API Quickstart Guide

This page provides a high-level overview to help you get started navigating the API docs to perform core actions.

Getting Started - Step 1 ⏩ https://docs.dakota.xyz/

Our documentation makes it easy to integrate Dakota into your product, so you can ship global financial workflows that feel like software, not banking.

1. Get Dashboard Access

   1. Please ask your salesperson to provide you with a Sandbox account

2. Create an API key

   1. Sandbox: platform.sandbox.dakota.xyz

   2. Production: platform.dakota.xyz

3. Use an SDK (optional)

4. Make your first API call

Common Flows - Step 2 ⏩ https://docs.dakota.xyz/documentation/common-flows

Dakota's API turns a handful of REST resources into fiat-to-crypto onramps, crypto-to-fiat offramps, cross-chain swaps, and non-custodial wallets. Follow the sections end-to-end to set up a fiat-to-crypto onramp, or skip to the section you need — offramp, swap, or non-custodial wallet. URLs are production (api.platform.dakota.xyz); swap to api.platform.sandbox.dakota.xyz for sandbox testing.

One section per Dakota resource deliberately laid out in the order they should be tested: customer, counterparty, onramp, offramp, swap, wallet.

1. Create a Customer

2. Create a Recipient and Destination

3. Create an Onramp

4. Create an Offramp

5. Create a Swap

6. Create a Wallet

7. Try It Live