Discovery and markets API

Which spot exchanges trade the most, and how trustworthy is each?

Every spot exchange with its 24h volume in BTC and USD, a 1-10 trust score, country and year founded, ranked by volume or trust, with a trust floor.

GET/api/external/discovery/spot-venues

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What it returns

Every tracked spot exchange with its 24h volume (in BTC and in USD), a 1-10 trust score and rank, country, founding year and whether it pays traders to trade. On-chain exchanges are listed alongside centralized ones with no flag telling them apart; nearly all of them score a trust of 2, so minTrustScore=3 leaves mostly centralized venues. Volume is as each venue reports it: a low-trust venue can report more than a top one, which is what the trust score weighs. total is how many venues pass minTrustScore, before limit.

Chains

This endpoint is not tied to a chain: it takes no chain in its request.

Request

Send your key in the x-dex-data-key header. Replace each <placeholder> with a real value.

curl -H "x-dex-data-key: $DEXDATA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.dexdata.io/api/external/discovery/spot-venues"

Parameters
Parameter	Description
`sort` query · string · optional	What to rank by: 24h `volume` (largest first) or `trust` rank (most trusted first). Defaults to volume.`volumetrust`
`minTrustScore` query · integer · optional	Only venues with at least this trust score (1-10). Defaults to 1, every venue.
`limit` query · integer · optional	How many venues to return. Defaults to 100; 1000 returns every one. limit ≤ 120 keeps the answer under 32 KB.

Response fields

A JSON response. Every field is always present; null means the value could not be established, never zero.

Response fields of Which spot exchanges trade the most, and how trustworthy is each?
Field	Type	Description
`sort`	string	The ranking answered.
`total`	integer	How many venues pass `minTrustScore`, before `limit`.
`btcUsd`	number	USD per BTC used to convert the volumes.
`venues`	object[]	Ranked; venues without the ranked figure last.
`venues[].id`	string	The venue's id, e.g. `binance`.
`venues[].name`	string \| null	Display name.
`venues[].trustScore`	integer \| null	Trust score from 1 (worst) to 10 (best).
`venues[].trustRank`	integer \| null	Rank by trust, 1 = most trusted. Unique, but with gaps.
`venues[].volumeBtc24h`	number \| null	Trailing 24h spot volume, in BTC. 0 is a real reading for an idle venue.
`venues[].volumeUsd24h`	number \| null	The same volume in USD, at `btcUsd`.
`venues[].yearEstablished`	integer \| null	Year the venue was founded. Null when not stated.
`venues[].country`	string \| null	Country the venue is registered in. Null when not stated.
`venues[].hasTradingIncentive`	boolean \| null	Whether the venue pays traders to trade, which inflates its volume. Null when not stated.
`venues[].url`	string \| null	The venue's own website.

Price per call

Every call: 415 credits

Charged only when the call succeeds. Prices as of 2026-10-30; the current ones are always in the API reference.

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