How Do Submarine Swaps Work?
Submarine Swaps is a novel way of bridging the gap between the Lightning Network and onchain Bitcoin blockchain funds. The scenario is as follows: Alice and Bob has a Lightning Network channel. All the money is on Alice’s side, and …
Crypto Exchange API Update: Litecoin Support
We are pleased to announce the addition of Litecoin to the Suredbits Crypto Spot Exchange API and Crypto Futures Exchange API. Litecoin has a $5.6 billion market cap with roughly $2.4 billion 24 hour trading volume. With the addition of Litecoin, our Spot and …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Security Part 1 — Background
This is our fourth post in our Lightning 101 For Exchanges series. We will investigate in detail the security schema of the Lightning Network. This post will be more technical than our previous ones and is intended for software engineers and security …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Regulation Part 2
This is the third post in our Lightning 101 For Exchanges series. In this post we explain why crypto exchanges can feel confident in adopting Lightning for their business operations while complying with regulatory requirements. For purposes of this analysis we will …
Announcement: Crypto Futures API Release
Today we are excited to release our new Crypto Futures API. This new service will enable users to query for Futures contracts data using our standard channels: “Tickers”, “Trades” and “Books”. Our initial release will have Bitmex and Kraken exchanges. We …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Regulation Part 1
This is the second post in our Lightning 101 For Exchanges series. In this post we explain why we believe crypto exchanges can feel secure in adopting Lightning for their business operations. For purposes of this analysis we will be focused only …
API Websocket Playground
Our new websocket playground application is live. The playground will help developers explore, test and familiarize themselves with our API services. All our current datasets – Crypto Exchange, NFL and NBA – are available along with their respective channels. Developers …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Overview
There are approximately 240 cryptocurrency exchanges in the world with some exchanges clearing hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions on a daily basis and others only trading in the thousands of dollars per day. On any given month, some exchanges might …
Crypto Exchange API: Binance Update
We are pleased to announce we have added Binance Order Books to the “Books” channel on our Suredbits Crypto Exchange API. We now offer full support for Binance across all our websocket channels: Tickers, Trades and Order Books. With support for some of the largest …
Lightning 101: Challenges & Limitations
This is the ninth and final installment of our Lightning 101 series. To see previous installments click any of the links below: What is the Lightning Network What is a Lightning Node What is a Lightning Invoice What are Lightning …