  baseURL: https://api.perp.com/api/v1/mm
  x-status: documented-testnet
  tags:
  - REST
  - WebSocket
  - Trading
  - Derivatives
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://perp.com/docs/market-maker-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/perp-authentication.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/perp-market-maker-webhooks.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/perp-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/perp-error-codes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/perpetual-protocol/perp-curie-subgraph/issues
- type: License
  name: BSD-3-Clause
  url: https://github.com/perpetual-protocol/perp-curie-subgraph/blob/develop/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://perp.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://perp.com/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://perp.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://perp.com/docs/market-maker-api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/perpetual-protocol
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.gg/perpdotcom
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/perpdotcom
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/perpetual-protocol/sdk-curie
- type: Packages
  url: packages/perp-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/perp-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/perp-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/perp-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/perp-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/perp-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/perp-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/perp-error-codes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/perp-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/perp-market-maker-webhooks.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/perp-sandbox.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/perp-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1

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