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diff --git a/src/__tests__/spreads.test.ts b/src/__tests__/spreads.test.ts
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+++ b/src/__tests__/spreads.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from 'vitest'
+import Fastify from 'fastify'
+
+const { mockQuery } = vi.hoisted(() => ({ mockQuery: vi.fn() }))
+
+vi.mock('../db', () => ({ pgPool: { query: mockQuery } }))
+vi.mock('../config', () => ({ activeNetwork: 'testnet' }))
+
+import { registerSpreadsRoutes } from '../routes/spreads'
+
+async function buildApp() {
+  const app = Fastify({ logger: false })
+  await registerSpreadsRoutes(app)
+  await app.ready()
+  return app
+}
+
+/** One grouped row as the query returns it. */
+function row(source: string, pairKey: string, bid: string, ask: string, observations = 10) {
+  return {
+    source,
+    pair_key: pairKey,
+    bid,
+    ask,
+    observations,
+    last_seen: new Date('2026-09-01T12:00:00.000Z'),
+  }
+}
+
+describe('GET /spreads/:asset', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockQuery.mockReset()
+  })
+
+  it('computes basis points against the mid, not the ask', async () => {
+    // bid 99, ask 101 → mid 100, range 2 → exactly 200 bps.
+    // Against the ask it would be 198.02 bps, which is the common mistake:
+    // it makes the figure depend on which side you divided by, so two venues
+    // quoting the same absolute range would score differently.
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({ rows: [row('sdex', 'XLM/USDC', '99', '101')] })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })).json()
+
+    expect(body.venues).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(body.venues[0].spreadBps).toBeCloseTo(200, 6)
+    expect(body.venues[0].mid).toBe(100)
+  })
+
+  it('groups by venue AND pair, because two pairs on one venue are different books', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({
+      rows: [row('sdex', 'XLM/USDC', '0.99', '1.01'), row('sdex', 'XLM/EURC', '0.90', '0.92')],
+    })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })).json()
+
+    // Collapsing these to one "sdex spread" would take min 0.90 / max 1.01
+    // across two unrelated price scales and call the gap a spread.
+    expect(body.venues).toHaveLength(2)
+    expect(body.venues.map((v: any) => v.pairKey).sort()).toEqual(['XLM/EURC', 'XLM/USDC'])
+  })
+
+  it('reports the tightest venue first and as `tightest`', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({
+      rows: [
+        row('wide', 'XLM/USDC', '90', '110'),   // 2000 bps
+        row('tight', 'XLM/USDC', '99.9', '100.1'), // 20 bps
+      ],
+    })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })).json()
+
+    expect(body.venues[0].venue).toBe('tight')
+    expect(body.tightest.venue).toBe('tight')
+    expect(body.tightest.spreadBps).toBeLessThan(body.venues[1].spreadBps)
+  })
+
+  it('ignores a venue with a single observation, which would fake a 0 bps spread', async () => {
+    // A lone print has a zero range by construction, so it would win "tightest"
+    // against every genuinely liquid venue. One observation is not evidence.
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({
+      rows: [
+        row('lonely', 'XLM/USDC', '100', '100', 1),
+        row('real', 'XLM/USDC', '99', '101', 40),
+      ],
+    })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })).json()
+
+    expect(body.venues.map((v: any) => v.venue)).toEqual(['real'])
+    expect(body.tightest.venue).toBe('real')
+  })
+
+  it('returns tightest: null when nothing quoted the asset', async () => {
+    // Distinct from a zero spread — an empty object would read as "free to trade".
