> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.arcus.xyz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get market overview > Returns a consolidated per-market overview keyed by base asset. Returns a consolidated per-market overview keyed by base asset. Folds the former `/v1/api-meta/icons` and `/v1/api-meta/marketCaps` projections into a single response, with any operator-curated `manual_data.json` fields spread into each entry. Public — no `X-API-Key` and no signature required. The map key is the market base asset (e.g. `ETH` for `ETH-USD`). Each value is an object carrying the available `icon` and `marketCap`; keys are omitted (rather than `null`) when the provider has no value. A base asset only appears when it has at least one of: an icon, a market cap, or a manual data entry. Manual data fields are merged last, so an operator entry can override the provider-derived `icon` / `marketCap`. The response is served from a cached snapshot of the same markets dataset that `GET /v1/api-meta/markets` reads, refreshed on the ingest cadence. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.yml get /v1/api-meta/overview openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Arcus API version: 1.0.0 description: > REST API for the Arcus exchange. Provides endpoints for order management, market data, and account onboarding. ## Coming soon (not implemented yet) The following features are declared in this spec (or implied by it) but are **not yet live** on the gateway or matching engine. Schemas and endpoints may be present so clients can wire against the final shape, but today the gateway returns `501 Not Implemented` or the feature is simply absent. Do not depend on these in production until they are announced as live. - **Modify order** (`POST /modifyOrder`) — reduce-only modifications will preserve queue priority; any change that moves the price level or increases size will be handled as an atomic cancel + replace (queue priority is lost). Currently returns `501 Not Implemented`. - **Batch modify order** (`POST /batchModifyOrders`) — same semantics as `modifyOrder`, applied atomically per item. Currently returns `501 Not Implemented`. - **Next predicted funding rate** — the predicted funding rate for the upcoming interval is not yet exposed on `GET /markets` or the markets WebSocket channel. Only the current realized rate is available today. - **Funding rate calculations** — the authoritative calculation methodology (premium sampling window, interest-rate component, clamping, payment schedule) is still being finalized and is not documented here yet. - **Advanced order types** — trailing stop, stop-limit, OCO, and other conditional / bracket order variants beyond plain `LIMIT` and `MARKET` are not yet supported. ## Authentication Order management and credential-creating endpoints require **three** request headers: - `X-API-Key` — hex-encoded Ed25519 public key (64 chars). The public key *is* the API key. Obtain/register one via `POST /createApiKey`. - `X-Timestamp` — Unix time in **nanoseconds** as a decimal string (e.g. `"1713825891591000000"`). Millisecond or second epochs are rejected with `401 Unauthorized`. Must be within ±30,000 ms (`MaxTimestampDriftMs`, the drift window stays configured in milliseconds) of server wall-clock; otherwise the request is rejected with `401 Unauthorized`. - `X-Signature` — lowercase hex-encoded Ed25519 signature (128 chars). **Single-order endpoints** (`placeOrder`, `cancelOrder`, `modifyOrder`) use the **ordersign typed canonical payload** as the signing message — a compact, key-sorted JSON object with engine-native integer values. The payload is NOT the raw HTTP body; it is built from the parsed request fields: ``` placeOrder: {"ad":"0x…","ai":N,[,"c":"…"],"ct":N,"g":N,"m":N,"op":1,"p":N,"q":N,"r":0|1,"s":N,"t":N,"v":1} cancelOrder: {"ad":"0x…","ai":N,[,"c":"…"],"ct":N,[,"id":"…"],"m":N,"op":2,"v":1} modifyOrder: {"ad":"0x…","ai":N,[,"c":"…"],"ct":N,[,"id":"…"],"m":N,"op":3,"p":N,"q":N,"v":1} ``` `ct` in the payload must equal `X-Timestamp`. Integer values `p`, `q` etc. are engine-native ticks/quantums, not human-readable decimals. Keys in brackets are conditional (omitted when empty). `op` is the operation enum: `1`=place, `2`=cancel, `3`=modify, `4`=placeUntriggered (TPSL). See the `ordersign` package for full field definitions and reference signing code. **Batch endpoints do not use this header** — see below. - **Batch endpoints are signed per order — no `X-Signature`.