# Shipyard Software

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shipyard-software/  
**Website:** https://www.shipyardsoftware.org  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 33.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 38.9 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 41.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 27.4 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Shipyard Software Authentication** — apiKey/http-basic · 2 schemes
- **Shipyard Software Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, DeFi, DEX, Decentralized Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Trading, Blockchain, Web3, Liquidity, RFQ

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