Shapeshift

ShapeShift is a community-owned, non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency platform where users buy, hold, trade, and earn with digital assets across 48+ blockchains and 10,000+ tokens while retaining full custody of their keys. Its open-source "unchained" backend exposes a public, key-free REST and WebSocket API that provides a common interface to many blockchains — account balances, transaction history, UTXOs, raw transaction broadcast, gas/fee estimation, and realtime pending/confirmed transaction updates — behind per-chain hosts such as api.ethereum.shapeshift.com and api.bitcoin.shapeshift.com. ShapeShift was founded in 2014, is backed by Earlybird Venture Capital, and today operates as a DAO with all code public under github.com/shapeshift.

Shapeshift publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: v1 API. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.

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

Shapeshift’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 24 more developer resources.

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41.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessOpen

3 APIs

Company Cryptocurrency Blockchain Bitcoin Ethereum Web3 DeFi Wallets Trading Multi-Chain

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 41.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.9 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 8.6 / 13

Access Clarity 2.7 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.2 / 8

Contract Governance 0.4 / 8

Discoverability 5.3 / 7

Regulatory Posture 5.9 / 15

Open Source Surface 2.5 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments 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 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 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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

Shapeshift v1 API

The v1 API from Shapeshift — 14 operation(s) for v1.

Open Collections 2

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

@shapeshiftoss/bitcoin-api v1 API

OPEN COLLECTION

Event Specifications 1

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

Shapeshift Unchained Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Shapeshift Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Shapeshift Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Shapeshift Agentic Access

25 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Webhooks

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

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shapeshift
name: Shapeshift
description: ShapeShift is a community-owned, non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency platform where users buy, hold, trade,
  and earn with digital assets across 48+ blockchains and 10,000+ tokens while retaining full custody of their keys. Its open-source
  "unchained" backend exposes a public, key-free REST and WebSocket API that provides a common interface to many blockchains
  — account balances, transaction history, UTXOs, raw transaction broadcast, gas/fee estimation, and realtime pending/confirmed
  transaction updates — behind per-chain hosts such as api.ethereum.shapeshift.com and api.bitcoin.shapeshift.com. ShapeShift
  was founded in 2014, is backed by Earlybird Venture Capital, and today operates as a DAO with all code public under github.com/shapeshift.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://shapeshift.com/apple-touch-icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shapeshift/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- earlybird
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Web3
- DeFi
- Wallets
- Trading
- Multi-Chain
tags_raw:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Web3
- DeFi
- Wallet
- Trading
- Multichain
- API
apis:
- aid: shapeshift:shapeshift-v1-api
  name: Shapeshift v1 API
  description: The v1 API from Shapeshift — 14 operation(s) for v1.
  humanURL: https://api.ethereum.shapeshift.com/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.ethereum.shapeshift.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shapeshift-v1-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.ethereum.shapeshift.com/docs/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.bitcoin.shapeshift.com/docs/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.solana.shapeshift.com/docs/
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained/issues
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.MD
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained/blob/develop/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shapeshift-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shapeshift-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shapeshift-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://shapeshift.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.ethereum.shapeshift.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.ethereum.shapeshift.com/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained#readme
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/shapeshift/unchained
- type: Support
  url: https://shapeshift.com/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://shapeshift.com/blog
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.shapeshift.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://shapeshift.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://shapeshift.com/privacy-policy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/shapeshift-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/shapeshift-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/shapeshift-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: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/shapeshift-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/shapeshift-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/shapeshift-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/shapeshift-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/shapeshift-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/shapeshift-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/shapeshift-changelog.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/shapeshift-unchained-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/shapeshift-ethereum-overlay.yaml
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: 24
  pass: local-v1

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