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# API Keys

You can use API to query data.

## Acquire API Keys

In order to use our API directly first need to generate API Keys

In order to do so please **Connect wallet** and select option `API Keys` to prove you are address owner.

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Select API Keys once wallet is connected

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Sign the text that includes your address and timestamp

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Copy API key for the required domain

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## Using API Key

After you received and copied the API key you must add it in **Authorization** header like `Authorization: Bearer xxxx`

where xxxx is your API Key.

| Name          | Value              |
| ------------- | ------------------ |
| Content-Type  | `application/json` |
| Authorization | `Bearer xxxx`      |

## Limits

Rate limit is **20 request per minute**, in case you get over the limit you would get value **in seconds** when you could retry the next request in `Retry-After` or `X-RateLimit-Reset` in response headers and error response in **429** status looking similar to that one:

`{`

`error: "Rate limit exceeded", message: Slow down, try again in 22 seconds.`

`}`