# Ripio Trade > Ripio is a Latin American cryptocurrency exchange (since 2013) offering crypto trading, stablecoins, DeFi products, a Visa card, and B2B infrastructure across Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Spain. The Ripio Trade API (v4) is a REST + WebSocket trading API for market data, orders, balances, deposits and cryptocurrency withdrawals. ## APIs - [Ripio Trade API v4 docs](https://apidocs.ripiotrade.co/): REST + WebSocket trading API. Base URL https://api.ripiotrade.co/v4/. - [Create API credentials](https://trade.ripio.com/market/api/token): API Token + Secret Key for HMAC-SHA256 signing. ## Specs - [OpenAPI 3.0.0 (harvested)](openapi/ripio-trade-openapi.yml): 46 operations, 204 schemas, apiToken header auth. - [Webhooks / WebSocket surface](asyncapi/ripio-trade-webhooks.yml): market-data + user event stream and wss://ws-api.ripio.com order API. ## Artifacts - [Authentication](authentication/ripio-authentication.yml): API Token + HMAC-SHA256 request signing. - [Conventions](conventions/ripio-conventions.yml): idempotency via external_id, cursor pagination, error envelope, uri-path versioning. - [Error codes](errors/ripio-error-codes.yml): numeric error_code registry (40000–50003, 503). - [Rate limits](rate-limits/ripio-rate-limits.yml): 1 req/s (86,400/day) unapproved; 3.5 req/s (302,400/day) approved. - [Lifecycle](lifecycle/ripio-lifecycle.yml): v4 current, v3 maintained ≥3 months, status.ripio.com. - [Data model](data-model/ripio-data-model.yml): Pair, Order, Trade, Balance, Deposit, Withdrawal, Wallet. - [Conformance & compliance](conformance/ripio-conformance.yml): SOC 2 Type II (B2B). ## Docs - [Developer docs](https://apidocs.ripiotrade.co/) - [Status page](https://status.ripio.com/) - [Help center](https://help.ripio.com/) - [Security](https://www.ripio.com/es/seguridad): SOC 2 Type II, HackerOne bug bounty. - [GitHub org](https://github.com/ripio)