About BlockTrades Web Site
Providing Safety, Speed, and Convenience
This website enables users to rapidly and safely purchase cryptocurrencies without the hassles typically associated with purchasing through a centralized cryptocurrency exchange. Unlike a traditional exchange, you don't need to maintain a balance on our site. Instead, you simply send in the desired amount of cryptocurrency you wish to spend, and we transfer to your wallet an equivalent amount of the cryptocurrency you are buying. This protects you from possible losses that can occur when you hold your cryptocurrency on a exchange that is vulnerable to attacks by hackers.
Purchases can also be made very rapidly (speed is dependent on the underlying confirmation speeds of the currencies being converted between) and large purchases do not tend to move market prices the way they do when placing an order on a centralized exchange.
How We Price Conversions
Our market engine scans across many market paths over a number of different cryptocurrency exchanges to find the best price for purchasing one cryptocurrency with another one. For example, if you want to purchase BitShares with Litecoin, our system will search across more than one hundred market paths to find the best possible price at the current time and desired quantity.
Please note that our web site quotes a dynamically changing rate for all cryptocurrency conversions, so the more delay between when you get a quote from our site and when you send in your payment, the greater the chance for a variation in the purchase price for your order.
Embedding into Wallets and Web Sites via BlockTrades API
Our conversion services can be directly embedded into 3rd party wallets and web sites via our public REST-based API. Full documentation on our API is available at https://blocktrades.us/api/v2/explorer. For most integrations, only use of the high-level API function "initiate-trade" is necessary.
About BlockTrades Company, Products, and Services
BlockTrades International Ltd. is a registered company in the Cayman Islands.
In addition to acting as a market maker across cryptocurrency market pairs, BlockTrades offers consulting services and OEM software for businesses looking to interact with blockchain-based technologies as well as general purpose software development contractors (C++, SQL, and web-based software development).
Our OEM software provides APIs for communicating with major cryptocurrency exchanges and transaction scanners for detecting transactions on popular cryptocurrency networks such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, BitShares, and many more. This website is built on top of this software.