** `POST /batchPlaceOrders` and `POST /batchCancelOrders` require `X-API-Key` + `X-Timestamp` only; the gateway does **not** verify an envelope `X-Signature` for these routes. Instead, each element of the `orders` / `cancels` array embeds its own `"signature"` field — a 128-hex Ed25519 signature over the **ordersign typed canonical payload** for that operation: - Plain `orders` elements (no `tpsl_type`) use `op=1`. - TPSL / conditional `orders` elements (with `tpsl_type`) use `op=4` (`OpPlaceUntriggered`) — same field set as `op=1` but a different `op` value, preventing replay of a TPSL signature as a plain placeOrder. - `cancels` elements use `op=2`. The `ct` field inside every element's payload must equal the shared `X-Timestamp` header value. The whole batch consumes a single replay slot. Read-only endpoints (`GET /openOrders`, `GET /fills`, etc.) require only `X-API-Key`. In relaxed local development the gateway may run with signatures disabled; the OpenAPI `security` blocks list `signedRequest` (the three-header AND) or `{}` (empty) to reflect that. ## Account-scoped requests Public account info reads such as fills, positions, orders, open orders, and account snapshots require `address` as a **query parameter**. Signed order management requests also require `address`, and it must match the master Ethereum address returned for that API key from `POST /createApiKey`. WebSocket `placeOrder` / `cancel` / `batchPlaceOrders` / `batchCancelOrders` / `modifyOrder` use the same value in the JSON payload field `address`. ## Order execution is asynchronous `POST /placeOrder`, `POST /cancelOrder`, `POST /batchPlaceOrders`, and `POST /batchCancelOrders` are asynchronous. They return either: - **`202 Accepted`** — the common case. The signed request was validated by the gateway and forwarded to the matching engine; the body does **not** carry the order's terminal state. - **`200 OK`** — returned only when the gateway already has definitive state for the request by the time it responds (the body's `status` reflects that state, e.g. `OPEN` / `FILLED` / `CANCELED` / `REJECTED`). Clients should treat this as best-effort enrichment and not rely on it. In both cases the body echoes `orderId` / `clientId` so callers can correlate WebSocket events with the request. To observe the full order lifecycle (`OPEN`, `FILLED`, `CANCELED`, `REJECTED`, fills, rejection reasons, etc.) clients **must** subscribe to the `orders` WebSocket channel (and `userFills` for trade-level events). Treat both the `202` and `200` HTTP bodies as request acknowledgements; all definitive state lives on the WebSocket. `POST /modifyOrder` and `POST /batchModifyOrders` are **not implemented yet** — the schemas are declared so consumers can wire against the final shape, but the gateway returns `501 Not Implemented` today. When live, they will follow the same async contract. ## Order rejection reasons When the matching engine (go-core) rejects an order, the resulting `AccountUpdate` event (delivered over the WebSocket `account` channel with `type: REJECTED`) carries a `rejectionReason` enum. The same value may also appear on HTTP `OrderResponse` / `CancelOrderResponse` bodies that resolved to definitive state before returning (the `200` path described above). The complete set of reasons go-core can emit today is: | Value | Meaning | |------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | `POST_ONLY_WOULD_CROSS` | Post-only order was rejected because it would have crossed the book and taken liquidity. | | `SELF_TRADE` | Order would have matched against another resting order belonging to the same account; self-trade prevention rejected it. | | `UNDERCOLLATERALIZED` | Account has insufficient free collateral / margin to support the order. | | `COULD_NOT_FILL` | Generic "could not fill" outcome. Legacy reason — prefer the IOC/FOK-specific values below for time-in-force-driven