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name: pro-api.coinmarketcap.com
description: pro-api.coinmarketcap.com exposes CoinMarketCap's professional data API. The single skill available here performs keyword or symbol searches across DEX-listed tokens, returning price, volume, liquidity, market cap, and chain metadata for matching results.
host: pro-api.coinmarketcap.com
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# pro-api.coinmarketcap.com

This host provides access to CoinMarketCap's DEX token search endpoint. It is suited for agents that need to discover or look up tokens traded on decentralized exchanges by name or symbol, and retrieve associated market data such as current price, 24-hour volume, and liquidity. It does not cover centralized exchange data, streaming feeds, or broader CoinMarketCap catalog endpoints.

## When to use this host

Use this host when an agent needs to look up a token by name or symbol across DEX markets and retrieve current price, 24h volume, liquidity, or chain metadata from CoinMarketCap's index. Do not use it for CEX market data (use CoinMarketCap's CEX listings or quotes endpoints instead), for real-time or streaming price feeds, for historical OHLCV data, or for any CoinMarketCap data outside of DEX token search. If the agent needs broader market coverage — such as global quotes, exchange rankings, or on-chain analytics — a different host or API surface is required.

## Capabilities

### DEX Token Discovery

Searches CoinMarketCap's DEX index by token name or symbol and returns matching tokens with price, volume, liquidity, market cap, and chain/platform metadata in a single call.

- **`search-dex-tokens`** — Searches CoinMarketCap DEX markets and returns matching tokens with price, volume, liquidity, market cap, and chain metadata.

## Skill reference

### `search-dex-tokens`

**DEX Token Search** — Searches CoinMarketCap DEX markets and returns matching tokens with price, volume, liquidity, market cap, and chain metadata.

*Use when:* Use when an agent needs to find DEX-listed tokens by name or symbol, retrieve current price and 24h volume data, or discover trading pairs across decentralized exchanges indexed by CoinMarketCap.

*Not for:* Do not use for centralized exchange (CEX) market data; use the CoinMarketCap CEX listings or quotes endpoints instead. Not suitable for real-time streaming price feeds — this is a single-shot search.

**Inputs:**

- `q` (string, required) — Search query string — token name or symbol to search for across DEX markets.

**Returns:** Returns data.total count and a data.tks array of up to 50 token objects, each with chain, address, USD price, 24h price change, volume, market cap, liquidity, and metadata URLs.

**Example:** `GET https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/x402/v1/dex/search?q=NULL`

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