Rift

Rift is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that routes swap orders across 20+ trading venues and cross-chain bridges to guarantee best-price execution with zero added fees. Its Router API (v3, currently in beta) lets developers request a best-price market quote for an asset swap, create a market order against that quote with an idempotency key, and check the online status of both the Rift service and each downstream execution provider (Across, CCTP, Hyperliquid, KyberSwap, and more). Rift is backed by Paradigm, WTG Ventures, Edge Capital, and 20+ angel investors.

Rift publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Orders API, Quotes API, and Status API. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto Defi, DEX Aggregator, Cross-Chain, and Trading.

The Rift catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Rift’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, and 15 more developer resources.

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29.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessOpen

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Company Crypto Defi DEX Aggregator Cross-Chain Trading Swap Bridge Best Execution

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 29.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · 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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), 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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. 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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Rift Orders API

Market order creation and execution

Rift Quotes API

Best-price quoting across routing venues

Rift Status API

Service and execution-provider health

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Rift Router Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rift Router Orders Quotes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rift Router Orders Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Swap assets with Rift

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Rift API Rules

42 rules · 40 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Rift Openapi Overlay

2 actions · update · rift-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Rift Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Rift Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: rift
name: Rift
description: Rift is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that routes swap orders across 20+ trading venues and cross-chain
  bridges to guarantee best-price execution with zero added fees. Its Router API (v3, currently in beta) lets developers request
  a best-price market quote for an asset swap, create a market order against that quote with an idempotency key, and check
  the online status of both the Rift service and each downstream execution provider (Across, CCTP, Hyperliquid, KyberSwap,
  and more). Rift is backed by Paradigm, WTG Ventures, Edge Capital, and 20+ angel investors.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rift/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.rift.trade/images/logos/rift_logo_new_glow.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- paradigm
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto Defi
- DEX Aggregator
- Cross-Chain
- Trading
- Swap
- Bridge
- Best Execution
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crypto Defi
- DEX Aggregator
- Cross-Chain
- Trading
- Swaps
- Bridge
- Best Execution
apis:
- aid: rift:rift-orders-api
  name: Rift Orders API
  description: Market order creation and execution
  humanURL: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  baseURL: https://router-gateway-v3-production.up.railway.app
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rift-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.rift.trade
- aid: rift:rift-quotes-api
  name: Rift Quotes API
  description: Best-price quoting across routing venues
  humanURL: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  baseURL: https://router-gateway-v3-production.up.railway.app
  tags:
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rift-quotes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.rift.trade
- aid: rift:rift-status-api
  name: Rift Status API
  description: Service and execution-provider health
  humanURL: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  baseURL: https://router-gateway-v3-production.up.railway.app
  tags:
  - Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rift-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.rift.trade/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.rift.trade
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v1
common:
- url: https://www.rift.trade/articles
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://rift.trade
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.rift.trade
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.rift.trade
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.rift.trade/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.rift.trade/what-is-rift
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/RIFTHQ
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/rift-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/rift-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/rift-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/rift-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/rift-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/rift-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/rift-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/rift-lifecycle.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/rift-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/rift-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/rift-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rift-domain-security.yml

Rift API — frequently asked questions

Does Rift have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Rift, including Rift Orders API, Rift Quotes API and Rift Status API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Rift API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Rift, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Rift API?

Rift uses bearer-token authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Rift Authentication.

Is the Rift API ready for AI agents?

Rift has a Kin Score of 29.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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