Overview

This section covers interacting with the Bancor Network through the REST APIs.

The Bancor Network REST APIs allow simple access to network information as well as generating transactions on the network.

Note that v2 of the APIs is relatively new and is still in its experimental phase.

The Bancor Network APIs all return a JSON document as a response.

The APIs are designed to be blockchain agnostic and as such, all ids are defined using the generic DLT terminology and amounts are normalized to floating point numbers.

DLT Identifier

Many API endpoints support DLT identifiers. These define the target blockchain and the target entity (account, wallet etc.) on the specific blockchain:

Name	Type	Description	Example
dlt_type	String	blockchain type	"ethereum"
dlt_id	String	entity id (wallet address, tx hash)	0x52Ae12ABe5D8BD778BD5397F99cA900624CfADD4

Response Format

{
    data // Object/Array, optional - when no error occurred, actual content
    error: { // Object, optional - when there’s an error
        status // integer, HTTP status code
        messages: [ // Array (String), list of human readable error messages
        ]
    }
}

For all available endpoints and responses, see the API Reference.