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How to integrate tokenized asset market data into your product page?

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When the issuer creates product pages (official asset pages, App market sections, documentation sites), market data is a continuous engineering investment: collecting data from multiple exchanges, cleaning and aligning it, and maintaining it over the long term can be costly for small teams. APIs are one of the common solutions—integrating the capabilities of professional data platforms into the product, allowing the team to focus on the product itself. This article outlines the questions that need to be addressed when integrating from the issuer's product scenario. (Specific interfaces, fields, and quotas are subject to the API documentation on the day of release.)

Who is this article suitable for?

  • Technical leaders of teams responsible for product page/market area development;
  • Product managers evaluating data procurement;
  • BDs who need to provide data access solutions for partners.

First, clarify: what types of data does your product page need?

Breaking it down by product scenario, the data needs of issuers usually fall into three categories:

Display type: price, 24H change, trading volume—basic fields for the asset page, with moderate real-time requirements, generally accepting minute-level delays.

Decision support type: price differences across venues, depth, fees—helping users understand the cost and liquidity differences across different venues, also the incremental information that distinguishes the product page from ordinary market pages.

Endorsement type: issuer information, multi-version comparisons, data source annotations—structured, traceable data presentation methods, which also reflect the quality of information. You can refer to the QQQ detail page for its information architecture as a reference for product page design.

The API fields and update frequency requirements corresponding to these three types of needs are different, so check against this list before integration and choose as needed.

Three steps for integration

  1. Verification phase: apply for a free basic version, using the actual product page's required fields for mapping tests—focus on verifying whether the entity associations of multi-version targets meet your display logic;
  2. Joint debugging phase: compare dual sources for a week, confirm that the API returns are consistent with the page display before officially going live;
  3. Operational phase: downgrade plan for data anomalies (cache fallback + prompts), and evaluation process for new fields added with product iterations.

Usage restrictions

  • The number of API interfaces, quotas, and pricing are subject to the current display on the official website;
  • Data accessed for product display must comply with the requirements for display scenarios and data annotations in the licensing terms; for field caliber issues see Tokenized Asset FAQ .

Use the free quota to verify your field requirements

Go to the RootData API documentation to apply for a basic version key, and call each of the three types of fields needed for the product page once—after field matching, evaluate whether to upgrade the subscription. Once the product is fully included and data maintained, integrating market data is the final step for users to see the product directly. Introduction to the tokenized asset section can serve as a reference for the data source description in the product documentation.

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