Prices/Charts

General

Name
Coinmarketcap

Based in
USA

Founded
2013

API

Currencies

Coins
13'670

Exchanges
427

Pricing

Fees
Free

Versions

Desktop

Web

Android

iPhone

Coinmarketcap

Founded in May 2013 by Brandon Chez, Coinmarketcap.com was bought by Binance Capital Management in April 2020 and remains the world’s most referenced price tracking website for crypto assets. Its mission statement is ‘to make crypto discoverable and globally efficient by empowering retail users with high quality unbiased and accurate information to enable them to draw their own conclusions.

Pros

  • World's most-referenced price-tracking website for cryptoassets

Cons

  • Not independant anymore, due to Binance acquisition

Features (Coins, Charts, Exchanges, DeFi, NFTs, Portfolio, Tools, Watchlist)

Coinmarketcap.com provides visitors with an enormous wealth of resource data in a large variety of areas. Data is then broken further into component parts for example DeFi and NFT or specific eco-systems like Solana or Polkadot. The main areas of focus are coin price, market breakdown, exchange volume and learning resources however users are able to customize the front page to their own particular liking.

Where do they get the Data from?

Since acquisition Coinmarketcap.com has used Binance as a regular source of data and information which it hopes will will reduce data asymmetry in the marketplace. Data is also aggregated from the vast swathe of sources the website supports.

API

Coinmarketcap provide an API to enable enterprises to access market data, run computational models and back-test market strategies.

Mobile Apps

Coinmarketcap is available as a mobile app via Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Conclusion

Coinmarketcap.com is, in many peoples eyes, the go-to place for every piece of reference data required in the modern crypto currency market. This huge resource offers the users practically everything they need to know about the market and is the first port of call on a daily basis. Although the front page can appear a little messy at first, the user is able to customise it to their satisfaction. Overall, Coinmarketcap.com is still the cryptocurrency market’s premier data reference site.