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# CCXT Integration

Current capabilities and operational boundaries of Sidepit's CCXT adapter.

Sidepit maintains a CCXT-shaped adapter in [`Public-API/integrations/ccxt`](https://github.com/sidepit/Public-API/tree/main/integrations/ccxt). It runs through the repository's optional local REST/WebSocket facade and has not yet been submitted upstream to CCXT.

## Capability contract

* `createOrder: true`
* `createMarketOrder: true`
* market `timeInForce: IOC`
* limit and market orders, cancel, balances, positions, open orders, trades, ticker, depth, bars, and account-scoped order observation
* CCXT Pro watches for ticker, order book, trades, one-minute bars, orders, and account trades

Native market orders omit price so protobuf uses `NewOrder.price=0`. The adapter returns an optimistic `open` status after submission because the next DLOB one-second deterministic auction determines the outcome. Confirm it with `fetchOrder`, `fetchOpenOrders`, `watchOrders`, and rejections.

## Price conversion

Sidepit's native integer price is sats per USD. The adapter exposes unified BTC per USD:

`BTC-per-USD = sats-per-USD × 0.00000001`

Conversion happens once at the adapter boundary.

## Credentials

For delegated trading:

* `apiKey` is the owner's public `bc1q` Sidepit ID;
* `secret` is the restricted agent's signing secret; and
* `options.traderId` is that agent key's derived `bc1q` address.

Never configure the owner's money key as an automated trading secret. Keep the local facade local: the adapter serializes and signs client-side, and the relay should receive signed bytes rather than custody a key.

## Build and smoke test

Follow the current [`integrations/ccxt/README.md`](https://github.com/sidepit/Public-API/blob/main/integrations/ccxt/README.md). The smoke test distinguishes closed-session reads from an explicitly funded live cycle and verifies offline that market wire bytes omit the price field.


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