Digital asset API security: a defensive design checklist
Review authorization, sensitive properties, resource limits, upstream data, credentials, and recovery paths.
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Connected reading on security across the DigitalAssetAPI.com library.
Review authority before adding capability. These guides cover wallet approvals, custody responsibilities, event verification, and API boundaries, with concrete review questions and deliberately limited reference examples.
These guides are grouped by their shared questions rather than one product category. Compare their scope, assumptions, and evidence before adapting a pattern to a new setting.
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Review authorization, sensitive properties, resource limits, upstream data, credentials, and recovery paths.

Separate connection, signing, approvals, and transaction status with a wallet experience that makes authority visible.

Separate observation, approval, signing, recovery, and policy changes before introducing custody responsibilities.

Design for duplicates, retries, out-of-order notifications, and recovery with an evidence-first event pipeline.