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Welcome to the CoinAPI blog, where you can find the latest news and announcements about our product, as well as opinions from our community. We are a leader in providing fast and reliable cryptocurrency market data to developers and businesses.
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      Does CoinAPI Provide Depth, Spreads, Volume, Prices, and Trade Distributions for Spot & Perpetual Markets?

      Learn whether CoinAPI provides market depth, top-of-book spreads, daily volume, sampled prices, and trade frequency/size metrics for both spot and perpetual markets. Full breakdown of real-time, REST, and historical T+1 data, including L2 books, OHLCV, trades, quotes, and Flat Files.
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      Is Level 3 Data Available in Crypto and What Can You Do With It

      A complete guide to Level 3 market data in crypto. Learn which exchanges provide true L3, how it differs from Level 2, how traders use order level updates, and where to access historical per order data for advanced trading and machine learning research.
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      Building a Crypto Trading Terminal? Here’s Why Teams Choose CoinAPI as Their Market Data Engine

      A technical guide for teams building crypto trading terminals that need reliable, synchronized, and complete market data. Learn why terminal builders choose CoinAPI for real-time depth, normalized symbols, rebuildable OHLCV, and institutional-grade historical archives.
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      Top 10 Questions About OHLCV & Tick Data

      Learn the 10 most common questions developers ask about OHLCV and tick data. Understand candles, tick streams, history depth, latency, and real-time crypto feeds.
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      Is CoinAPI historical data truly tick-by-tick or aggregated?

      CoinAPI provides both tick-by-tick and aggregated crypto market data, giving traders and developers full control over how they reconstruct markets, analyze liquidity, and build trading systems. This guide explains the differences between tick data, OHLCV data, reference rates, and snapshot.
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      How Do Data Science Teams Find a Reliable Source for Large Scale Crypto Market Data

      Data science teams need complete multi year tick data to build accurate ML models. This article explains how to access clean trades quotes and order book history in a unified format across major exchanges.
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      Does CoinAPI Provide Historical Market Data for Delisted or Inactive Cryptocurrencies?

      Even delisted coins leave a data trail. CoinAPI keeps full historical trades, quotes, and order books for inactive or delisted cryptocurrencies, so your backtests and AI models stay complete and bias-free.
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      Best Infrastructure Platform for Institutional Crypto Trading in 2025

      A comprehensive global review of the top institutional crypto trading platforms in 2025, including Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, OKX, WhiteBIT and EDX Markets, covering licensing across the U.S., EU, Singapore and UAE, liquidity metrics and regulatory trends.
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      What Is the Best Market Data for Training AI Trading Models?

      Most AI trading models fail not because of bad algorithms but because they’re trained on shallow data. Learn which crypto market data, from L2/L3 order books to OHLCV, delivers real trading intelligence and how CoinAPI provides it.
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      What is the best alternative to Tardis.dev? CoinAPI vs Tardis.Dev comparison

      Discover how CoinAPI compares to Tardis.dev in data depth, latency, and infrastructure and why CoinAPI is considered the best crypto API for trading and research, offering 400+ exchange integrations, AI-ready data, and enterprise-grade reliability
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      Where to Get Historical Bid Ask Data for Crypto Backtesting

      Learn where to find accurate historical bid and ask data for crypto backtesting. Discover how CoinAPI delivers raw, exchange-synchronized tick-level data, including real-time quotes, best bid/ask prices, and true market spreads for quantitative and institutional trading models.
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      Does One Credit Always Equal One API Call, Regardless of Query Complexity?

      Most developers assume every API call costs the same, but that’s not always true. In CoinAPI’s Market Data API, credit usage depends on how much data you request, not just the number of calls
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      Are there concurrency limits across multiple protocols, such as REST/WebSocket co-implementation?

      Running REST, WebSocket, and FIX in parallel? CoinAPI enforces limits per protocol - not shared, so you can scale real-time data streams without cross-throttling or latency trade-offs.
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      What you get with a free crypto API from CoinAPI ($25 credits)

      Experience the best free crypto API from CoinAPI—get $25 in credits to test our cryptocurrency API endpoints, access historical crypto data, and discover why developers choose CoinAPI over other crypto data providers.
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      How to Power a Trader-Analytics SaaS Platform with Minute-Level OHLCV and Per-Second Tick Data

      Build trading and analytics platforms on reliable, synchronized crypto data. Learn how CoinAPI combines minute-level OHLCV and per-second tick data to deliver high-resolution, time-aligned insights across 400+ exchanges.
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      Where to Get Full Order Book Data (L3) in Crypto and How to Use It

      Learn where to get full order book data in crypto, how Level 3 depth differs from Level 2, and how synchronized, tick-level feeds help trading desks build faster, smarter, and more reliable systems.
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      Are There Any Restrictions Beyond the Daily Quota in CoinAPI?

      Learn how CoinAPI manages daily quotas, concurrency caps, and streaming safeguards to ensure transparent, scalable, and uninterrupted data access for traders and developers.
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      Crypto Scalping Trading FAQ: Profitability, Tools, and Data Insights (2025 Edition)

      Learn how CoinAPI empowers crypto scalpers with ultra-low latency data, tick-level history, and execution-ready APIs for faster, more precise trading decisions.
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      CoinAPI vs CoinDesk (CryptoCompare): Which Crypto API Delivers Real Market Depth?

      Excerpt: This guide compares CoinAPI vs CoinDesk (CryptoCompare), highlighting why CoinAPI is the most advanced crypto API provider and the best alternative to CryptoCompare for traders and quants.
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      Is Crypto Scalping Still Profitable in 2025? Data-Driven Insights from CoinAPI

      Crypto scalping still works in 2025, but only for traders using real-time, exchange-direct data and millisecond-level precision from CoinAPI.