As detailed in @utopian-io’s announcement earlier today, CoinGecko is proud to announce that we are now part of Utopian’s Very Important Project Owners (VIPO) club. We are excited to be collaborating with Utopian, the world’s first blockchain platform that rewards open-source contributions.
Our vision is to democratize access to cryptocurrency data. We believe in greater transparency and increasing information accessibility in the blockchain space. To make it easy for anyone to get started with cryptocurrency projects, we have released a free-to-use API.
At CoinGecko, we currently collect data from more than 230 cryptocurrency exchanges. Every day, we receive requests to add new exchanges into our data aggregator on a daily basis. To ease that process, we have built an internal Ruby library called Cryptoexchange which enables us to connect to the many cryptocurrency exchanges using a single interface. While that has benefited us in terms of running our service, we have decided to take the idea of openness and transparency one step further by open-sourcing our library. This allows anyone to easily access public data from different exchanges in a unified way.
While the library codebase is stable and open to use, there are always features to add and bugs to fix. We have been relying on volunteers from around the world along with our in-house developers to contribute to the project via Github. When we stumbled upon @utopian-io and understood their mission, we were fascinated at how we could utilize the token economy to sustain our ongoing open-source project.
We will be posting more information on our tasks requests very soon and we look forward to working with @utopian-io and engaging further with the volunteers.
It's our pleasure to have such relevant initiative in our VIPO. We'll make sure to support CoinGecko in all the necessary steps to bring contributors, engagement and exposure to this awesome project, on Utopian and beyond.
A warm welcome on behalf of everyone in Utopian!
Awesome to have such a relevant project in the space here!
I’ve been too busy tending to my new little guy to notice your all’s arrival but I’m glad you’re here.
I hope this place changes your company/project positively as it has changed my life.
You’ll be hard pressed to find a better place.
I wish you luck and great success.
Not too long ago you were welcomed as Steemians. Now, welcome to Utopian's Open Source VIPO!
Thanks for reaching out to Utopian. Really glad to see this partnership and opening up CoinGecko to the many contributors at Utopian.
I'm still learning Python and dabbled a little bit on Ruby. Doesn't hurt to refresh on Ruby. I hope to one day contribute to your GitHub task requests and bug hunting.
And lastly, thank you for the free-to-use API. It is very much appreciated.
Free free to use our API and would love to see what projects you end up making with it! It's a great way to learn programming :)
We are all so glad you are here. We need collaborations with great teams like you have. Hopefully all the accounts on steemit will recognize the significance of this event, start using your services and check out Utopian.
I wonder if you guys will consider becoming an exchange. We need many more exchanges to bring the exchange prices down and quality of services up.
Edit: Gecko coin could be your SMT That could fund you for a while.
We have no plans to be an exchange for the time being and want to focus on providing good data.
Can I seed this idea?
A creation of a centralized exchange with STEEM and SBD as the common trading pairs can be a massive source of revenue. Competition won't be an issue as there would be a huge flood of support from users here that would use the exchange. This is especially so since most other exchanges fail to keep their STEEM wallets functioning for weeks or months at a time. Most major exchanges have created their own coin to be a common trading pair. It takes a significant amount of time for that coin to catch on. If a centralized exchange is created that puts STEEM and SBD as common trading pairs, there will be no waiting time for the currency to gain popularity.
The STEEM and SBD trading pairs with everything else is a massive untapped market that would generate a flood of users. Both for STEEM and the new Exchange. Compared to other new exchanges with respect to competition, a STEEM supported exchange will be the easiest and quickest way an exchange can gain legs.
If you ever consider opening an exchange, please consider STEEM and SBD as common trading pairs to everything else.
a Exchange on / with Steem is a really good idea. Maybe with SBD as the Dollar pair.
I have followed @coingecko since its inception (i.e. I am involved to cryptos since 2013). I used to love its coin evaluation based on fundamentals rather than the marketcap.
It is nice to see @coingecko finally in Steemit.
However, it is sad to see #steem scoring 45% in community. In fact, STEEM is perhaps the most social or community coin out there if not other than BTC. Steemit in fact outranked bitcointalk.org, the de-facto social media presence, couple of times.
It would be great if @coingecko factor into 1.2M strong STEEM community in its community score.
Also, can't wait to see a @coingecko SMT token in near future :)
Very nice, this is a great cooperation!
Coingecko is always good than other sites.
Where it will show all details including ATH in one single page.
Good post.
Coingecko is my go-to website for collecting all crypto related information.
ITS OFFICIAL!!! :)
@coingecko and @utopian-io FTW! 🙌🏻
Good to have you guys collaborating with the biggest open source supporter. Utopian.io will keep supporting more awesome opensource projects around the world.
@coingecko, Congratulations and good wishes from my side. And in my opinion it's really important to see the Ranking Economy because in that way everyone can hold an idea of Performance in this Tokenise world. Hope and wish that you will going to attain the effective growth in your vision.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed team. 🙂
Well done!
Thats awesome! This cooperation will certainly be very productive!
Looking forward to see the fruits of this collaboration. I see only positives for both sides!
Welcome, guys! Amazing to have you here!
that's good to know @coingecko.
Hey, I'm a big fan of you. hehe.
a lot of writing about wallpaper design, I took the source on coingecko. :)
Nice. now I can write the source with coingecko steem account. :)
It is great to see such a big project join Utopian!
Welcome let's go on this open source journey together
Glad to see projects hopping onto the steem blockchain! Welcome! I will check out your contest soon :-D
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Glad to receive awesome project like coingecko, welcome guys :))
Welcome to Steem!
Welcome to the family 😊
Realy nice . I use coingecko often and i like the page .
Great to see you involved in the community so soon after starting! This will be great as the ecosystem will benefit from the continued development of technology within the ecosystem.
You really see the hard work, the progress that is constantly.
I'm glad to see you guys on Steem, welcome!
Coingecko was first site which I was visiting when I started learning about crypto world :)
buena iniciativa amigo
Very happy to see our community growing! Welcome @coingecko :)
Glad to know this project. Hoping to see good results of this collaboration!
Awesome!!! coingecko is always my best place to check price ever.
Good job!
Welcome guys ;)
Great move @coingecko. Welcome on Board!
This is great news, indeed! Great team to collaborate.
alright..been using coingecko for a while...
coingecko is new cryptocurrency ?
Congratulations @coingecko!
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Welcome! Love what you guys are doing with coingecko.com! The detailed charts and info is of amazing benefit to crypto analysts and enthusiasts.
The is a good step forward.
Great post
wow, this is great news!
Indeed, lots of crypto was been listed in coingecko and earn a respect for that.
I do used coingecko for getting live price updates and conversion!
wow this is good and very nice news