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CoinTracker API
Chandan
Let users embed CoinTracker info into third party website. For example:
- Coin info (price history, volume, etc.)
- Transactions
- Wallets/Exchanges
- Exchanges
- Alerts
- Cost basis
- Capital gains/losses
Use cases:
- Trading (real-time)
- Embedding tax information in exchanges/wallets
- Advanced personal custom portfolio tracking
User requests
Ideally, I'd like to supply a webhook URL to CoinTracker and have a lambda function get called for every new transaction that gets added. And then a simple CRUD API for transactions.
Alternatively, and maybe even better, would be to integrate scripting/automation into the product itself with something like https://auth0.com/extend
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CT-zXxe9jaO
A specific use case I can imagine a CoinTracker API being able to facilitate is the automation of manual transaction entries from a merchant's PoS system for currencies whose wallets aren't supported by CoinTracker currently. Admittedly, a number of crypto payment processors already support (to varying degrees) tax reporting. But that doesn't account for if someone is using/built their own tool for collecting crypto payments that is outside of that established ecosystem.
Chandan
@CT-zXxe9jaO: Is there a particular provider you are thinking of for this?
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@Chandan: I didn't have any providers in mind. Where that thought came from was during my time researching Monero and what merchant tooling there was for accepting it. I noticed that while there are payment processors that facilitate that process, there were a significant number of independent WooCommerce and similar plugins for different platforms that seemed to be available. Because Monero wallets aren't supported on Cointracker, a merchant using one of those plugins probably wouldn't have the simple visibility into their tax obligations that Cointracker provides. Obviously not including sales or other ancillary taxes. And I'm aware that the Monero community, privacy focused as they are, may not necessarily care about this. However, I'm sure other cryptos whose wallets aren't supported by Cointracker might be.
Additionally, I was testing the Exodus wallet this morning and noticed that a number of the wallets it loads into Cointracker don't support auto-sync. If there was a Cointracker API available, I'm sure that with how they seem eager to add integrations/apps into their wallet, they would be interested in automatically adding transactions inside the wallet to Cointracker.