cancels. | | `IOC_CANCELED` | An `IMMEDIATE_OR_CANCEL` order produced zero fills against the book and was canceled. | | `FOK_FAILED` | A `FILL_OR_KILL` order could not be filled in full at submission and was canceled in its entirety. | | `REDUCE_ONLY_WOULD_INCREASE` | A `reduceOnly` order was rejected because executing it would have opened or increased the account's position rather than reducing it. | | `TOO_MANY_CLIENT_IDS` | Account already has 10,000 live `clientId`s (the per-account maximum). Cancel an existing order or wait for one to reach a terminal state to free a slot. | | `DUPLICATE_CLIENT_ID` | The `clientId` already maps to a live order on this account. Cancel the prior order (or use atomic modify via `placeAndCancel`) before reusing the same `clientId`. | See the `RejectionReason` schema for the canonical enum. ## Rate limiting Rate-limited endpoints return `429 Too Many Requests` carrying two retry-after signals: - `Retry-After` HTTP header (integer seconds, RFC 7231 compliant). - `retryAfterMs` field in the JSON body — precise milliseconds. The body also carries a typed `reason` indicating which layer rejected (`ip`, `account_empty`, `account_partial`). See `RateLimitedError` for the schema and `TooManyRequests` for the behavioral contract. Partner market-makers may be added to the bypass allowlist via the `RATELIMIT_BYPASS_ADDRESSES` server-side configuration (per environment). Allowlisted addresses skip rate-limit charging entirely and never receive a 429 from this layer. servers: - url: https://api.testnet.arcus.xyz description: Testnet - url: https://api.arcus.xyz description: Mainnet security: [] tags: - name: Onboarding description: Account and API key management. - name: Public description: >- Unauthenticated endpoints — market data, health checks, and account-scoped info reads. - name: Exchange description: > Signed order management endpoints (all are HTTP `POST`). Every request must carry the full header triple `X-API-Key` + `X-Timestamp` + `X-Signature` where `X-Signature` is an Ed25519 signature over the operation-specific signing message: `placeOrder`, `cancelOrder`, and `modifyOrder` sign the ordersign typed canonical payload (the JSON object itself, no prefix), while `cancelAllOrders` and `setLeverage` use the legacy `X-Timestamp + ACTION + canonicalJSON(body)` message (ACTION = the final camelCase path segment; the HTTP method is not signed). `X-Timestamp` is a Unix nanosecond epoch (decimal string) and must be within ±30,000 ms of server wall-clock. See the top-level **Authentication** section for full details. These endpoints also require query parameter `address` matching the key's master Ethereum address. - name: Referral description: > Affiliate / referral program endpoints. Mutating endpoints (`POST`) require the full Ed25519 signature triple and the body `address` must match the API key's master Ethereum address. Read endpoints (`GET`) are public and scoped by `?address=`. - name: Meta description: > Product / UX-level APIs served by the `api-meta` service. These live behind the same host as the rest of the API but are routed (via the ALB path rule on `/v1/api-meta/*`) to a separate deployment with its own ScyllaDB keyspace and its own deployment lifecycle. They share the same `X-API-Key` + Ed25519 signature scheme as Exchange endpoints; the signed `REQUEST_PATH` includes the `/v1/api-meta/...` prefix verbatim. - name: UserPreferences description: > Per-master-wallet preference store (favorited markets, dashboard layouts, theme, language, …). Reads are public and scoped by `?address=`; writes (PATCH / DELETE) require an Ed25519 signature and are bound to the address registered to `X-API-Key`. See `UserPreferenceKey` for the known keys and `UserPreferenceValue` for the type system. - name: MarketMetadata description: > Curated reference data for markets (company profile, branding, headline financials, …) refreshed from the upstream ticker feed. Reads are public; freshness is bounded by the per-row `ingestedAt` returned in the response envelope. - name: Notifications description: > Per-master-wallet inbox of "unseen events" surfaced from the matching engine: terminal resting-order fills (maker side, fully filled), liquidations, and TP/SL triggers. Reads are public and scoped by `?address=`; the `:markSeen` write requires an Ed25519 signature and is bound to the address registered to `X-API-Key`. Notifications expire after 30 days. paths: /v1/api-meta/overview: get: tags: - MarketMetadata summary: Get market overview description: Returns a consolidated per-market overview keyed by base asset. operationId: getMarketOverview responses: '200': description: Map of base asset to overview entry. