OpenBazaar
OpenBazaar is an open-source, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace protocol that let buyers and sellers trade goods and services directly with one another using cryptocurrency, with no central company, listing fees, or intermediaries taking a cut. Trades were coordinated over a distributed network built on IPFS and libp2p, settled with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and secured with multisignature escrow and third-party moderation. The project originated from the DarkMarket proof-of-concept and was developed and funded by the company OB1 (backed by a16z, Union Square Ventures, and others). The OpenBazaar server daemon exposed a local JSON REST API on the node that desktop, mobile, and web clients used to manage listings, orders, wallets, and profiles. OB1 wound down commercial operations and the hosted services in early 2021, and the code was open-sourced to the community. The openbazaar.org site now advertises an in-development "OpenBazaar 3.0" successor, and the GitHub organization hosts the legacy Python (1.0) and Go (2.0) daemons alongside newer Rust and browser-based clients.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles OpenBazaar the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — OpenBazaar scores 7.4/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile OpenBazaar
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenBazaar. 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.
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for OpenBazaar — 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.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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