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Documentation Index

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Coinbase Prime offers robust APIs for institutional trading, custody, and staking. These APIs are purpose-built to support integration of Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS), payments, and trading infrastructure into your applications. Concepts pages provide foundational guidance on core functionality and integration workflows to accelerate your development process.

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Core Concepts

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Account Structure

  • Account Structure - Multi-entity, multi-portfolio organizational structure and API scoping

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Trading

  • Trading Overview - Product pairs, order creation, tracking, fills, and cancellation workflows
  • Order Types - Supported order algorithms and execution strategies
  • Market Data - Methods for order book and candles maintenance
  • Trading Fees - Fee structures, calculation methods, and API response field explanations
  • Trade Financing - Trade financing, buying power
  • FIX - Financial Information eXchange protocol for institutional trading
  • RFQ - For placing and accepting a Request for Quote (RFQ) order type

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Wallets

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Balances

  • Balances - Real-time portfolio and wallet balance monitoring

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Transactions

  • Deposits - Crypto and fiat deposit address generation and tracking
  • Withdrawals - External transaction workflows
  • Transfers - Internal transaction workflows
  • Multinetwork - Multinetwork transaction support

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Staking

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Stablecoins

  • Conversions - Instant 1:1 conversion between USD and USDC/PYUSD
  • USDC Rewards - Accumulation and payout of USDC rewards
  • USDC Settlement - Using USDC as settlement currency on USD order books

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Monitoring & Reporting

  • Activities - Activity tracking for all portfolio operations and approvals