DEX trades

What is this endpoint for?

Tick-level data is the most granular level of trading data and contains every single trade that occurs on decentralized exchanges. The data is normalized and timestamped and contains information such as the price and volume of each trade, the user address, the blockchain, the pool address, and the transaction hash related to the trade. Read our DEX trade data methodology here.

Endpoint

https://{region}.market-api.kaiko.io/v3/data/trades.v1/dexs/{blockchain}/{asset_address}

Path Parameters

Parameter	Required?	Description
region	Yes	Choose between eu and us.
blockchain	Yes	Blockchain name.
asset_address	Yes	Asset address on the specified blockchain.

Query Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
start_time	No	Starting time in ISO 8601 (inclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
end_time	No	Ending time in ISO 8601 (exclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
page_size	No	See Pagination Automatically included in continuation tokens.
continuation_token	No	See Pagination
sort	No	Return the data in ascending (asc) or descending (desc) order. Default desc.

Fields

Field	Description
timestamp	The timestamp provided by the exchange or the collection timestamp in Unix Timestamp (in nanoseconds)
trade_id	Unique trade ID (unique to the exchange). In case the exchange does not provide an ID, we generate it ourselves.
price	Price displayed in quote currency.
token1_address
token2_address
amount	Quantity of asset bought or sold (can be in base_asset, quote_asset or the number of contracts).
taker_side_sell	See "taker_side_sell" Explained
blockchain	The blockchain on which the trade happened.
transaction_hash	Transaction hash.
log_index	The log index of the event (in base 10).
pool_address	The address of the pool in which the trade happened.
user_address	Trader address (beneficiary).
block_number	The block number.

Request examples

cURL

curl --compressed -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'X-Api-Key: <client-api-key>' \
  'https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v3/data/trades.v1/dexs/ethereum/0xcd5fe23c85820f7b72d0926fc9b05b43e359b7ee'

Python

Response example

{
    "query":
    {
        "start_time": "2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
        "page_size": 100,
        "exchange": "*",
        "instrument_class": "*",
        "instrument": "*",
        "sort": "desc",
        "data_version": "v1",
        "commodity": "dex_trades",
        "request_time": "2026-06-18T17:48:43.355Z",
        "start_timestamp": 1262304000000,
        "live": "True"
    },
    "time": "2026-06-18T17:48:43.355Z",
    "timestamp": 1781804923355,
    "access":
    {
        "access_range":
        {
            "start_timestamp": 1073001600000,
            "end_timestamp": 1861830000000
        },
        "data_range":
        {
            "start_timestamp": "None",
            "end_timestamp": 1861830000000
        }
    },
    "data":
    [
        {
            "timestamp": 1781804435000,
            "trade_id": "ethereum-u4-0x373d4a1b17f68ef3e7a35fa7069301d8dd0491b1345a3e2c1987449c894a3d43-0x19b-0x7b2df9aa55101bb4251bb0a3d48ca08deedf3eefc39899d9fea1192e751b5bcf",
            "price": "0.9115886885456722",
            "token1_address": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
            "token2_address": "0xcd5fe23c85820f7b72d0926fc9b05b43e359b7ee",
            "amount": "0.05",
            "taker_side_sell": "False",
            "blockchain": "ethereum",
            "transaction_hash": "0x373d4a1b17f68ef3e7a35fa7069301d8dd0491b1345a3e2c1987449c894a3d43",
            "log_index": 411,
            "pool_address": "0x8fab936c814e050b67f4ff50c73bd35561f0c7e8855c7f6aaa38f6762d3520f2",
            "user_address": "0xba8d1c4fce49bcc8aa5146bccdeaf8d032697613",
            "block_number": 25346002
        },
        /* MORE ROWS */
    ],
    "result": "success",
    "continuation_token": "xxx",
    "next_url": "https://eu.market-api.kaiko.io/v3/data/trades.v1/dexs/ethereum/0xcd5fe23c85820f7b72d0926fc9b05b43e359b7ee?continuation_token=xxx"
}