Currency

Public channel. Connect to: wss://wss.prime.kraken.com/ws/v1

Request for stream of available currencies used within trading. On initial request, a snapshot of all available currencies is provided. All subsequent messages are deltas to the currency snapshot.

Subscribe Schema
Example

{
  "reqid": 3,
  "type": "subscribe",
  "streams": [
    {
      "name": "Currency"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Response Schema
Example

reqid

number

required

A number that relates this response to a request.

type

string

required

The type of message sent.

string

required

An ISO-8601 UTC string of the form 2019-02-13T05:17:32.000000Z.

initial

boolean

If this is initial data for a request, the initial flag will be set.

seqNum

number

required

The sequence number for this response per request.

action

string

“Update” or “Remove” - tells the client if the given entity should be removed or added/updated.

data

array

required

Array of Currency data.

Show properties

Timestamp

number

required

Timestamp of message publication as nanoseconds since the Unix epoch.

UpdateAction

string

required

“Update” or “Remove” where the latter indicates the Currency is no longer available. Possible values: Update, Remove

CurrencyID

number

required

System ID for Currency - for information only.

Symbol

string

required

Symbol for currency.

MinIncrement

string

required

Minimum increment for Currency.

DefaultIncrement

string

required

Default increment used in all Market Data and Orders.

Description

string

required

Description of Currency.

{
  "reqid": 3,
  "type": "Currency",
  "ts": "2021-09-14T22:11:47.512168Z",
  "initial": true,
  "seqNum": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "Timestamp": 1676936489075207000,
      "UpdateAction": "Update",
      "CurrencyID": 2,
      "Symbol": "USD",
      "MinIncrement": "0.01",
      "DefaultIncrement": "0.01",
      "Description": "U.S. Dollar"
    },
    {
      "Timestamp": 1676936515053193000,
      "UpdateAction": "Update",
      "CurrencyID": 17,
      "Symbol": "ETH",
      "MinIncrement": "0.00000001",
      "DefaultIncrement": "0.0001",
      "Description": "Ethereum"
    }
  ]
}

Connection

Subscription Management

Order Management

Market Data

Account

RFQ

Reference Data

Response

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