Introduction - Anchorage Digital

The Anchorage Digital API is a REST API that consists of 100+ operations across custody, wallets, transfers, trading, Atlas settlement, onboarding, tax, subaccounts, webhook notifications, and more.

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Base URLs

Environment	Base URL
Sandbox	`https://api.anchorage-staging.com`
Production	`https://api.anchorage.com`

Send your first API call

Set a permission group

Define which vaults and operations the API key can access. See Permission groups.

Create an API key

Generate a key assigned to the permission group. See API keys.

Sign your requests

Sensitive endpoints require an Ed25519 signature in addition to the API key. See Request signing.

Send the request

Include your API key in the Api-Access-Key header on every request. Add Api-Signature and Api-Timestamp on sensitive endpoints.

curl -X GET \
  'https://api.anchorage-staging.com/v2/apikey' \
  -H 'Api-Access-Key: <YOUR_API_KEY>' \
  -H 'Api-Signature: <YOUR_API_SIGNATURE>' \
  -H 'Api-Timestamp: <SOME_TIMESTAMP>'

Next steps

Authentication

Learn how requests are signed and attached to headers.

Request signing

Learn how requests are signed and attached to headers.

Errors and pagination

Handle response codes, rate limits, and cursor pagination.

Authentication

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​Base URLs

​Send your first API call

​Next steps

Authentication

Request signing

Errors and pagination

Base URLs

Send your first API call

Next steps