# About AssetPay

AssetPay is a B2B payment gateway for **CS2 and Rust skin trading**. Marketplaces,
gaming sites and stores use it to take skins as payment without running the
trading operation themselves. It's whitelabel, so your users only ever see your
brand. We handle the trading, custody and accounting behind it.

## The problem we solve

Accepting a skin is nothing like accepting a card. The trade has to be proposed
and confirmed through Steam. The item has to be priced against a market that
moves all day. And the exchange can fail outright, or be reversed afterwards, if
it isn't handled carefully.

So most teams who want skin payments end up building the machinery first: a fleet
of Steam bots, a pricing feed, a ledger, fraud checks, payout logic. That is
months of work before a single trade clears, on infrastructure that isn't the
product they set out to build.

We built that layer once and put an API on it. You integrate one gateway and
treat skins the way you already treat every other payment method.

## How it works

- **Steam-authenticated deposits.** Users sign in through Steam and send items to
  trade infrastructure we operate. We verify ownership and trade eligibility
  before crediting anything, so you never accept an item that can't actually be
  delivered.
- **Pricing at trade time.** Every skin is valued against live market data
  (Buff-anchored) at the moment of the deposit, not at page load.
- **A double-entry ledger.** Deposits, settlements and payouts each land as two
  matching entries. Balances check themselves, and months later you can still
  reconstruct which item was credited, at what value, and when.
- **Signed webhooks.** Every state change reaches your backend as a signed event,
  so your server can confirm it genuinely came from us before acting on it.
- **Scoped API keys.** Each merchant environment reaches only the operations and
  data it needs.

## Security and accounting

Skins are real money, and the system is built to account for every unit of it.
Double-entry bookkeeping means a balance is never just a running total someone
has to trust; the two sides have to agree, or something is wrong and you find out
immediately. Webhook payloads are signed, so a forged callback can't credit
anyone. Deposits are validated against Steam before they touch your books, which
keeps failed and reversed trades off them entirely.

## Who it's for

We build for the teams running the platforms rather than for individual traders.
If you operate a marketplace, a gaming or gambling site, or a store, and you want
to take CS2 or Rust skins as payment without becoming a trading desk in the
process, AssetPay is the layer between your product and the mechanics of Steam.

## Get in touch

Want to integrate AssetPay or talk through a use case? Reach our team at
[support@assetpay.gg](mailto:support@assetpay.gg).