OPEN has created a blockchain agnostic platform with a comprehensive API structured to specifically create ease of access and integration into pre-existing application infrastructure. The OPEN API abstracts away the complexities of the OPEN platform’s decentralized architecture by introducing an application layer developers can connect to with their existing codebases. This makes it easy for a developer to switch out centralized functions, like a payment gateway or a hosting environment, for functions that utilize OPEN’s decentralized application platform. At the moment, the functionality that OPEN seeks to provide with its platform and API primarily deals with payment gateways. The OPEN API will leverage functionalities already present in external libraries like web3.js and ETHJS to develop a secure way to interact with the blockchain. With this implementation, OPEN will unlock the potential within blockchain technology in order to fundamentally alter the way applications are built, hosted, trusted and monetized.