DropsTab API – Crypto Market Data for Web3 Developers

What is the DropsTab API?

DropsTab API is a crypto market data API aimed at Web3 developers, analysts, and founders. It provides on-chain and off-chain data – including live prices, historical charts, and advanced tokenomics information – via easy REST endpoints.

The API is designed for integrating into applications, dashboards, trading bots, and research tools. It targets use cases like real-time price feeds, portfolio analytics, crypto research, and token project analysis.

DropsTab API delivers real-time, in-depth insights to power your business, suitable for startups, enterprises, and high-frequency traders. Unlike generic crypto APIs, DropsTab includes unique metrics such as token unlock schedules, fundraising rounds, and investor/VC analytics.

For example, the /tokenUnlocks endpoint returns aggregate data on both upcoming and past unlock events, including how many tokens are locked vs unlocked.

Similarly, /fundingRounds and /investors list detailed information about project financings and top venture capital activity.

These tokenomics-focused endpoints differentiate DropsTab from price-only APIs.

Key Endpoints and Data Categories

DropsTab’s API is organized around several data domains. Below are the main endpoints and what they return:

Market Data (Coins & Charts)

• GET /api/v1/coins – Lists supported coins/tokens with the latest market data. You can filter or sort by fields like PRICE_CHANGE_24H, rank, volume, and trading status (e.g. CURRENTLY_TRADING, NOT_YET_TRADING).
• GET /api/v1/coins/supported – Returns basic info (slugs, symbols, names) for all coins supported by the API.

• GET /api/v1/coins/detailed/{slug} – Fetches detailed data for a given coin (by slug), including price, market cap, supply, and optionally converted into a specified currency.
• GET /api/v1/coins/history/price/{slug} – Gets the coin’s historical price on a specific date in the past.
• GET /api/v1/coins/history/chart-by-timeframe/{slug} and /chart-by-interval/{slug} – Retrieve historical OHLCV (open-high-low-close-volume) chart data for the coin. These endpoints allow fetching price and volume time series by daily/hourly/interval ranges, suitable for plotting charts.

Use Case

A developer can call /coins/history/chart-by-interval/bitcoin?interval=hour&from=2025-06-01T00:00:00&to=2025-06-20T00:00:00 to build a price chart of Bitcoin for June 2025.

Similarly, filtering /coins by sortingField=PRICE_CHANGE_24H and sortOrder=DESC returns today’s top gainers, useful for watchlists or alerts.

Comparison: CoinGecko’s API similarly offers price and market data (e.g. /simple/price) with dozens of endpoints. DropsTab’s coin endpoints cover the same use case for real-time/historical pricing. However, DropsTab complements this with tokenomics and project data, which go beyond CoinGecko’s scope.

Token Unlocks and Vesting

• GET /api/v1/tokenUnlocks – Returns an overview of all tokens with unlock data. The response includes aggregate info on upcoming and past unlock events, a summary of each token’s unlock schedule, and metrics on unlocked vs locked tokens. For example, it might show that 60% of a token’s supply is currently locked under vesting.
• GET /api/v1/tokenUnlocks/{coinSlug} – Provides detailed unlock schedule for a specific token (by slug), listing each vesting event (date, amount, recipients) and progress through the unlock timeline.
• GET /api/v1/tokenUnlocks/supportedCoins – Lists which tokens have unlock data available.
• GET /api/v1/tokenUnlocks/chart/{coinSlug} – Generates time-series data for a token’s unlock schedule, e.g. cumulative unlocked supply over time (useful for charting vesting curves).

Why it matters

Token unlock events (vesting cliff releases) can heavily influence a token’s circulating supply and price. By exposing unlock schedules via API, DropsTab lets developers visualize or alert on these fundamental tokenomics events.

For instance, a portfolio tracker can show a future unlock date and percentage to warn investors of potential sell pressure.

Example: A chart could show the “Unwrapvestable supply of TokenX over time,” calling /tokenUnlocks/chart/tokenx and plotting the data points. Unlike most market APIs, DropsTab explicitly supports such tokenomics queries, addressing a known pain point for analysts tracking supply inflation.

