A crypto feed continues across weekends, but continuous trading does not mean every venue or connection is continuously available.
Schedule monitoring and incident ownership for Saturday and Sunday. A feed outage outside a traditional FX session still affects crypto charts and risk calculations; planned maintenance must have a visible status rather than silently retaining Friday's values.
Test reconnects during a quiet weekend and during a busy market interval. Distinguish a healthy connection with no instrument updates from a stalled subscription, and decide when the consumer should stop presenting a quote as current.
Bring the proposed instrument list, source documentation and consumer workflow to a technical discussion. The agreed integration specification defines coverage, fields, usage permissions and acceptance tests.
| Instrument scope | Identify the exact underlying, source identifier, quote currency and intended use. |
|---|---|
| Consumer workflow | List trading platforms, charts, risk tools and applications that need the output. |
| Delivery contract | Agree protocol, quote fields, timestamps, source status and recovery behaviour. |
| Production review | Confirm source rights, integration ownership, test evidence and commercial scope. |
For digital assets, define who consumes the prices and what each system needs to reconstruct a usable quote. An application dashboard, broker platform and historical process can require different delivery rules even when they share one normalized instrument model.