Coinbase Prime is a full-service prime brokerage platform for institutional investors, combining secure custody solutions, advanced trading options via our Smart Order Router, and real-time market data to meet the needs of professional traders and financial institutions.

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APIs

The Prime APIs allow for programmatic management of trading, custody, real-time market data, and account management through REST, FIX, and WebSocket APIs.
  • Prime REST API: Place orders, create wallets, initiate transactions, and access historical data.
  • Prime FIX API: Execute high-volume orders. If you are not familiar with FIX, begin with our REST API.
  • Prime WebSocket Feed: Receive real-time updates for market data and trades.

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Audience

  • Institutions with programmatic trading strategies can execute multiple order types and use Coinbase’s smart order routing technology to ensure the best all-in price across connected liquidity venues.
  • Financial technology firms, brokerages, and others looking to build a crypto offering within their products can integrate with the APIs to manage crypto trading on behalf of their customers.
  • Fund administrators and operations teams can automate critical processes such as settlements, rebalancing, and bookkeeping in a transparent manner.

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Key Features

Trading and Order Management - Full market access for programmatic execution and price optimization:
  • Programmatically execute market, limit, TWAP, and VWAP orders
  • List order fills
  • Cancel orders
  • Access WebSocket and FIX market data
Account Management - Automate reconciliation, trade and transaction tracking, and more:
  • View resources across your account hierarchy, at the entity, organization, portfolio, and user levels
  • View transactions and positions by portfolio and wallet
  • Provide read-only access to your third-party partners for further streamlining.
Custody - Store your assets with a highly secure crypto custodian:
  • Retrieve wallets, corresponding transactions, and deposit instructions
  • View balances by type and symbol
Onchain Wallet – Directly manage Prime onchain address groups, wallets, and transactions:
  • Create and retrieve onchain wallets, including onchain-specific attributes
  • Create onchain transactions and retrieve detailed transaction data within your portfolio
  • Organize onchain addresses into groups for streamlined enterprise-level management