The Vertalo platform is a modern, blockchain-aware architecture that supports many functions, including:
- Digital asset configuration and management
- Investor onboarding (with KYC/AML, accreditation, document signing)
- Payment processing
- Cap table management
- Securities issuance
- Tokenization
- ATS integration
- General transfer agency services
As an “integration first” company, Vertalo has designed its platform in an open and flexible way. This makes it possible for our partners to integrate with our platform through the Vertalo API when and where it’s needed. This could range from pushing or pulling data for a specific purpose to a full scale implementation of a custom UI that you design. (The Vertalo portal is, in fact, a reference application built on top of our own API.)
The key to understanding how our API operates is understanding the GraphQL specification originally conceived of by Facebook in 2012. GraphQL is now an open standard that any vendor can implement. (Click here to see a current list of implementations.) It is very different from the traditional REST model and the overhead that is frequently associated with having to make multiple round trips to various endpoints in order to perform the actions you want, and the frequent over/under fetching that ensues. Instead, a GraphQL implementation exposes a single endpoint that can accept complex queries and mutations based on a uniform query language. It is then up to the server-side GraphQL implementation to resolve the request, reading or writing data as directed across one or more data sources.
Vertalo has established a GraphQL schema that allows our integration partners to read/write information from/to the Vertalo platform.
This primer is by no means exhaustive, but is meant to get you well-grounded in the basics of the Vertalo API so that you can explore further on your own. The ordering of sections throughout this primer represents the typical order of operations you will perform using the API relative to your account/role. If you require further support in your exploration of the Vertalo API, please contact Vertalo at integrations@vertalo.com.
Recommended reading:
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GraphQL specification: http://spec.graphql.org
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GraphQL tutorial: https://graphql.org/learn