Announcement: API Pricing Change
Our mission is to democratize data. We strongly believe data should be more available to more people. And that people should be able to use and only pay for the data they want. As part of that mission, we are …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Managing Fees With Lightning
Last week we discussed how Lightning can help Exchanges create a better user experience by helping to create liquidity (link to post) for custom deposits and withdrawals. In that post, we mentioned the impact of on-chain fees. In this post, …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: User Experience – Liquidity
Crypto exchanges can improve customer experience on their platform’s via Lightning technology by providing greater liquidity while offering enhanced privacy protections. In this post, we will focus on the matter of liquidity; its importance to traders and how both exchanges …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Security Part 3 – Private Key Management
This is the sixth post in our “Lightning 101 for Exchanges” blog series. In this post we explore private key management and some of the considerations and nuances required for security. Lightning For Exchanges Series Overview Regulation Part 1 — Money Transmitter …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Security Part 2 — Backing Up Your Lightning Wallet
This is the fifth post in our “Lightning 101 for Exchanges” blog series. In this blog post we are going to talk about how the various Lightning implementations handle their revoked commitment transactions and the backup features they offer to …
How to: Suredbits API JS client library
In December, Suredbits released the worlds first streaming API for cryptocurrency exchange market data over the Lightning Network. It allows developers and traders to query for realtime market data on both spot and futures based products. This is in addition to …
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 …
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 …