Funding Rounds and Investors

• GET /api/v1/fundingRounds – Retrieves a paginated list of all recorded funding rounds (seed, Series A, etc.) for crypto projects. Each entry includes date, amount raised, round type, and participating investors.
• GET /api/v1/fundingRounds/{id} – Detailed info on one funding round by its ID.
• GET /api/v1/fundingRounds/coin/{coinSlug} – All funding rounds associated with a particular project.

What it includes

Data is compiled from public announcements. You can, for example, list all funding events where Uniswap was involved, or find the latest rounds (date and amount) for Chainlink. This enables building dashboards of investor activity or highlighting recently funded projects.

• GET /api/v1/investors – Returns profiles of top crypto investors and VCs. Each investor entry includes summary statistics and metrics such as total investments, deals per year, portfolio size, ROI (retail vs private), number of public token sales, and how many of their portfolio tokens are listed on exchanges like Binance.

• GET /api/v1/investors/{investorSlug} – Detailed info for one investor (by slug).

Use case: Analysts can fetch, say, /investors and get a ranked list of funds (like a de-centric “smart money leaderboard”) to see who’s leading in deal count or realized ROI. This is akin to specialized “smart money” analytics: Nansen’s “Smart Money” API also tracks whale wallets, but DropsTab focuses on venture entities and their overall impact, bridging on-chain and off-chain signals in one place.

Crypto Activities and Exchanges

• GET /api/v1/cryptoActivities – A feed of crypto-related events or “activities”. The endpoint supports filtering by status and sorting. For example, it might list “TokenX listed on ExchangeY” or “ProjectZ entered Phase 2”. (Use /cryptoActivities by coin slug to filter for one project).
• GET /api/v1/exchanges – Lists crypto exchanges (names, countries, launch dates, etc.), with pagination and filtering.
• GET /api/v1/exchanges/{exchangeSlug} – Details about a specific exchange; you can optionally include its trading pairs.
• GET /api/v1/exchanges/{exchangeSlug}/pairs – All trading pairs available on that exchange.

These endpoints let a developer incorporate exchange metadata (e.g. building a ranking of exchanges by volume) or monitor ecosystem events.

For instance, /cryptoActivities might power a “recent news” sidebar, while /exchanges feeds an analytics widget on market share.

Working with the DropsTab API (Example)

Integration is straightforward. All endpoints are RESTful GET requests (no cost per call beyond plan limits). You include your API key in the header, e.g.:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
"https://public-api.dropstab.com/api/v1/coins/history/chart-by-timeframe/ethereum?timeframe=1d&from=1654041600"

This returns JSON with Ethereum’s daily historical prices. In Python, using requests:

import requests
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"}
params = {"timeframe": "1d", "from": 1654041600}
res = requests.get(
    "https://public-api.dropstab.com/api/v1/coins/history/chart-by-timeframe/ethereum",
    headers=headers, params=params
)
data = res.json()
# data now holds Ethereum's daily OHLCV time series

Similarly, to fetch upcoming unlocks:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
"https://public-api.dropstab.com/api/v1/tokenUnlocks/BLOCK"

This might return:

{
  "token": "BLOCK",
  "unlockSchedule": [
    {"date": "2025-07-01", "amount": 5000000},
    {"date": "2025-08-01", "amount": 5000000},
    ...
  ],
  "metrics": {"totalLocked": 10000000, "totalUnlocked": 15000000}
}

You can then chart the unlockSchedule or calculate percentage unlocked.

Every endpoint supports pagination and filtering. For example, /coins allows sorting fields and range filters on rank. The JSON schema is documented for each endpoint in the [API docs][2] (see “Response” sections).

For students, hackathon participants, or indie builders who want to test this API without worrying about budget limits, there’s also the DropsTab Builders Program. It offers free access to token unlocks, VC funding data, and market metrics — ideal for building prototypes, bots, and analytics tools.

Real-World Use Cases

• Portfolio Dashboards: Combine price charts (/coins/history/…), wallet token balances (from another source or API), and Dropstab’s unlock data to warn users of upcoming token releases.
• Trading Bots: Use /coins to find top movers and /cryptoActivities to spot news (e.g. token listing events), triggering strategy actions.
• Market Research: Analysts can query funding rounds and investor data to profile projects or VCs. For example, fetching /fundingRounds?limit=10 to show the latest raises with details like amounts and backers.
• Alerts and Notifications: Set up scripts to poll /tokenUnlocks for big unlock dates or /investors for changes in top fund rankings, and send Slack/Telegram alerts.
• Exchange Analytics: Build tools to compare exchange volumes by using /exchanges and /exchanges/{slug}/pairs. This can feed a “Exchange Market Share” chart.

