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**Welcome to Carbon!** You can use our REST JSON API to access Carbon endpoints, which can buy, sell and swap any cryptocurrency.

If you are not familiar with Carbon, you can explore our documentation.

- Buying cryptocurrencies using [3D Secure credit/debit card payments](/content/docs/3d-secure-card-payments/index.html)
- How to [sell cryptocurrencies for fiat](/content/docs/supported-fiat-withdrawal-payment-methods/index.html)
- How to [swap cryptocurrencies easily](/content/docs/crypto-overview/index.html)
- How to create an account and [authenticate](/content/docs/authentication/index.html) API requests as a superuser
- How to create, authenticate, and manage [contacts](/content/docs-sub/docs/contacts/index.html) under your account and have them go through KYC/AML
- [Managing your transactions through our pipes](/content/docs/webhooks/index.html)
- Using Carbon's API as a [payment gateway](/content/docs/create-merchant/index.html) for merchants
- Interacting with our legacy API (ACH/wires) for [CarbonUSD](/content/docs-sub/docs/stablecoin/index.html), our fiat-backed stablecoin
- Access high-quality crypto market data via our [price feed API](/content/docs-sub/docs/pricefeed-api/index.html)

### What's Next

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| [Terminology](/content/docs/terminology/index.html) |