You can get much more details about a smart contract or a token now as we return the following details:
In general: decimals, totalSupply, balance, contractAddress In case the smart contract is for a token: tokenType, tokenName, tokenSymbol
Here you can find more details:
https://docs.cryptoapis.io/rest-apis/blockchain-as-a-service-apis/eth/index#eth-get-contract-details
We support both formats for BCH in most of the endpoints, now we support it in HD wallet as well. When you get HD wallet addresses, you will get all addresses no matter of the format.
People think mistakenly that gas price for normal transactions in ETH is the same for contracts (including transferring tokens), in fact, each contract has its own gas price. That's why we have created a new endpoint for retrieving the gas price per contract (token).
The new endpoint will return: slow, standard, and fast values, all in Gwei.
Here you can find more details: https://docs.cryptoapis.io/rest-apis/blockchain-as-a-service-apis/eth/index#eth-contract-gas-price-endpoint
If you want to get information when a certain event happens on the Blockchain, you need to setup your own node for each blockchain and each network, write your own logic and spend a lot of time and money.
The other option is to use Blockchain Webhooks where you can request a callback notification for certain events, you will get the callback only when this event happens.
Using Webhooks looks much better, faster, and cheaper but the question is how to find the best such service on the market, there are few already but which one is really stable and scalable.
Crypto APIs Webhooks 2.0 is stable and scalable, fast, and you will never miss a notification.
The stress tests we made showed that we can monitor +1B addresses for a single blockchain network without any delay or missing notifications.
Webhooks for Bitcoin as an example: https://docs.cryptoapis.io/rest-apis/blockchain-as-a-service-apis/btc/index#webhook-notifications
As you may know, Crypto APIs has its own faucet when you can get test coins, they are useful to test your implementation on testnet before you switch to mainnet and test with real funds.
In addition to the supported currencies, we have added ERC20 token to be able to test functionalities like transfer tokens and not only.
We have added an address format filter to all xPub endpoints where you can filter by: P2PKH, P2SH,BECH32, ALL
That means you can get P2PKH or P2SH or BECH32 receive or change addresses for one xPub. The same is valid for xPub transactions.
Crypto APIs has refreshed the design of the dashboard, to make navigation more intuitive and pleasing to the eye.
We have now grouped product features to help developers find exactly what they need. You will be able to see our new additions like Faucet or Tokens Forwarding, where a green "new" label indicates, we have added them recently.
Colors of the menu and buttons now match precisely our corporate colors and make the transition from the landing page to the dashboard smoother.
One of the most used features in Crypto APIs is Automatic Payment Forwarding, a feature allowing you to move any incoming funds from your hot wallets/addresses to your cold wallet automatically.
By doing that you don't take care that much about your hot wallets/addresses, you use them mainly to identify who is the sender of the funds, you use Webhook feature for that.
The feature works for moving funds in all supported protocols but you were not able to move tokens like Omni Layer Tether or ERC20 USDT Token until now!
In order to move out the deposited ERC20 tokens from your ETH address, you need to have ETH for gas in this address, which makes moving the funds a challenge.
Crypto APIs now has a new feature called Automatic Tokens Forwarding where our software takes care of absolutely everything and moves your deposited tokens to wherever you want.
BTC - Omni Layer: https://docs.cryptoapis.io/rest-apis/blockchain-as-a-service-apis/btc/index#tokens-forwarding
ETH - ERC20: https://docs.cryptoapis.io/rest-apis/blockchain-as-a-service-apis/eth/index#tokens-forwarding
Developers need free test coins in order to test their code in testnet before switching to mainnet, unfortunately this is a challenge and most of live faucet websites are not that stable.
Our team created a new section in Crypto APIs Dashboard where developers can get a certain amount of test coins to accomplish their tests, we support:
In case you need any test coins, you can get here: https://dashboard.cryptoapis.io/faucet
You can search transactions of any xPub, yPun or zPub now using Block Explorer One! Here you can check this feature for Bitcoin: https://blockexplorer.one/btc/mainnet/xpub
The feature is available for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash and Doge right now.