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/MarketOverviewResponse' '404': description: > The markets metadata feature is not enabled on this deployment, so the route is not mounted. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests' '500': description: Internal error encoding the response. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error' '503': description: Backing store unavailable. Caller should retry with backoff. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/error' x-codeSamples: - lang: Shell label: curl source: | curl https://api.testnet.arcus.xyz/v1/api-meta/overview components: schemas: MarketOverviewResponse: type: object description: > Consolidated overview projection keyed by market base asset (e.g. `ETH` for `ETH-USD`). Folds the former `/icons` and `/marketCaps` endpoints into a single response, with any operator-curated `manual_data.json` fields spread into each entry. A base asset only appears when it has at least one of: an icon, a market cap, or a manual data entry. additionalProperties: $ref: '#/components/schemas/MarketOverviewEntry' example: ETH: icon: https://branding.dydx.exchange/markets/branding/eth.svg marketCap: 456000000000 NVDA: icon: https://branding.dydx.exchange/markets/branding/nvda.png marketCap: 5180000000000 category: EQUITIES properties: {} error: type: object required: - error properties: error: type: string description: Human-readable error message. examples: - Invalid request body code: type: string description: > Machine-readable error code for generic (non-order) rejections. Present on geo-restriction blocks; clients should key product-availability UI off this rather than the human `error` string. | Value | Meaning | |------------------|---------| | `GEO_RESTRICTED` | The action is not available from the caller's country/region for this product (perps and/or spot). Reads remain available; only state-changing actions are blocked. | enum: - GEO_RESTRICTED errorSource: type: string description: > Scopes the failure to a specific operation. Present on structured order errors (place / cancel / modify flows); absent on generic HTTP errors. enum: - Order - Cancel errorType: type: string description: > Machine-readable reason for the API-layer rejection. Present alongside `errorSource` on structured order errors; absent on generic HTTP errors. | Value | Meaning | |-------------------|---------| | `Tick` | Price or size does not align to the market's tick size / step size. | | `InvalidRequest` | A request field failed validation (bad address, unknown market, invalid enum, etc.). TPSL-specific causes: `stopPrice` required when `tpslType` is set; `tpslType` must be `STOP_LOSS` or `TAKE_PROFIT`; `reduceOnly` must be `true` for TPSL orders; trigger price must not sit on the wrong side of the current oracle (would fire immediately); batch grouping/shape constraints violated (wrong order count, missing or duplicate `tpslType` legs). | | `OracleDeviation` | The order's price deviates from the current oracle price by more than the allowed threshold. Adjust the price closer to the oracle and resubmit. | | `ReduceOnly` | A reduce-only order was rejected because filling it would open or increase the account's position rather than reduce it. | | `Unavailable` | The requested operation (place / cancel) is temporarily disabled. | | `Unauthorized` | API key or trading-identity check failed. | | `Forbidden` | The authenticated key is not permitted to perform the requested operation. | | `NotImplemented` | The requested capability is not yet available on this path (e.g. TPSL over WebSocket). | | `Transmission` | The gateway accepted and validated the request but could