Currency Conversion API vs Forex Market Data API: Which One You Need
A currency conversion API returns one mid rate per minute. A forex market data API gives tick bid/ask and OHLCV bars. Here is how to pick before you build.
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7 posts on websocket from the SiftingIO market data blog, spanning real-time and historical coverage across stocks, forex, crypto, commodities, and on-chain venues.
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Building Financial AI Agents With Real-Time and Historical Market Data
Why financial AI agents need structured market data APIs instead of web search, and how to wire prices, OHLCV, and fundamentals in as agent tools.
Detecting a stale or manipulated quote with a cross-venue consensus price
How to use a robust cross-venue fair price as a validation layer to flag when one venue is printing a stale, thin, or manipulated quote.
Streaming on-chain DEX swaps over WebSocket without reconnect bugs
Build a resilient WebSocket subscriber for the SiftingIO dex product: chain:PAIR symbols, the auth handshake, last-cached-then-live emits, and a 60s ping.
How to Get the Latest Price and Volume From a DEX Without the On-Chain Math
A DEX has no last-price field. Getting a usable price and volume means pool math, decimals, token ordering, and swap-log parsing behind an RPC node. Here is what that takes and the one-call alternative.
REST vs WebSocket for Real-Time Market Data: When to Use Each
REST or WebSocket for live market data? A plain guide to how each works, when to pull on demand versus stream, why fast polling scales badly, and how to use both together.
Real-time FX and crypto quotes: REST snapshots and WebSocket streams
How to fetch live bid, ask, mid, and last-trade prices for EUR/USD and BTC/USDT through SiftingIO REST snapshots and WebSocket streams.