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Exponential

Exponential.fi is a DeFi company (backed by Paradigm and Norwest Venture Partners) behind YO Protocol — a cross-chain "Yield Optimizer" that automatically allocates deposits across the best-performing liquidity pools on multiple blockchains to deliver the highest risk-adjusted yield, using Exponential.fi's own Risk Ratings to balance risk and reward. yoVaults are ERC-4626 tokenized vaults (yoUSD, yoETH, yoBTC, yoEUR, yoGOLD, yoSOL and more) with ERC-7540-style async redemption, all routed through the single yoGateway entry point. The developer surface spans a public read API (api.yo.xyz), a first-party TypeScript SDK/React kit/CLI (@yo-protocol/*), official agent skills and a Base MCP plugin, and the YO Risk Graph — a paid, agent-facing DeFi risk-intelligence API monetized per-call via the x402 USDC micropayment standard on Base.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Exponential the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Exponential scores 40.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Exponential Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Exponential

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Exponential. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Exponential Agent API

The Agent API from Exponential — 4 operation(s) for agent.

Exponential History API

The History API from Exponential — 1 operation(s) for history.

Exponential Performance API

The Performance API from Exponential — 1 operation(s) for performance.

Exponential Public API

The Public API from Exponential — 1 operation(s) for public.

Exponential Vault API

The Vault API from Exponential — 5 operation(s) for vault.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 2

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

YO Risk Graph triage

Learn the graph schema, find an entity, read its risk grade and rationale, then map its 1-hop dependencies. Every step settles an x402 micropayment.

ARAZZO

YO vault snapshot and user position

Read a vault's current snapshot, yield and TVL history, and a user's pending redemptions.

ARAZZO

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Exponential Authentication

none/payment-gated · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Exponential Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Exponential Agentic Access

12 operations

12 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Exponential — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Exponential, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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