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Crypto Investing

Build better investment experiences with trusted crypto market data

Help investors evaluate opportunities, measure performance, and make informed investment decisions using accurate market data, benchmark indexes, and historical market insights.

What is Crypto Investing?

Crypto investing is the process of buying and holding digital assets with the goal of growing capital over time.

Investors analyze market performance, compare assets, monitor risk, and evaluate long-term trends before making investment decisions. Successful investing depends on understanding how assets perform individually and relative to the broader market.

Your Challenge

Finding investment opportunities is only part of the process.

Investors also need to understand how assets have performed over time, compare them against market benchmarks, and monitor portfolios across multiple exchanges and currencies. Without consistent market data and reliable benchmarks, it becomes difficult to evaluate performance or make informed investment decisions.

Biggest Pain Points

  • Comparing investment opportunities across hundreds of crypto assets
  • Evaluating long-term market performance
  • Measuring portfolio performance against market benchmarks
  • Understanding market volatility before investing
  • Tracking assets listed on multiple exchanges
  • Viewing investments in different reporting currencies
  • Following rapidly changing market conditions
  • Supporting investment research with reliable historical data
  • Expanding market coverage as new assets emerge
  • Building trustworthy investment analytics

How CoinAPI Solves These Challenges

Compare Assets Across the Entire Market

Analyze normalized market data from hundreds of exchanges, making it easier to evaluate investment opportunities without reconciling different pricing sources.

Benchmark Every Investment

Compare portfolios and individual assets against CoinAPI's VWAP, PRIMKT, and CAPIVIX indexes to measure market performance, evaluate returns, and better understand market volatility.

Track Portfolio Values in Any Currency

Use the Exchange Rates API to calculate portfolio values and investment returns in the reporting currency that best fits your users or business.

Study Long-Term Market Cycles

Access years of historical prices, trades, and OHLCV data to analyze market cycles, identify trends, and support long-term investment research.

Expand Investment Coverage

Support new assets and exchanges through one standardized market data infrastructure instead of maintaining separate integrations as your investment platform grows.

What Changes After Implementing CoinAPI?

What You NeedBefore CoinAPIAfter CoinAPI
Compare investment opportunitiesAggregate prices from multiple exchanges manuallyAnalyze normalized market data across hundreds of exchanges
Benchmark portfolio performanceBuild custom benchmarks and reference pricesCompare investments using CoinAPI VWAP, PRIMKT, and CAPIVIX indexes
Track investments globallyMaintain separate currency conversion logicValue portfolios using the Exchange Rates API
Analyze long-term performanceLimited historical market visibilityAccess years of historical market data through APIs and Flat Files
Expand investment coverageIntegrate every exchange individuallySupport more markets through one standardized API
Build investment analyticsCombine disconnected market data sourcesCreate dashboards and research tools using one normalized market data platform

Who Uses This?

Investment Platforms
Asset Manager
Financial Advisors
Family Offices
Institutional Investors
Fintech Companies