Create Issuer Quote

Creates a request for a quote where Paxos is the issuer. Note that PAXG quotes will be unavailable when the London gold market is closed.

POST /issuer-quote

Create Issuer Quote

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "profile_id": "<string>",
  "market": "<string>",
  "base_amount": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote"

payload = {
    "profile_id": "<string>",
    "market": "<string>",
    "base_amount": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({profile_id: '<string>', market: '<string>', base_amount: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'profile_id' => '<string>',
    'market' => '<string>',
    'base_amount' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"profile_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"market\": \"<string>\",\n  \"base_amount\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"profile_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"market\": \"<string>\",\n  \"base_amount\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.paxos.com/v2/issuer-quote")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"profile_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"market\": \"<string>\",\n  \"base_amount\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "quote_id": "2ce28645-2e1c-4a5d-8799-90e7b6e02673",
  "market": "PAXGUSD",
  "side": "SELL",
  "quantity": "0.05",
  "price": "11.33",
  "fee": "0.02",
  "quote_amount": "0.34",
  "expires_at": "2025-09-11T11:23:03.327913249Z"
}

OAuth Scope

exchange:write_issuer_quote

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Paxos APIs use OAuth 2 with the client credentials grant flow.

Token URLs:

• Production: https://oauth.paxos.com/oauth2/token
• Sandbox: https://oauth.sandbox.paxos.com/oauth2/token

Learn more in the API credentials guide →

Body

application/json

profile_id · string · required

The profile ID under which to execute this order.

market · string · required

Trading pair for the quote. Only "PAXGUSD" is currently supported.

side · enum<string> · required

Trade side.

Available options: BUY, SELL

base_amount · string<decimal> · required

The amount of assets (crypto) to mint or redeem.

Response

200 - application/json

A successful response.

quote_id · string · required

The ID of the held issuer quote for buying or selling an asset.

market · string · required

Trading pair for the issuer quote.

side · enum<string> · required

Trade side.

Available options: BUY, SELL

quantity · string<decimal> · required

Amount of asset (crypto) in the issuer quote.

price · string<decimal> · required

Cost per unit of the asset.

fee · string<decimal> · required

Fee to pay for the transaction.

quote_amount · string<decimal> · required

Amount of fiat to spend or acquire using the issuer quote, excluding fees.

expires_at · string<date-time> · required

The time at which the issuer quote expires.