- The program codes in this project will help you understand how circle uses APIs to settle financial transactions involving crypto currencies, fiat currencies and the platform's own stablecoin-USDC.
- Currently, most economies do not have financial systems that provide faster transaction exchanges between crypto and fiat currencies.
- This is where circle APIs and SDK are handy, as they seal this gap and offer more flexible means of transacting with different currencies.
- Ensure nodejs is installed in your machine. if not, visit here and install according to your operating system: https://nodejs.org/en/download
- Clone the project to your local machine.
- Navigate to the project directory.
- npm install @circle-fin/circle-sdk --save
- Run
npm install
to install all the dependencies.
- Nodejs
- Javascript
- Create and store safely circle API key by visiting the Sandbox API endpoint link- https://api-sandbox.circle.com
- Save the account credentials/environment variables in .env file of your project.
- Store the .env file in the gitignore file so that it's not pushed to the repo with the other necessary files.
- Test using Postman.