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Orca API: 14 keyless endpoints, no candles, no trade feed
Orca (ORCA) runs a keyless REST API covering Solana Whirlpools. It offers 14 endpoints for pools, tokens, and protocol stats, but provides no swap history and no trade feed.
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What happened
Orca (ORCA) runs a keyless REST API covering Solana Whirlpools. It offers 14 endpoints for pools, tokens, and protocol stats, but provides no swap history and no trade feed.
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Global impact / market context
Free keyless access to pool and token data lowers the cost for developers building dashboards, bots, and research tools on Solana. Without swap history, those tools cannot reconstruct past trades from this API alone.
Analyst inference
Solana projects often charge for or restrict data access, which means developers face hurdles. Orca's open, keyless endpoint set offers easier data access, potentially boosting tooling around ORCA and Solana pools.
Analyst inference
What to watch
- The API has 14 endpoints covering pools, tokens, and protocol stats, but no swap history. Watch whether endpoint coverage expands to fill that data gap. Confirmed
- Developers could combine Orca's pool and token data with separate trade feeds to build complete analytics, which means filling the missing swap history from another source. Proposed
- If free keyless access draws more builders, demand for ORCA and Solana pool tooling may rise. Watch developer activity and third-party integrations as signals. Analyst inference
Affected assets
- SOL — Solana
- ORCA — Orca