niche · 0.0 market domain

Layer 1

Score 18.7 / 100 26 providers 2 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (26)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (2)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
36.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
8.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Blockchain broader

Related tags

EVM 14 co-occurrences JSON-RPC 12 co-occurrences Smart Contracts 13 co-occurrences DeFi 12 co-occurrences Blockchain 25 co-occurrences Web3 19 co-occurrences Cryptocurrency 10 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag26
Api tag2

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 26 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Layer 1, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
26
all scored
Mean Kin Score
32.2
+8.2 vs catalog 24
Mean Agent Readiness
18.4
+6.0 vs catalog 12.4
Spread
8–58.8
median 31.9 · σ 12
How the 26 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 1Developing 5Thin 13Emerging 5Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 50.3 23.4 +26.9 26
Operational Transparency 25.9 14 +11.9 26
Discoverability 72.7 61 +11.7 26
Contract Quality 29 20.1 +8.9 26
Contract Governance 5.8 6.5 -0.7 26
Access Clarity 17.4 26.5 -9.1 26

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 27% 10% +17
MCP server (first-party) 31% 13% +18
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 8% 11% -3
Security 100% 96% +4
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 12% 13% -1

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Aptos 58.8
  2. 2 Aeternity 51.7
  3. 3 Supra 50
  4. 4 Aelf 43
  5. 5 Injective 42.4
  6. 6 ThunderCore 40.9
  7. 7 Nervos 38.4
  8. 8 Hyperliquid 37.9
  9. 9 Monad 37.7
  10. 10 Meter 36.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Aeternity 49.3
  2. 2 Aelf 37.3
  3. 3 Supra 35.6
  4. 4 Futureverse 35.3
  5. 5 Nervos 34.9
  6. 6 Injective 29.7
  7. 7 Unto Labs 27.9
  8. 8 Aptos 25.5
  9. 9 Sei 25.5
  10. 10 Kadena 22.7
All 26 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 20 September 2026, across 27620 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Work with this as data

Every tag here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for tags

7 MCP tools reach this
  • find_tagsBrowse and filter every tag in the catalog.
  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
This tag
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/layer-1"
All tags
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags?limit=25"
As a scored cohort
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/cohorts/tag/layer-1"
The distribution (Pro)
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/cohorts/tag/layer-1/stats" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIS_IO_KEY"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.