aid: bison-trails
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bison-trails.png
name: Bison Trails
description: 'Bison Trails was a blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2018 by Joe Lallouz and
  Aaron Henshaw, offering infrastructure-as-a-service for participating in and securing proof-of-stake
  and other blockchain networks across dozens of protocols (staking, validators, and node infrastructure).
  Backed by Initialized Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and others, it was acquired by Coinbase in January 2021
  and folded into Coinbase Cloud. The bisontrails.co domain now redirects to Coinbase''s cloud/node
  infrastructure offering at coinbase.com/cloud, and no independent developer portal, documentation,
  or public API surface remains under the Bison Trails brand.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bison-trails/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- initialized-capital
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Infrastructure
- Staking
- Web3
- Node Infrastructure
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: coinbase
x-acquired-date: '2021-01'
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bison-trails-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bisontrails.co/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence