Portals Dev Update: April Edition

GM builders, here's what's new and coming up with the Portals API, straight from this month's Portals all-hands meeting, delivered to you in this Portals Dev update, April Edition.

📈 Growth, Usage & Reach

Our infrastructure continues to scale rapidly, with platform velocity increasing significantly.

This rapid integration capability is powered by our new agentic workflows, which automate the heavy lifting of protocol discovery and metadata enrichment.

On the integration front, we are actively onboarding over 20 new teams into our ecosystem. This includes significant players like Propy (managing $100M+ in TVL) and various treasury protocols.

🏗️ Recent Releases

Portals Foresight Simulation API is Live

Portals Foresight is now officially live as a standalone, premium simulation and tracing API. We have decoupled this from our core data API to reflect its advanced capabilities and distinct infrastructure requirements.

It executes calldata against a fresh fork of live state, automatically handling balance injections and token approvals. The API returns structured results including token amounts, NFT positions, gas costs, and human-readable reverts.

A major addition is the new tracer mode, which decodes ABIs inline, providing developers with an unparalleled, granular view into transaction execution.

This makes it significantly more powerful than existing tools like Tenderly for DeFi-specific debugging. You can see it in action by checking out live Foresight Trace.

Developers can start building immediately with 1,000 free simulations per month.

V3 Transactions Endpoint & Infinite Scroll

We have shipped the new V3 transactions endpoint to production. This upgrade provides comprehensive historical data tracking, specifically capturing mints and burns with high accuracy across all supported positions (including complex Morpho vaults and Ether.fi).

Previously, transaction history was limited to a 24-hour window. The new endpoint supports infinite scrolling, allowing integrators to fetch transaction data going back days or weeks.

This is powered by a generalized indexing service that watches and captures every mint and burn on-chain in real-time, providing a level of data granularity rarely seen in other yield or DEX dashboards.

Explorer Search & Trending Algorithm Overhaul

We have completely overhauled the trending score algorithm on the Portals Explorer. Previously, the system rewarded absolute volume, meaning protocols with massive net outflows (e.g., a protocol losing $282M in TVL) would dominate the trending section.

The new algorithm utilizes Z-scores and Wilson scores to calculate true momentum. By comparing today's inflows against a 30-day historical baseline. The API now surfaces genuinely interesting, high-growth yield opportunities, even smaller vaults like Harvest Finance, rather than just ranking large incumbents.

Materialized Views & Lending Filters

We have updated our backend materialized views. Integrators can now pass an exclude_lending parameter to filter out lending protocols entirely. This provides a much cleaner view of LSDs, LRTs, and RWA vaults without the noise of standard lending markets.

🔜 Coming Soon

V3 Portal & Cross-Chain Router Integration

Our swap and zap endpoints are currently undergoing a massive overhaul. We are completely rebuilding the swapper interface and underlying logic to integrate seamlessly with our custom cross-chain router and the new V3 endpoints.

This overhaul utilizes Portals Foresight under the hood to fully simulate all transactions.

Developers will receive highly accurate outputs, including exact token transfers and gas costs, without requiring prior balances or approvals. This single-endpoint solution will drastically improve the developer experience for building complex execution flows.

Plasma Support

We are actively working on adding support for Plasma. This integration will expand our network coverage and provide developers with access to Plasma's unique yield opportunities and infrastructure directly through the Portals API.

We are committed to empowering our developer community with the tools and resources needed to succeed. Everything we ship is designed to give your users an edge in DeFi.

About Portals: Portals is the DeFi Super App. A one-click gateway to the entire on-chain economy. Powered by real-time data and seamless execution, Portals.fi connects traders to over 20 million assets, thousands of protocols, and every major blockchain.