# Kaiko

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Kaiko is a crypto market data and analytics provider. It supplies institutional investors, financial services firms, and regulators with market data, analytics, and indices spanning centralized and decentralized markets.

Kaiko is a data and analytics company serving the digital asset industry. It supplies market data feeds, analytics, indices, and monitoring tools that connect traditional finance with onchain capital markets. Its customers include financial institutions, crypto native enterprises, and regulators that need auditable, regulated data to operate across centralized and decentralized markets.

The company addresses the difficulty of sourcing consistent, verifiable pricing and trading data across a fragmented market structure spanning many exchanges and protocols. It aggregates and normalizes trading, reference, and blockchain data, then distributes it through feeds and APIs for use in front and mid office operations, risk management, and reporting. Kaiko Indices operates as a regulated benchmark administrator, providing indices and calculation agent services used in financial products, and the company publishes independent attestations of its data controls.

Its offering spans data feeds covering spot and derivatives markets and lending protocols, analytics products for execution benchmarking, fair value pricing, and portfolio risk, and monitoring solutions for market surveillance and anti-money laundering compliance. Kaiko Data Services extends this with oracle infrastructure that brings market data onchain. The company has grown through acquisitions of complementary data and indexing businesses, and it is used by exchanges, asset managers, custodians, and regulators that require standardized crypto market data for compliance and financial product development.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Data & Analytics
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2014-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko

## Products

- [Kaiko Data Feeds](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko): Kaiko Data Feeds is a market data API product that delivers real-time and historical cryptocurrency pricing and trading information for application integration. It aggregates trade, order book, and reference data from centralized and decentralized venues and distributes it through streaming, REST API, and cloud-based delivery channels. Financial institutions and developers use it for front and mid-office operations, business intelligence, and risk management. The product bundles asset reference data covering identifiers, supply metrics, and derivative contract specifications alongside granular level 1 and level 2 market depth data across spot, derivatives, and lending markets. (Pricing Data API, Live, Main Product)
- [Kaiko Analytics Solutions](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko): Kaiko Analytics Solutions is a data analytics suite providing execution benchmarking, fair value pricing, portfolio risk analysis, and derivatives risk metrics for digital assets. It calculates market-representative execution benchmarks, values assets for fair value and regulatory reporting, and models portfolio value-at-risk and expected shortfall using underlying market data. Institutional investors, asset managers, and trading desks use it to report execution efficiency, meet valuation standards, and forecast volatility through implied volatility models and contract-level derivatives statistics. All analytics are delivered through subscription-based API access rather than an integrated trading interface. (Data Terminal, Live)
- [Kaiko Monitoring Solutions](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko): Kaiko Monitoring Solutions is a market and blockchain monitoring suite combining trade surveillance, market data exploration, and anti-money-laundering checks. It provides automated alerts to detect potential market manipulation, an API for assessing global market structure through trading volumes and on-chain and off-chain transaction data, and identity and source-of-wealth checks alongside network analysis of token supply and decentralization. Compliance teams, exchanges, and financial institutions use it to meet market integrity and anti-money-laundering requirements. The suite is accessed through a shared dashboard and API delivery model across its surveillance, market analysis, and compliance components. (Onchain Compliance and Investigations, Live)
- [Kaiko Data Services](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko): Kaiko Data Services is an oracle and data infrastructure product that delivers cryptocurrency, foreign exchange, and reference market data directly on-chain for institutional use. It brings Kaiko's proprietary market data, along with vetted third-party data, onto blockchain networks through a data on-ramp that preserves the originating provider as the authoritative source, and it also extracts blockchain data back to traditional finance systems through a data off-ramp. Financial institutions and on-chain applications use it for mark-to-market valuations, net asset value calculations, collateral pricing, and perpetual futures price feeds without relying on intermediaries. The oracle infrastructure operates across privacy-enabled distributed ledgers and rollup networks, with additional EVM-compatible and non-EVM chains available on request. (Oracle, Live)
- [Kaiko Indices](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kaiko): Kaiko Indices is a benchmark and index data product providing single-asset reference rates and multi-asset index prices for digital assets, operated under a registered benchmark administrator status. It is delivered through streaming subscriptions, institutional-grade APIs, and blockchain-based oracle feeds, publishing continuously to support always-on use cases such as perpetual futures. Index providers, exchanges, and financial product issuers use it to reference standardized crypto pricing benchmarks for listings, derivative products, and custom index construction. (Pricing Data API, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.kaiko.com)
- [Documentation](https://docs.kaiko.com)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.kaiko.com/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://marketing.kaiko.com/hubfs/Website%20documents/Kaiko%20-%20Privacy%20Policy%20(v.1.0).pdf)
- [Blog](https://www.kaiko.com/resources/categories/data-blog)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/kaikodata)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/KaikoData)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kaikodata)

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