Shipyard Software

Shipyard Software is the DeFi technology company behind Clipper, a decentralized exchange (DEX) designed for retail traders that offers blue-chip token swaps with no impermanent loss for liquidity providers. Founded in 2021 by Mark Lurie and backed by Polychain and others, Shipyard built market-making technology across eight blockchains before being acquired by Sushi Labs in January 2025. Clipper, now governed by AdmiralDAO, exposes a Request-for-Quote (RFQ) swap API for DEX aggregators and a Graph-hosted GraphQL subgraph for querying on-chain pool data.

Shipyard Software is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, DeFi, Decentralized Exchange, Cryptocurrency, and Trading.

Shipyard Software’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs

Company DeFi Decentralized Exchange Cryptocurrency Trading Blockchain Web3 Liquidity RFQ

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 5.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 18/100 · 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 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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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Operational Transparency scores 4.8 — up to +12.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Procurement and B2B Buying (source-to-pay suites, spend management)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 2

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

Clipper RFQ API

Request-for-Quote swap API for the Clipper DEX. Aggregators retrieve pool state (price feeds, k factor), request firm quotes, and sign quotes to obtain the EIP-2098 signature/ca...

Clipper Subgraph (GraphQL)

GraphQL API endpoints hosted on The Graph that index Clipper's smart contracts across Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, and Arbitrum — pools, swaps, deposits, withdrawals, volume, an...

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Shipyard Software

8 quoted statements, read from Shipyard Software's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Shipyard Software

18 quoted statements, read from Shipyard Software's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Shipyard Software

4 quoted statements, read from Shipyard Software's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Shipyard Software

1 quoted statement, read from Shipyard Software's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

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

Shipyard Software Authentication

apiKey/http-basic · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Shipyard Software Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

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

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Twitter

Twitter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shipyard-software
name: Shipyard Software
description: Shipyard Software is the DeFi technology company behind Clipper, a decentralized exchange (DEX) designed for
  retail traders that offers blue-chip token swaps with no impermanent loss for liquidity providers. Founded in 2021 by Mark
  Lurie and backed by Polychain and others, Shipyard built market-making technology across eight blockchains before being
  acquired by Sushi Labs in January 2025. Clipper, now governed by AdmiralDAO, exposes a Request-for-Quote (RFQ) swap API
  for DEX aggregators and a Graph-hosted GraphQL subgraph for querying on-chain pool data.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/60df16dcc790bfc63d95ec12/61d7236cbf760c5b4af9369f_shipyard-illustrations-social.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shipyard-software/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- polychain
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- DeFi
- Decentralized Exchange
- Cryptocurrency
- Trading
- Blockchain
- Web3
- Liquidity
- RFQ
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defi
- DEX
- Decentralized Exchange
- Cryptocurrency
- Trading
- Blockchain
- Web3
- Liquidity
- RFQ
apis:
- aid: shipyard-software:clipper-rfq-api
  name: Clipper RFQ API
  description: Request-for-Quote swap API for the Clipper DEX. Aggregators retrieve pool state (price feeds, k factor), request
    firm quotes, and sign quotes to obtain the EIP-2098 signature/calldata needed to execute swaps against Clipper pool contracts
    on Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Mantle, and Arbitrum. API v2 is served from blade-api.sushi.com with x-api-key authentication;
    API v1 remains at api.clipper.exchange.
  humanURL: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq
  baseURL: https://blade-api.sushi.com
  tags:
  - DeFi
  - Decentralized Exchange
  - Swap
  - RFQ
  - Quotes
  tags_raw:
  - DeFi
  - DEX
  - Swaps
  - RFQ
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq/api-reference/api-v2/overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq/guides/how-to-use-clipper-rfq-api
- aid: shipyard-software:clipper-subgraph
  name: Clipper Subgraph (GraphQL)
  description: GraphQL API endpoints hosted on The Graph that index Clipper's smart contracts across Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon,
    and Arbitrum — pools, swaps, deposits, withdrawals, volume, and fee data for analytics and integrations.
  humanURL: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/smart-contracts/subgraph
  baseURL: https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/edoapp/clipper
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Subgraph
  - Analytics
  - DeFi
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/smart-contracts/subgraph
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/shipyard-software-clipper-subgraph.graphql
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shipyard-software-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shipyardsoftware.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.clipper.exchange
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq/api-reference/api-v2/overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/integrating-with-clipper-rfq/guides/how-to-use-clipper-rfq-api
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.shipyardsoftware.org/journal
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shipyard-software
- type: Support
  url: http://discord.clipper.exchange
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://docs.clipper.exchange/disclaimers-and-technical/privacy-policy
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/shipyardsw
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/shipyard-software-llms.txt
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/shipyard-software-problem-types.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shipyard-software-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/shipyard-software-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/shipyard-software-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/shipyard-software-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/shipyard-software-data-model.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/shipyard-software-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/shipyard-software-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/shipyard-software-eligibility.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/shipyard-software-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1

Shipyard Software API — frequently asked questions

Does Shipyard Software have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Shipyard Software, including Clipper RFQ API and Clipper Subgraph (GraphQL).

How do I authenticate with the Shipyard Software API?

Shipyard Software uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http-basic · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Shipyard Software Authentication.

Is the Shipyard Software API ready for AI agents?

Shipyard Software has a Kin Score of 33.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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