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Protocol

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Variants seen in the corpus: ProtocolsProtocol

Providers using this tag (22)

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

Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (53)

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Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 13 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 25 Limited public surface area
Euler Finance Protocol APIProtocol-wide summary endpoints and aggregate metrics. In v3, these endpoints are explicitly summary-orient...38.5Labguru Protocols APIThe Protocols API from Labguru — 2 operation(s) for protocols.38.5Orca Protocol APIOrca protocol information endpoints37.0Tezos Protocols APIThe Protocols API from Tezos — 6 operation(s) for protocols.36.6TzKT Governance APIThe Governance API exposes Tezos on-chain governance data including voting periods, proposals, ballots, and...36.6TzKT Protocols APIThe Protocols API returns metadata for each Tezos protocol version including hash, first and last cycle, co...36.6Opentrons Python Protocol APIThe Opentrons Python Protocol API is an open-source Python framework for writing automated biology lab prot...36.3DeBank Protocol APIGet protocol info34.7Apache Thrift Server APIThe Thrift Server API provides server implementations for hosting Thrift services including TSimpleServer (...34.0LiteLLM MCP APIProvides /mcp endpoints for Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, enabling LLMs to interact with extern...34.0Monad Machine Payments ProtocolProtocol specification for programmable machine-to-machine payments on Monad, including account, channel, a...33.9Materials Zone Protocols APIProtocols are used to group parameters in tables.33.1Towns ProtocolTowns Protocol is an open, decentralized messaging protocol built on Base. Builders integrate via first-par...32.8Filecoin Protocol Actor APIBuilt-in actor method interface exposed through Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). Covers Account, Datacap, Mi...31.3Superform Protocol APIThe Protocol API from Superform — 3 operation(s) for protocol.31.1Origin Protocol APIThe protocol API from Origin Protocol — 8 operation(s) for protocol.29.4AMQPAdvanced Message Queuing Protocol. AMQP 1.0 is both an OASIS standard and an International Standard (ISO/IE...28.8MQTTOASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things. Lightweight publish/subscribe transport for r...28.8STOMPSimple (or Streaming) Text Oriented Messaging Protocol. Lightweight, text-based wire protocol for message-o...28.8docomo Mail IMAP InterfaceThe docomo Mail IMAP interface is the one machine-interface specification NTT DOCOMO publishes openly, with...28.4Cucumber MessagesProtocol-buffer / JSON Schema specification of the messages exchanged between Cucumber components (parsers,...28.2Messari Protocols APIThe Protocols API from Messari — 5 operation(s) for protocols.28.1Sommelier Protocol APIProtocol-wide metrics such as total value locked.27.4Eclipse RDF4J Protocol APIProtocol version of the server.26.9MCP SpecificationThe authoritative protocol definition for the Model Context Protocol, maintained at modelcontextprotocol.io...26.7
Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented
Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)Bloomberg's proprietary socket-based API protocol for accessing Bloomberg data, providing a high-performanc...25.5Yarn ProtocolsYarn supports a rich set of dependency protocols beyond `npm:` semver — `git:`, `github:`, `file:`, `link:`...25.1Helium Protobuf DefinitionsCanonical protocol buffer definitions for Helium message formats used across packet routing, oracles, and r...24.1Aave V4 Protocol (Smart Contracts)Next-generation Aave V4 protocol implementation with unified liquidity layer, hub-and-spoke architecture, a...21.8Superpower Action PlansPersonalized diet, lifestyle, and supplement action plans generated from a member's biomarkers and goals. I...21.0APEX — Adaptive Payload EXchangeAPEX is Neros Technologies' open, MIT-licensed plug-and-play protocol for connecting drone platforms (hosts...19.6MQTT Version 3.1.1 ProtocolPrevious OASIS Standard version of MQTT, still widely deployed across IoT brokers, devices, and cloud platf...16.0MQTT Version 5.0 ProtocolOASIS Standard publish/subscribe messaging protocol for IoT and M2M communication. MQTT v5.0 defines the wi...16.0Cap'n Proto RPC ProtocolCap'n Proto's RPC protocol is a capability-based RPC layer that supports promise pipelining, object referen...14.1RTSP ProtocolThe Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a stateful protocol defined in RFC 2326 (1.0) and RFC 7826 (2.0)...13.9IANA Protocol RegistriesThe IANA Protocol Registries publish the authoritative assignments for Internet protocol parameters. Bulk r...12.7
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (42)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Protocol” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Apache Thrift Atomadic Tech Bloomberg Proprietary Technologies Cambio Healthcare Systems Cenevo Cisco Umbrella Cucumber DeBank Delta Lake Dyno Eclipse RDF4J Euler Finance Events Filecoin Fluentd Golioth Helium Network Interhyp Labguru Leia LiteLLM Materials Zone Messari Microsoft Active Directory Model Context Protocol (MCP) Monad NTT Docomo OpenLDAP Opentrons Orca Origin Protocol Pocket Network Postfix Ricoh USA Signal Sommelier Superform Superpower TetraScience Tezos Vaultfire Protocol Yarn

Score breakdown

Frequency
55.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
23.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

RPC 5 co-occurrences Schema 6 co-occurrences Standards 5 co-occurrences TypeScript 5 co-occurrences DeFi 8 co-occurrences Ethereum 6 co-occurrences Blockchain 15 co-occurrences Tokens 7 co-occurrences

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Api tag53
Openapi tag20
Openapi op tag78

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