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({ rows: [] })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/NOPE' })).json()
+
+    expect(body.venues).toEqual([])
+    expect(body.tightest).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('scopes the query to one network, so two chains are never pooled', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({ rows: [] })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM?network=mainnet' })
+
+    const [, params] = mockQuery.mock.calls[0]
+    expect(params[1]).toBe('mainnet')
+    expect(mockQuery.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatch(/network = \$2/)
+  })
+
+  it('defaults to the active network rather than querying across both', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({ rows: [] })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const body = (await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })).json()
+
+    expect(body.network).toBe('testnet')
+    expect(mockQuery.mock.calls[0][1][1]).toBe('testnet')
+  })
+
+  it('rejects an unknown network instead of silently falling back', async () => {
+    const app = await buildApp()
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM?network=futurenet' })
+
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(400)
+    expect(mockQuery).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('rejects an unsupported window and names the valid ones', async () => {
+    const app = await buildApp()
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM?window=7y' })
+
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(400)
+    expect(res.json().error).toMatch(/5m/)
+    expect(mockQuery).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('narrows the lookback window as requested', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockResolvedValue({ rows: [] })
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM?window=5m' })
+    const fiveMin = mockQuery.mock.calls[0][1][2] as Date
+    mockQuery.mockClear()
+
+    await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM?window=1h' })
+    const oneHour = mockQuery.mock.calls[0][1][2] as Date
+
+    expect(oneHour.getTime()).toBeLessThan(fiveMin.getTime())
+  })
+
+  it('answers 500 with a message rather than throwing when the query fails', async () => {
+    mockQuery.mockRejectedValue(new Error('connection refused'))
+    const app = await buildApp()
+
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/spreads/XLM' })
+
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(500)
+    expect(res.json().error).toMatch(/connection refused/)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
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--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { registerUsageRoutes } from './api/usage'
 import { registerFacilitatorRoutes } from './api/facilitator'
 import { registerPriceRoutes } from './routes/price'
 import { registerVolumeRoutes } from './routes/volumes'
+import { registerSpreadsRoutes } from './routes/spreads'
 import { registerBenchmarkRoutes } from './routes/benchmark'
 import { registerOracleRoutes } from './routes/oracle'
 import { registerBasketRoutes } from './routes/basket'
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ async function main() {
   await registerHistoryRoutes(app)
   await registerPriceRoutes(app)
   await registerVolumeRoutes(app)
+  await registerSpreadsRoutes(app)
   await registerBenchmarkRoutes(app)
   await registerOracleRoutes(app)
   await registerBasketRoutes(app)
diff --git a/src/routes/spreads.ts b/src/routes/spreads.ts
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+import type { FastifyInstance } from 'fastify'
+import { pgPool } from '../db'
+import { activeNetwork, type NetworkName } from '../config'
+
+// Supported windows → lookback in minutes. A spread is a statement about *now*,
+// so these are deliberately short: widen the window far enough and you stop
+// measuring liquidity and start measuring the day's price drift.
+const WINDOW_MINUTES = {
+  '5m': 5,
+  '15m': 15,
+  '1h': 60,
+  '24h': 60 * 24,
+} as const
+
+type SpreadWindow = keyof typeof WINDOW_MINUTES
+
+const WINDOWS = Object.keys(WINDOW_MINUTES) as SpreadWindow[]
+
+/** A venue needs at least this many observations before its spread means anything. */
+const MIN_OBSERVATIONS = 2
+
+interface VenueSpread {
+  venue: string
+  pairKey: string
+  bid: number
+  ask: number
+  mid: number
+  spreadBps: number
+  observations: number
+  lastSeen: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * Register the bid/ask spread endpoint.
+ *
+ * `GET /spreads/:asset?window=5m|15m|1h|24h&network=testnet|mainnet`
+ *
+ * Reports, for every (venue, pair) that quoted `asset` inside the window, the
+ * low, the high and the gap between them in basis points — then the tightest of
+ * them, which is the practical answer to "where should I trade this".
+ *
+ * ## What the numbers actually mean
+ *
+ * Lens stores one `price` per observation, not a quoted bid and ask. So a
+ * venue's spread here is the dispersion of its own recent prints — the range it
+ * traded through over the window — rather than a book's top-of-book gap. That
+ * is a real liquidity signal (a thin venue prints a wide range, a deep one
+ * prints a tight one) but it is **not** the number that venue's own order book
+ * would report, and it should not be presented as one.