Throughout these cases, developers get both high-level ease (pre-made endpoints) and granular control (filter params and coin slugs). DropsTab’s documentation shows sample code snippets in various languages for each endpoint (shell, Python, etc.), making it practical to integrate.

For use cases focused on real-time notifications — such as alerts for price spikes, wallet activity, or token unlocks — many developers pair the API with Telegram-based tools like Drops Bot, which supports instant alerts across 22+ chains.

DropsTab vs. Other Crypto Data APIs

CoinGecko / CoinMarketCap

Well-known free APIs for price and market data. They offer hundreds of endpoints (CoinGecko has 70+ publicly accessible endpoints covering prices, volumes, market caps, and even NFT/DEX data). However, they generally lack dedicated data on token unlock schedules, private funding rounds, or investor performance. DropsTab fills that gap by bundling these tokenomics endpoints with the standard market data in one platform.

Nansen

Focuses on on-chain analytics with labeled wallets (“Smart Money”) and blockchain flows. While powerful for tracking large holders or token contracts, Nansen’s API is oriented to on-chain events and user behavior. DropsTab, by contrast, gives native support for traditional market metrics and project fundamentals (e.g. vesting schedules), which Nansen does not provide out-of-the-box.

Dune/SQL APIs

Tools like Dune Analytics let you write custom SQL queries on blockchain data. They are flexible but require maintaining queries and are not pre-built for standard metrics. DropsTab offers ready endpoints, so developers don’t need to write and host custom queries for common data like price charts or funding lists.

Moralis

A comprehensive blockchain data platform for developers, offering RPC nodes and APIs for NFTs, wallets, balances, etc. Moralis shines at cross-chain wallet and NFT data. It also has market data (e.g. real-time prices) and rich Web3 features. DropsTab’s niche is more on combining market/tokenomics data with some on-chain context (like investors). In some use cases (e.g. portfolio trackers), one might use Moralis for wallet balances and DropsTab for price charts and tokenomics metrics.

DeFiLlama, Token Terminal, etc.

These specialize in DeFi TVL, project financials, or protocols. DropsTab is broader, not limited to DeFi. It covers all crypto projects, tokens, exchanges, etc., and includes “crypto activities” (which may cover broader events beyond DeFi).

Arkham Intelligence

Focuses on address labeling and on-chain intelligence (e.g. tagging addresses as “Polygon Labs,” etc.). DropsTab’s scope is different; it assumes projects and tokens as atomic units and provides data around them (prices, unlocks, funding). It does not currently provide on-chain transaction-level data or labels.

In summary, DropsTab positions itself as a one-stop API for crypto market and project data – mixing what you’d get from CoinGecko (prices, market charts) and what you’d get from specialized research reports (tokenomics schedules, funding histories). This makes it particularly valuable for developers and analysts who need both types of data seamlessly.

Key Takeaways

Broad Data Coverage

DropsTab API spans live prices, historical charts, token unlocks, fundraising events, investor analytics, and exchange info.

Developer-Centric

The REST endpoints are well-documented with examples; simple GET requests (with API key) return JSON. Code snippets in shell, Python, etc., are available for each call.

Unique Metrics

Tokenomics features (unlock schedules, locked vs unlocked supply) and funding round details (amounts, backers) are not commonly found in other APIs.

Use Cases

Ideal for building crypto dashboards, alert systems, trading tools, or research applications. For example, a dashboard can show Bitcoin’s price chart, list of upcoming token unlocks, and recent funding news in one place.

Competitive Edge

Compared to alternatives like CoinGecko (market data only) or Nansen (on-chain focus), DropsTab’s unique value is its integrated market + tokenomics dataset, giving Web3 developers a richer dataset to power apps and analyses.

By leveraging DropsTab’s endpoints, crypto-native developers and analysts can streamline data integration, saving time on data collection and focusing on building features and insights. The API’s combination of standard market data and specialized crypto metrics enables more powerful crypto analytics than many standalone data providers.

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