Buy/Sell Crypto

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Fortress's APIs allow end users to buy and sell crypto for fiat directly within their custodial accounts. The trading pairs currently supported are:

  • USD <-> BTC
  • USD <-> ETH
  • USD <-> USDC on Polygon and Ethereum Blockchains
  • USD <-> MATIC
  • USD <-> SOL
  • USD <-> ADA
  • USD <-> XLM
  • USD <-> DOT
  • USD <-> LINK
  • USD <-> ALGO
  • USD <-> AVAX
  • USD <-> LTC
  • USD <-> UNI
  • USD <-> BUSD
  • USD <-> BNB
  • More trading pairs coming soon

Overview

The general workflow for crypto trades will look like the following:

  1. Pull the market price for the crypto your end user is looking to buy/sell from our API.
  2. Give the end user the ability to confirm a trade after looking at the market price.
  3. Call the Fortress API to initiate a trade
  4. Monitor the webhooks sent for a change in the status of a trade.
  5. Once completed, update your front end with the new balance for the end user.

Lets review each step a bit more.

1. Pull the market price

GET /api/trust/v1/crypto-currency/crypto-currency-price/{network}/{currency}

//Sample Response

{ 
"price": {
  "buy": 21489.79,
  "sell": 21457.19
  }
}

Note: Currently it will be an API call to pull the market price at that time. Eventually we will implement a websocket that will stream prices to you.

2. Allow the end user to confirm that they want the trade after presenting them the market price.

3. Initiate a trade using the API

POST /api/trust/v1/trades

//Sample Request

{
     "accountId": "A3CA08AB-3058-4C3C-81E7-51DA24B171FF", 
     "type": "market", //only "market" is available at this time
     "from": {
          "asset": "usd",
          "amount": 100 
      },
     "to": {
          "asset": "eth" 
      },
     "comment": "Any Comment Here" 
}

OR 

POST /api/trust/v1/trades

// Sample Request

{
     "accountId": "A3CA08AB-3058-4C3C-81E7-51DA24B171FF", 
     "type": "market", //only "market" is availbable at this time
     "from": {
          "asset": "eth", 
          "amount": 100 
      },
     "to": {
          "asset": "usd" 
      },
     "comment": "Any Comment Here" 
}

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All in one

The trades endpoint facilitates both buys and sells by designating the from and to fields.

4. Monitor webhooks

An integrator will receive one webhook when the buy/sell crypto transaction is moved to the Processing status and another webhook when the settlement process is completed. Here are a list of the status's available for the trades endpoint:

  • Pending (the buy/sell crypto request is created)

  • Processing (the buy/sell crypto request is in progress, pending incoming crypto/fiat is displayed in an account
    balance)

  • Completed (settlement process is completed)

  • Aborted (processing of the buy/sell crypto request is failed)

5. Once a trade is completed, update your front end with the new balance

GET /custodial-accounts/{custodialAccountId}/balances

//Sample Response

{ 
"data": [ 
   {
   "assetType": "cryptoCurrency",
   "assetFiatType": "eth",
   "network": "mainnet",
   "disbursable": .001,
   "locked": 0,
   "pending": 0,
   "total": .001 
   } 
 ]
}

Updated 9 days ago