# Laevitas Perpetuals Open Interest

> Laevitas Perpetuals Open Interest is a paid API for AI agents from apiv2.laevitas.ch, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns historical open interest data for perpetual futures contracts across major crypto exchanges

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://apiv2.laevitas.ch/api/v1/perpetuals/open-interest
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/laevitas-perpetuals-open-interest-badd143e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_20mXHgsuH_BkGLPe_L9Gj

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability laevitas-perpetuals-open-interest-badd143e
```

Example prompt: Show me the hourly open interest for BTC perpetuals on Binance for the past week — up to 168 data points.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need historical or recent open interest data specifically for perpetual futures contracts across major crypto exchanges like Binance, OKX, Deribit, Bybit, or Hyperliquid. Prefer this over options or spot endpoints when the asset is a perpetual swap. Best for quantitative analysis, position sizing context, or detecting market sentiment shifts via OI changes.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid API key / unpaid x402 request returns 401 or 402
- Invalid exchange name returns empty data or 400 error
- Invalid instrument_name returns empty data array
- start/end timestamps in wrong format cause 400 error
- limit exceeds 1000 causes validation error
- No data available for specified time range returns empty data array with success:true

## How this service works

Professional market data API for crypto derivatives, spot markets, prediction markets, Hyperliquid HyperCore data, proprietary volatility surfaces, and analytics.

## Authentication

Use an API key for authenticated REST requests:

```http
X-API-Key: your-api-key-here
```

Most data endpoints also support x402 pay-per-request without an API key.

| Resource | Path |
| --- | --- |
| OpenAPI JSON | `GET /openapi.json` |
| x402 discovery | `GET /.well-known/x402` |
| Changelog | `GET /api/v1/changelog` |
| WebSocket docs | `GET /websocket` |

## REST Surfaces

| Surface | Examples |
| --- | --- |
| Instruments | Cross-market contract reference data |
| Futures | OHLCVT, trades, tickers, orderbook, liquidations, carry |
| Perpetuals | OHLCVT, trades, funding, open interest, orderbook, liquidations |
| Options | OHLCVT, trades, Greeks, volatility, flow, dealer GEX |
| Vol Surface | Proprietary surface snapshots, slices, strikes, term structure, risk |
| Spot | OHLCVT, ticker, trades, volume, L2 orderbook, snapshots |
| Predictions | Polymarket instruments, categories, trades, ticker history |
| Hyperliquid - HyperCore | Node-derived fills, liquidations, positions, funding, TWAPs, resting orders, L2 books |
| Analytics | Realized volatility and derived metrics |

## Pagination

Paginated endpoints return the cursor at `meta.next_cursor`. Pass that value back as the `cursor` query parameter to fetch the next page.

## WebSocket Streaming

Real-time streams are documented at `/websocket`.

| Data | Channel pattern |
| --- | --- |
| Trades | `trades.{market}.{exchange}.{instrument}` |
| OHLC ticker | `ohlc.ticker.{market}.{exchange}.{instrument}.{timeframe}` |
| OHLCVT | `ohlc.vt.{market}.{exchange}.{instrument}.{timeframe}` |

Variables: `market` is one of `perpetuals`, `futures`, `options`, or `spot`; `timeframe` is one of `1m`, `5m`, `15m`, `1h`, `4h`, or `1d`.

## Quick Start

```bash
curl "https://apiv2.laevitas.ch/api/v1/futures/ohlcvt?exchange=deribit&instrument_name=BTC-PERPETUAL" \
  -H "X-API-Key: your-api-key-here"
```

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' array containing open interest records for the queried perpetual instrument, timestamped and filtered by exchange, instrument name, resolution, and time range. Supports cursor-based pagination for large datasets.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "end": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 1000,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "start": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "cursor": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "exchange": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "resolution": {
       "enum": [
        "1m",
        "5m",
        "15m",
        "1h",
        "4h",
        "1d"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "instrument_name": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": [],
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

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