Major cryptocurrency exchange ioqtrade.com has made its own application programming interface.
The new functionality
The crypto exchange advertises as providing a faster and more efficient interface for those customers who create software applications for trading and accessing ioqtrade market data.
In order for ioqtrade customers to subscribe to the private feed, the customer must first request an authentication token through the REST API, a secure authentication mechanism that uses API keys and cryptographic hashing algorithms.