+ *
+ * Basis points are taken against the **mid**, not against the ask:
+ *
+ *     spreadBps = (ask - bid) / ((ask + bid) / 2) * 10_000
+ *
+ * Dividing by the ask makes the figure depend on which side you divided by, so
+ * two venues quoting the same absolute range score differently. The mid is
+ * symmetric.
+ *
+ * ## Why the grouping is (venue, pair) and not venue
+ *
+ * XLM/USDC and XLM/EURC on the same venue are different books at different
+ * price scales. Collapsing them into one "venue spread" would take the min and
+ * max across two unrelated scales and report the gap between them — a number
+ * that is not merely imprecise but meaningless.
+ */
+export async function registerSpreadsRoutes(app: FastifyInstance) {
+  app.get<{
+    Params: { asset: string }
+    Querystring: { window?: string; network?: string }
+  }>('/spreads/:asset', async (req, reply) => {
+    const { asset } = req.params
+    const window = req.query.window ?? '5m'
+
+    if (!asset) {
+      return reply.status(400).send({ error: 'Asset parameter is required' })
+    }
+
+    if (!(window in WINDOW_MINUTES)) {
+      return reply
+        .status(400)
+        .send({ error: `window must be one of: ${WINDOWS.join(', ')}` })
+    }
+
+    // Prices from two chains are not comparable, and a spread computed across
+    // both is not a wide spread — it is a meaningless one. Default to this
+    // process's own network rather than silently pooling them.
+    const requested = req.query.network
+    if (requested !== undefined && requested !== 'testnet' && requested !== 'mainnet') {
+      return reply.status(400).send({ error: 'network must be one of: testnet, mainnet' })
+    }
+    const network: NetworkName = (requested as NetworkName) ?? activeNetwork
+
+    const minutes = WINDOW_MINUTES[window as SpreadWindow]
+    const endTime = new Date()
+    const startTime = new Date(endTime.getTime() - minutes * 60 * 1000)
+
+    try {
+      const { rows } = await pgPool.query(
+        `SELECT source,
+                pair_key,
+                MIN(price)::numeric   AS bid,
+                MAX(price)::numeric   AS ask,
+                COUNT(*)::int         AS observations,
+                MAX(timestamp)        AS last_seen
+           FROM price_points
+          WHERE (asset_a = $1 OR asset_b = $1)
+            AND network = $2
+            AND timestamp >= $3
+          GROUP BY source, pair_key`,
+        [asset, network, startTime],
+      )
+
+      const venues: VenueSpread[] = []
+
+      for (const row of rows) {
+        const bid = parseFloat(row.bid)
+        const ask = parseFloat(row.ask)
+        const observations = Number(row.observations) || 0
+
+        // A single print has a zero range by construction, which would report a
+        // perfect 0 bps spread and beat every real venue for "tightest". One
+        // observation is not evidence of liquidity.
+        if (observations < MIN_OBSERVATIONS) continue
+        if (!Number.isFinite(bid) || !Number.isFinite(ask)) continue
+
+        const mid = (ask + bid) / 2
+        if (mid <= 0) continue
+
+        venues.push({
+          venue: row.source,
+          pairKey: row.pair_key,
+          bid,
+          ask,
+          mid,
+          spreadBps: ((ask - bid) / mid) * 10_000,
+          observations,
+          lastSeen: new Date(row.last_seen).toISOString(),
+        })
+      }
+
+      venues.sort((a, b) => a.spreadBps - b.spreadBps)
+
+      return {
+        asset,
+        network,
+        window,
+        startTime: startTime.toISOString(),
+        endTime: endTime.toISOString(),
+        // Per venue-and-pair, tightest first.
+        venues,
+        // The tightest quote available anywhere in the window, or null when no
+        // venue quoted this asset. Null rather than a zeroed object: "nobody
+        // quoted it" and "the spread is zero" must not look alike.
+        tightest: venues[0] ?? null,
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      return reply
+        .status(500)
+        .send({ error: `Spread aggregation failed: ${(err as Error).message}` })
+    }
+  })
+}
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