Shakepay

Shakepay (Shake Labs Inc.) is a regulated Canadian cryptocurrency platform headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, serving 1,500,000+ Canadians with commission-free buying, selling, and on-chain movement of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC via Interac e-Transfer. Beyond trading it offers a Visa prepaid card that earns up to 1.5% back in bitcoin (#shakepaid), recurring dollar-cost- averaging buys, interest paid weekly in bitcoin on CAD/USD balances, peer-to- peer transfers, bill pay, and the daily ShakingSats reward. Shakepay is a CIRO member, a registered Investment Dealer with the AMF, registered with securities regulators across all Canadian provinces/territories, and a FINTRAC money-services business. It does not currently publish a public developer API; it runs an experimental agent-access MCP surface (mcp.shakepay.com) alongside a public status page, security.txt bug-bounty program, and llms.txt reference.

Shakepay is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and Financial Services.

Shakepay’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 16 more developer resources.

30.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyPaymentsCryptocurrencyBitcoinFinancial ServicesCanadaFintech

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 30.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

shakepay-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Shakepay Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Shakepay Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: shakepay
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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shakepay.png
name: Shakepay
description: Shakepay (Shake Labs Inc.) is a regulated Canadian cryptocurrency platform headquartered in Montreal, Quebec,
  serving 1,500,000+ Canadians with commission-free buying, selling, and on-chain movement of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC
  via Interac e-Transfer. Beyond trading it offers a Visa prepaid card that earns up to 1.5% back in bitcoin (#shakepaid),
  recurring dollar-cost- averaging buys, interest paid weekly in bitcoin on CAD/USD balances, peer-to- peer transfers, bill
  pay, and the daily ShakingSats reward. Shakepay is a CIRO member, a registered Investment Dealer with the AMF, registered
  with securities regulators across all Canadian provinces/territories, and a FINTRAC money-services business. It does not
  currently publish a public developer API; it runs an experimental agent-access MCP surface (mcp.shakepay.com) alongside
  a public status page, security.txt bug-bounty program, and llms.txt reference.
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x-type: company
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin
- Financial Services
- Canada
- Fintech
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://shakepay.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.shakepay.com
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.shakepay.com/en/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://shakepay.com/fees
- type: SignUp
  url: https://shakepay.com/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.shakepay.com/master
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.shakepay.com/master/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shakepay
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.shakepay.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://shakepay.com/security
- type: Security
  url: https://legal.shakepay.com/v/master/bug-bounty-program
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/shakepay-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/shakepay-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/shakepay-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/shakepay-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/shakepay-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shakepay-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/shakepay-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/shakepay-lifecycle.yml
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