# Shapeshift

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shapeshift/  
**Website:** https://shapeshift.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 45.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 45.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 56.9 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 39.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 42.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Shapeshift MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Shapeshift Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Shapeshift Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Shapeshift Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

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

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