not deliver it to the matching engine. Retry. | | `Internal` | Unexpected gateway-side failure unrelated to transmission. | enum: - Tick - InvalidRequest - OracleDeviation - ReduceOnly - Unavailable - Unauthorized - Forbidden - NotImplemented - Transmission - Internal rejectionReason: type: string description: > Machine-readable engine-level rejection code. Present on `OrderResponse` / `BatchOrderItemResponse` when `status` is `REJECTED` on the synchronous `200` path (i.e. the gateway already had a definitive engine reject before responding). Absent on `202` responses and on HTTP error bodies — in those cases rejection reasons are delivered asynchronously via the `orders` WebSocket channel. Mirror of the canonical `RejectionReason` schema in `openapi.yaml` — keep the two in lockstep (and the hardcoded list in `sdks/python/scripts/post_process_models.py`). | Value | Meaning | |------------------------------------|---------| | `POST_ONLY_WOULD_CROSS` | Post-only order would have crossed the book and taken liquidity. | | `SELF_TRADE` | Order would match against the account's own resting order; blocked by self-trade prevention. | | `UNDERCOLLATERALIZED` | Account has insufficient free collateral / margin to support the order. | | `COULD_NOT_FILL` | Generic "could not fill" (legacy; prefer `IOC_CANCELED` / `FOK_FAILED`). | | `IOC_CANCELED` | IOC order produced zero fills and was canceled. | | `FOK_FAILED` | FOK order could not be fully filled at submission. | | `REDUCE_ONLY_WOULD_INCREASE` | reduce-only order would have opened or increased the position. | | `TOO_MANY_CLIENT_IDS` | Account already has 10,000 live `clientId`s (the per-account maximum). Cancel or let existing orders reach a terminal state to free slots before placing new ones with distinct `clientId`s. | | `DUPLICATE_CLIENT_ID` | Account already has an open order with the same `clientId`. | | `POSITION_TPSL_ALREADY_EXISTS` | A position-level TPSL of the same trigger class (TP or SL) already exists for this account+market. At most one TP and one SL per market. | | `ENTRY_TPSL_CANNOT_BE_POSITION_TPSL` | A TPSL bound to an entry order (`parentOrderId` set) cannot also be a position-level TPSL; entry-linked TPSLs are sized partial legs. | | `OPEN_ORDER_CAP_EXCEEDED` | Account has reached its per-account open-order cap; cancel a resting order or let one reach a terminal state before placing another. | | `ORDER_WILL_TAKE_LIQUIDITY_DURING_MARKET_HALT` | Outside regular trading hours, a crossing order would have taken liquidity past the off-hours trading bound while the market is halted at that band. | | `ORDER_NOT_FOUND` | `cancelOrder` referenced an order not on the orderbook (already filled, canceled, never placed, or owned by another account). | | `ORDER_NOT_FOUND_FOR_MODIFY` | `modifyOrder` referenced an order not on the regular orderbook; TPSL and untriggered orders cannot be modified. | | `MODIFY_CHANGED_IMMUTABLE_FIELD` | `modifyOrder` attempted to change an immutable field (`side`, `timeInForce`, `reduceOnly`, or `orderType`). | | `MODIFY_ZERO_SIZE` | `modifyOrder` specified a new size of zero or less. | enum: - POST_ONLY_WOULD_CROSS - SELF_TRADE - UNDERCOLLATERALIZED - COULD_NOT_FILL - IOC_CANCELED - FOK_FAILED - REDUCE_ONLY_WOULD_INCREASE - TOO_MANY_CLIENT_IDS - DUPLICATE_CLIENT_ID - POSITION_TPSL_ALREADY_EXISTS - ENTRY_TPSL_CANNOT_BE_POSITION_TPSL - OPEN_ORDER_CAP_EXCEEDED - ORDER_WILL_TAKE_LIQUIDITY_DURING_MARKET_HALT - ORDER_NOT_FOUND - ORDER_NOT_FOUND_FOR_MODIFY - MODIFY_CHANGED_IMMUTABLE_FIELD - MODIFY_ZERO_SIZE MarketOverviewEntry: type: object description: > Per-market overview projection: the active provider's branding icon and market capitalization, with any operator-curated manual data fields (from `manual_data.json`) merged in. `icon` and `marketCap` are omitted (rather than `null`) when the provider has no value, so the keys present on an entry reflect what is actually available. Manual data is merged last, so an operator entry can override the provider-derived `icon` / `marketCap`. additionalProperties: true properties: icon: type: string format: uri description: Branding icon URL for the market, when available. example: