Challenge
A financial services company managing multiple cryptocurrency investment trusts needed a solution to display real-time pricing and market performance data across their website.
Their internal API contained sensitive financial data that required secure integration, event-driven updates, and flexible presentation formats for different audiences.
Solution
We built a custom integration system that connected the company’s internal API to their website through a REST API middleware layer.
The system received webhook notifications when pricing data changed, scheduled an update within 5 minutes, stored it in optimized database tables, and exposed it through public endpoints for front-end consumption.
This architecture allowed the website to serve thousands of requests without directly querying the internal API, while maintaining data accuracy and security.
Technical Implementation
- Webhook-triggered data synchronization that received notifications from the internal API and scheduled updates within 5 minutes of pricing changes.
- Custom database schema optimized for fast queries across products, pricing history, and asset metadata.
- Public REST API endpoints that served product lists, individual product data, and historical pricing with date range filtering.
- Built-in caching system that reduced database load and improved response times for frequently accessed data.
- Interactive chart widgets for Elementor that displayed historical performance and premium/discount trends.
- WordPress shortcodes for displaying fund components and current NAV dates within page content.
- CSV export functionality that generated downloadable files for offline analysis and reporting.
- WP-CLI commands for administrators to manually trigger updates and regenerate data when needed.
- Comprehensive audit logging that tracked all API interactions for compliance and troubleshooting.
- Multi-environment support with separate configurations for development, staging, and production deployments.
- Swagger documentation provided interactive API documentation for developers building integrations.
Results
The website automatically displayed up-to-date pricing information for multiple cryptocurrency trusts without manual intervention.
The public API served data to thousands of visitors, while caching and database optimization kept page load times fast.
Administrators could monitor all data synchronization through audit logs and manually trigger updates when time-sensitive announcements required immediate data refreshes.
The flexible architecture supported both single-asset and diversified fund products, with the ability to add new products without requiring code changes.