# Welcome

Aleno provides high-performance, cross-chain price and liquidity data for digital assets, purpose-built for oracle networks, DeFi analytics, and institutional-grade monitoring. Our infrastructure aggregates both **on-chain DEX** and **centralized exchange (CEX)** market data with a strong emphasis on transparency, composability, and real-time responsiveness.

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### **What You Can Do With This API**

* 🔍 **Get real-time prices** from CEXs and DEXs across multiple chains
* 💧 **Access deep liquidity metrics**, including USD TVL and 24h volume
* 🧮 **Discover token pairs and pools** using normalized identifiers
* ⚡ **Power oracles, dashboards, and risk systems** with production-ready endpoints
* 🧠 **Integrate pricing logic** based on our liquidity- and volume-weighted methodology

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### **Core Concepts**

* **Assets** — Tokens normalized across chains with canonical symbols (e.g., `SOL`, `WBTC`, `USDC`).
* **Pools** — Liquidity pools aggregated across protocols and chains.
* **Tickers** — Aggregated prices for asset pairs (e.g., `WBTC/USD`), combining DEX + CEX sources.
* **DEX Protocols** — Coverage includes Uniswap v2/v3, Curve, Balancer, Trader Joe v2.x, Solidly, Orca, and more.
* **Chains** — Data spans EVM chains (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc.) and non-EVM chains (Solana), with more being added.

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### **Quickstart**

1. **Get an API key** — Required for all routes.
2. **Try the `/v1/assets/ticker` endpoint**

   ```bash
   curl -X GET "https://pricing.aleno.ai/v1/assets/ticker?symbol=WBTC/USD" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
   ```
3. **Explore endpoints** via the navigation pane.

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### **Support and Integrations**

* 💬 Have questions? Get in touch with our team.
* 📈 Need custom metrics, alerts, or higher throughput? Reach out for enterprise options.
* 🧩 Looking to integrate with Chainlink, Pyth, or custom oracles? We're built for it.