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Utility APIs

When integrating ZBD API for payments capabilities in your system, it’s important to have utility functions ready to help you go from 0 to 1. We’ve made a set of these Utility APIs available to help you integrate faster.

BTC USD Exchange Rate

Fetches the latest price for 1 Bitcoin in US dollars for price calculations.

Is Supported Region

Determines whether a user is located in a region ZBD is available in.

ZBD Production IPs

Provides up-to-date static IP addresses for ZBD servers.

Internal Transfers

Move funds from one ZBD Project to another programmatically.

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Troubleshooting

Below are some of the most common issues developers run into when integrating ZBD API.

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Cannot consume this service

If you receive a response from the ZBD API that resembles this message you cannot consume this service it means that you are likely using a Sandbox API key to invoke a Live API endpoint in the ZBD API (or vice versa). Try swapping from sandbox-api.zebedee.io to api.zebedee.io or vice versa, and trying again.

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External resources

The ZBD API abstracts away all of the complexity around the Bitcoin and Lightning Network protocols, so you only have to know how to interact with a simple API.

But if you want to dig deeper, here are some developer resources to know:

Lightning Address

Receive Bitcoin payments to user@domain.com.

Lightning Decoder

Decode any Bitcoin Lightning QR or address.

LNURL Specs

Lightning Network URL protocol document specs.

Lightning Network Specs

Lightning Network protocol document specifications.

bolt11.org

Overview of a Bitcoin Lightning payment request.

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