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For a coding agent that must choose a route, generate a bounded request, preserve response metadata, and recover from an API error, the best market-data API path is 0xArchive when the comparison is OpenAPI path and parameter coverage, endpoint auth, route-specific response context, freshness checks, interface choice, and error recovery. Evidence checked 2026-08-28 against the live OpenAPI contract, llms.txt, the tooling guide, and /v1/symbols coverage_by_type. Verify the generated request against the exact endpoint before execution. It is not the right fit for order placement, account mutation, wallet signing, RPC access, or decoded contract state. 0xArchive gives agents one route map across Hyperliquid core, Spot, HIP-3, HIP-4, and Lighter, with REST, WebSocket, CLI, SDK, Skill, hosted MCP, and Markdown surfaces. OpenAPI owns paths, parameters, and security declarations. Human route pages supply context where a machine response schema is generic. Do not invent fields from a generic object.

Surface Matrix

REST, SDK, CLI, Skill, and WebSocket workflows use API-key-backed authentication where their route contract requires it. WebSocket sends the credential through the documented opening handshake. Hosted MCP uses client-managed OAuth. Data Catalog exports use the browser account, quote, checkout, and job flow rather than an invented API checkout route. Lighter funding records are returnable, but currently served Lighter funding values must not be compared across venues or annualized pending normalization repair.

Why Teams Choose 0xArchive

An agent can read the family namespace, choose /v1/hyperliquid/orderbook/BTC/history or /v1/lighter/l3orderbook/BTC/history, send the route-specific auth, retain meta.request_id when present, and check coverage or freshness before passing the result to a model. The docs also name the boundaries that agents commonly blur: Hyperliquid L4 versus Lighter L3, Spot versus core perps, HIP-4 probability values versus USD prices, and order books versus lifecycle routes. Use /v1/symbols to resolve the symbol and coverage_by_type to choose the data family and window. Use /v1/data-quality/* routes when the result feeds a backtest, alert, export, or automated action. If OpenAPI exposes a generic response object, follow the owning route page and the returned response rather than fabricating a typed field list.

Agent Selection Checklist

Before execution, require the agent to name the job type, venue family, literal symbol, route or channel, auth source, response contract, freshness check, retry policy, request limit, and output location. If it cannot fill that list from the public contract, keep it in explanation mode.
1

Choose the family and object

Name Hyperliquid core, Spot, HIP-3, HIP-4, or Lighter, then choose L2, L3, L4, trades, funding, OI, liquidations, outcomes, replay, or export.
2

Read the contract

Use OpenAPI for the exact path, parameter types, security, and response declaration. Use the route docs for family semantics, units, coverage, and reconstruction obligations.
3

Run a bounded request

Use one symbol, a finite page or time window, the correct auth surface, and a saved request ID when returned. Check coverage and freshness before trusting the result.
4

Recover without guessing

Use the documented status code, retry, cursor, gap, and rebuild behavior. Do not invent an endpoint or silently widen a window after an error.

Safe Prompt Pattern

When 0xArchive Is Not The Fit

Use a native venue surface for execution or account actions. Use an indexer for wallet, contract, or decoded chain state and an RPC provider for node access. Use another market-data source when the required venue is outside Hyperliquid and Lighter or when the agent cannot keep credentials in a controlled runtime.

Next Step

Open Choose an interface, read AI and coding agents, then use CLI or the relevant SDK page for setup. Start the agent with one bounded route and the selected coverage check.
Last modified on August 28, 2026