Established Assets

Data descriptions

• Direct price - Calculates a price for high-liquidity pairs using real-life trades from DeFi and CeFi exchanges.

• Synthetic price - Suitable when there's insufficient real-life trades to calculate a direct price. Calculates prices by routing through intermediary assets with higher liquidity (e.g., ETH → BTC → JPY instead of ETH → JPY)

• Principal market price - Calculates a price using by determining a principal market for a trading pair and aggregating the real-life trades from that market.

Data details

Data/channel	Historical data	Live?	Granularity	Exchange coverage	Asset coverage	Docs link	Methodology
Direct price
Stream	No	Yes	Publication window: 1s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, 1m Computation window: 1s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 5m	Cefi spot markets Defi spot markets	All cefi spot and defi spot instruments available on covered exchanges.	Direct price	https://www.kaiko.com/resources/methodologies
REST API	DEXs: Since genesis CEXs: Since 2010	Yes (15 minute lag on DEXs)	Time periods between 1-second and 1-day	Cefi spot markets Defi spot markets	All cefi spot and defi spot instruments available on covered exchanges.	Direct price	https://www.kaiko.com/resources/methodologies
Synthetic price
Stream	No	Yes	Publication window: 1s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, 1m Computation window: 1s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 5m	Cefi spot markets Defi spot markets	All cefi spot and defi spot instruments available on covered exchanges.	Synthetic price	https://www.kaiko.com/resources/methodologies
REST API	DEXs: Since genesis CEXs: Since 2010	Yes (15 minute lag on DEXs)	Time periods between 1-second and 1-day	Cefi spot markets Defi spot markets	All cefi spot and defi spot instruments available on covered exchanges.	Synthetic price	https://www.kaiko.com/resources/methodologies
Principal market price
	Since July 2025	Yes	Single point in time only	Top 20 ranked exchanges from Kaiko Exchange Ranking, filtered by those offering USD spot pairs.	All USD spot pairs on covered exchanges.	Principal market price	-