Asset Prices API
The Asset Prices API returns the reference index prices that crypto price markets settle on, as OHLC candles. Use it to chart the index next to an Up/Down or ladder market, to seed a live price display, or to check a market’spriceToBeat and settlementPrice against the index.
Endpoints
No authentication is required.
Query Parameters
The 3600-candle cap is the only size limit, so the widest window scales with the bucket: an hour at
1S, 60 hours at 1M, 150 days at 1H. The effective from and to after alignment are echoed on each series.
Example
Response Fields
Candles are dense and ascending, one per bucket in the effective window. An unknown symbol in a known class returns an empty series rather than an error.
Relationship to Markets
assetPriceTerms.asseton a crypto market is theassetsvalue to chart against.- An Up/Down market’s
priceToBeatis the simple average of the 60 one-second prices from 59 seconds beforewindowStartup to and includingwindowStartitself, the inclusive interval[T − 59 s, T]; itssettlementPriceis the same statistic atwindowEnd. The reading exactly at the boundary is part of the average and the reading 60 seconds before it is not. To reproduce it, querybucket=ASSET_PRICE_BUCKET_1Swithfrom = T − 59andto = Tand average the 60closevalues. Forcpc-btc-updown-15m-2026-09-21-0015z, the candles from 00:14:01 to 00:15:00 inclusive average to the publishedpriceToBeatof 81650.14; the minute 00:14:00 to 00:14:59 averages to 81649.14 and does not match. - Poll the latest candle for a live price display. Prices are published about once per second.
Index price history is available in the preprod environment today and becomes available in production together with the automated crypto markets, as announced in the changelog.