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Quickstart for Makers

Makers price and fill RFQs through the RFQ API. The flow below takes you from credentials to your first filled trade.

1. Get approved to quote​

Makers quote the instruments they are approved for. If you are not yet onboarded, reach out to the team on Telegram to get set up.

2. Mint API credentials​

Authentication is wallet-based: a SIWE login mints an access key and HMAC secret, and every private request is signed with the secret. Follow the authentication guide.

3. Deposit funds​

Send funds on-chain; Silhouette observes and credits deposits to your account. Withdrawals are asynchronous and always return to your account's registered address, and may name the custody rail to pay from. Balances are reported per token and per custody rail, each line carrying available, locked, and pending amounts plus the ceiling on a single withdrawal from that rail, and the ledger gives you an append-only audit trail for reconciliation. See the balance and funding endpoints in the API Reference.

4. Discover and quote​

Poll listMakerRequests for open RFQs on your approved instruments, or subscribe to the WebSocket streams for live updates. Submit quotes with createMakerQuote. A quote declares how it settles: from your inventory, through an external venue, or as a promised delivery within a bounded window.

5. Settle what you win​

At the deadline one quote is selected. Read your SELECTED quote back through listMakerQuotes; it carries the engine-signed Permit2 authorization you relay on-chain to settle.

Next steps​

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