https://branding.dydx.exchange/markets/branding/abc123.svg marketCap: type: number format: double description: > Market capitalization in the currency reported by the corresponding entry under `GET /v1/api-meta/markets`. example: 5180000000000 category: type: string enum: - EQUITIES - COMMODITIES - INDICES - CRYPTO description: > Category of the underlying. Omitted for any underlying outside the classified universe. example: EQUITIES RateLimitedError: description: > 429 response body shape. Extends the generic `Error` with two rate-limit-specific fields: - `reason` — which limiter rejected the request. Stable string enum; new values may be added in future versions, so clients should treat unknown values as opaque. - `retryAfterMs` — precise milliseconds the client should wait before retrying. The HTTP `Retry-After` header carries the same information rounded up to whole seconds (RFC 7231); prefer this field when sub-second precision matters. type: object required: - error properties: error: type: string example: rate limited reason: type: string enum: - ip - account_empty - account_partial - unknown description: | Layer that rejected the request: * `ip` — per-IP weight bucket exhausted. * `account_empty` — per-subaccount pool fully exhausted; the drip-throttle has no token available either. * `account_partial` — pool has some credit but not enough for this batch. Split the request into smaller chunks to drain the remaining headroom. * `unknown` — defensive fallback; clients should retry per `retryAfterMs` and report the occurrence. retryAfterMs: type: integer format: int64 minimum: 0 description: >- Milliseconds to wait before retrying. Matches the precise wait the rate limiter computed (the `Retry-After` header rounds up to the next whole second). clientId: type: string description: > Echo of the request's client-supplied `clientId`, so the client can correlate the rejection to a specific order request. Present only on single-order endpoints (placeOrder, modifyOrder, cancelOrder) when the request carried a `clientId`. Omitted on batch endpoints (see `clientIds`) and when the request had none. clientIds: type: array items: type: string description: > Echo of every client-supplied `clientId` in a batch request (batchPlaceOrders, batchCancelOrders), positionally aligned with the submitted `orders` / `cancels` array. A batch is rejected all-or-nothing, so every listed order was rejected; the echo lets a client submitting multiple batches concurrently correlate the 429 to a specific batch. An entry is empty when that element carried no `clientId` (e.g. a cancel-by-orderId). Omitted on single-order endpoints (see `clientId`). responses: TooManyRequests: description: > Rate limit exceeded. Two signals are returned, designed to coexist with both naive HTTP clients and rate-limit-aware SDK clients: - `Retry-After` header (integer seconds, RFC 7231 compliant). Rounds up — clients that obey this header sleep at least as long as required. Safe for generic HTTP libraries to read. - JSON body `retryAfterMs` (precise milliseconds, matches the server's internal computation). Sophisticated clients should prefer this over the header to avoid the round-up overshoot. - JSON body `reason` indicates which rate-limit layer rejected: `ip` (per-IP weight bucket), `account_empty` (per-subaccount pool fully exhausted, in drip throttle), `account_partial` (pool has some credit but not enough for this batch — split the request smaller to drain), or `unknown` (defensive fallback). - JSON body `clientId` (single-order endpoints) or `clientIds` (batch endpoints) echoes the request's client-supplied order identifier(s) so the client can correlate the rejection to a specific order request. Allowlisted addresses bypass the rate-limit middleware entirely (see `RATELIMIT_BYPASS_ADDRESSES`); they never receive a 429 from this layer. headers: Retry-After: $ref: '#/components/headers/RetryAfter' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitedError' example: error: rate limited reason: account_empty retryAfterMs: 850 clientId: my-order-42 headers: RetryAfter: description: Seconds the client should wait before retrying the request. schema: type: integer minimum: 1 example: 1 ````