Perp Open Interest
by Usenami in Markets & finance
Open interest per venue for one crypto perpetual, with mark_price alongside — positioning and crowding across tracked CEX and DEX perp venues. Raw value: units vary per venue, see units_note in the response.
https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest- Price
- $0.001
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 598 ms
- 725 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
GET https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest
Each call costs $0.001 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
Built from the input schema. Replace the values with your own.
GET https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest?ticker=example&venue=exampleParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
canonical_id | string | No | Disambiguates a ticker that names two unrelated assets; a 409 on the ticker alone names the candidates. The response echoes the resolved `canonical_id`, so you always know which asset you were answered about. |
ticker | string | Yes | Base ticker (e.g. BTC, ETH). Required. |
venue | string | Yes | Venue name (e.g. binance, hyperliquid). Required. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"canonical_id": "btc-crypto",
"mark_price": 76540.45,
"open_interest_raw": 98650.31,
"ticker": "BTC",
"units_note": "open_interest values are raw per venue ...",
"updated_at": "2026-05-26T17:03:12Z",
"venue": "binance"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.001.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest?ticker=example&venue=example'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest?ticker=example&venue=example' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.001 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.001" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.001 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.usenami.io%2Fv1%2Fperp%2Fopen-interest
const res = await pay("https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest?ticker=example&venue=example");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.001 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.001"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.usenami.io/v1/perp/open-interest?ticker=example&venue=example")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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