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Top 5 cryptocurrency APIs for developers ©️

Maria 🍦 Marshmallow on January 07, 2023

Since the creation of a Bitcoin in 2009, interest in cryptocurrencies has increased drastically and now gained its highest popularity. Now, many cr...
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ImTheDeveloper

We have a nice community on telegram for those js Devs interested in working with many of the exchange APIs t.me/nodetraders

You may also find moralis useful, I've been testing their events and webhooks it's really good moralis.io/

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Thanks for your advice! This website you're referring to, moralis, is actually a great source👍🏻

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Merc Opolo

Thanks for the article and this cool list. Looking forward to building my future projects with them.

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Thank you, Merc😊

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Bangy Slower

Nice list! I’ve used several of these in the past and they’re great!

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

I'm happy to hear that!

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alessioferrine

Great post!
You can also try ByBit API

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Thanks! I'll check it👌🏻

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Sarah Price

Thanks for sharing! I've been looking into cryptocurrencies more lately even with the crypto crash and everything that's happened recently. I'll have to look into more about using these for projects.

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

I'm glad that You found this post helpful☺️

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Obasi Nwosu

In your experience, what are the most important considerations when choosing a cryptocurrency API to use in a project?

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

It depends on what goals you want to achieve. These platforms' APIs have some similar functionality, but differ in request limits, API types, supported coins, and more.
When compiling this list, I focused on my personal preferences and used the most popular exchanges and analytical services that I use on an ongoing basis.
If I continued this list, I would also add an explorers API such as a universal blockchair.com, or specialized etherscan, polygonscan, etc.

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Fyodor

I wanted to ask the same actually, @mariamarsh. Also what are some examples of things folks build with the APIs from this list?

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow • Edited

Here are some pages where you can see examples of using different APIs:
portfolio tracker CoinStats - Binance API Key;
Money Button, Nexo.io, CryptoTax, CoinFi - And this is only from the Coinmarketcap API main page, because it's the most-referenced analytical service;
The same with CoinGecko.

Examples of using other APIs:
blockchair explorer;
NFTScan explorer.

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Obasi Nwosu

Nice article. I also think CryptoControl API is very important, especially for data analysis. what do you think?

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

To be honest, this is the first time I hear about this platform. And given that their site is down, I wouldn't trust this API.