Hello Steem! CoinGecko is here! 👋👋

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Hi Steem Community!

We are CoinGecko, the 360° cryptocurrency data aggregator that ranks digital currencies by trading volume, market capitalization, developer and community activity. We are one of the earliest and largest cryptocurrency ranking websites in the world having established ourselves since April 2014. We now track close to 3,000 coins from over 200 crypto exchanges and serve on average around 15 million monthly pageviews to users globally.

Our vision is to democratize access to cryptocurrency data and we want to improve crypto data transparency. We foresee a decentralized future where financial markets are open and we see ourselves playing a role as one of the best crypto data provider in the market.

We hope you are happily using CoinGecko to check on Steem price; in case you run your own website, hopefully you have been embedding our Steem price widget too!


Snapshot of our steem price widget


If you have been using CoinGecko and have been keeping an eye on us, you would know that we have not been the most vocal cryptocurrency company. It is not because we are being deliberately secretive but we have been hard at work trying to evolve and keep up with all the rapid changes happening in the crypto space. At CoinGecko, we strive to be the best in what we do and have been focusing on developing a great platform which is informative and beneficial to our users. There is a lot of work that has gone into aggregating all these information in real time and there is a lot more information and data that we strive to collect and aggregate with CoinGecko.

Why are we on Steem?

As part of our strategy to connect more closely with our users, we are moving to establish CoinGecko on Steem to collect more feedback from our users to better improve our product offerings.

We have been observing the growth of the Steem community for many years and are impressed with the way this community has grown. This post is the first of the many steps that we plan to take in Steem and we would like to get your support to continue our journey as we learn more.

We feel that there is a lot of potential for Steem and we would like to play a role as Steem develops further.

Capitalizing on Steem's Community

The Steem blockchain is built with an interesting token economy where community members are incentivized and rewarded for content creation. We have been creating content for many years and would also now like to take the next step and publish some of our content on Steem. We would like to witness first hand how this content incentivization works and how we can collaborate with the Steem community to educate more users on blockchain technology.

Currently, as you can verify for yourselves, we have staked our account with some amount of Steem Power. We intend to fully utilize the voting power granted from this stake to reward Steem community members who leave their thoughts about us. (Psst, Steemians, hope you get the hint 😉😉)

As a Start

Right off the bat, we hope to read what you have to say about CoinGecko as a whole. Please share your comments, reviews, thoughts, suggestions, and even pain points if there's any. All feedback is valuable to us and we appreciate it. You are free to leave them as comments and posts on Steemit.com or any other Steem Dapps. Even videos, podcast, photos and even memes on any of the growing list of independent Steem Dapps are accepted. To make it easier for us to find your content, we encourage you to use the #coingecko hashtag.

While you are at it, do also check out some of the features that we have at CoinGecko and tell us what you think of it.

a) Newsletter
Every weekday at around 12:00 GMT, we send out a daily crypto market newsletter with price movements and top 3 news of the day. By reading our daily newsletter, we are sure your knowledge of crypto will improve over time as we work hard to curate the best content available. Do subscribe to our newsletter if you have not already done so.

b) iOS and Android App
In July 2018, we launched our iOS and Android App. It is still on version 1 and they are both still rudimentary but we are working hard to add more features and we hope to share some exciting news in the coming weeks on some major feature updates.

c) API
We launched version 3 of our CoinGecko API in May 2018 and are proud to say that we already have several notable websites and apps using our API. We plan to keep this API free as we believe access to crypto data should not be restricted. We encourage Steem developers to make use of our API and would love to see some of the things that you build. If it’s interesting enough, we will give a shoutout on our API documentation page.

d) Telegram & Discord Bots
You may not know this but we created chat bots to solve our own itch to check crypto prices. We have a Telegram bot @CoinGeckoBot which you can PM or invite into your groups. We also recently launched our Discord.

d) Google Sheets Add-On
We wanted a way to do some analysis on Google Sheets and needed a way to quickly import crypto data. We created this Google Sheets Add-On to make our lives easier and would like to share it with the community.

We have many other features which we would love to highlight but we shall stop and just include some other interesting links here for you to reference: 2018 Q2 Crypto Report (Q3 is coming out soon!), Compare Feature, ATH chart.

Do take a look at our features above and tell us what you think about them. We are actively collecting feedback on how to make them better so do share your thoughts with us.

Moving Forward

Moving on, we will use Steem as one of our two-way communication channel. Expect us to post our announcements, run surveys, conduct contests, share our content, AMA, among other things in the future. Do reach out to us by commenting below this post or feel free to reach us directly via email at [email protected], Twitter @coingecko or also in our Telegram chat group .

There is just so much that we would love to do on Steem that it would be impossible to list them all out in a single post. With enough luck and perseverance, CoinGecko is here to stay for the long haul. We have certainly proven that we are not a fly-by-night operation having established ourselves for 4.5 years now. We have a lot more coming so do keep an eye on us in this space. We believe Steemians love to say this so we shall end this post with "See you around the blockchain"!

TM Lee & Bobby Ong
3 October 2018

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We have been observing the growth of the Steem community for many years ...

I didn't know that STEEM actually exists since many years. ;-)

Welcome to Steemit!

Time flies, 1 month feels like 1 year to us geckos :)

Awesome! I am using coingecko for a long time now and have recommended it to many others as it is a great tool to keep track of exactly the coins one wants to track. Glad to have you on here! !pancakes for everyone

We're glad to know that!

If there is any suggestions at all that you'd like to give, just holla at us. We're happy to receive any feedback.

Let me have a go:

One thing I would like to see is a view of my main coins with their $ price and their price respective to BTC and ETH, but when I enable all three the chart gets really really small with all the labels. So being able to have bigger cards in the dashboard would be nice.

Also a feature where there is only one chart but one can add multiple currencies in multiple denominators to it. Say STEEM⇔$ and STEEM⇔BTC and SBD⇔STEEM and SBD⇔$ all in one chart and that chart full screen.

There are moments when I would enjoy a say 1h view in addition to the 24h view. Or a 3 day view with markers of days so one can check for daily patterns.

That are the things I have so far :)

Hello @reggaemuffin!

We were looking back on this post and then realized we must have somehow missed this comment train! Apologies!!

Actually we are looking into that (chart label) issue for some time. There are some fixes which we hope you find to your liking. As for the Dashboard card size, we'll see how we can work around it. No guarantees but we're definitely looking into it.

Also a feature where there is only one chart but one can add multiple currencies in multiple denominators to it. Say STEEM⇔$ and STEEM⇔BTC and SBD⇔STEEM and SBD⇔$ all in one chart and that chart full screen.

Ooh, Power user!! In that case, we will recommend you our free API for your dedicated full-screen chart! talk to us in Discord to see if our community can help you with it!

I really like the convenience of having a goto website so I would not like to code my own chart. Are there tools that use the api which I can easily use?

Glad that you are working on the issues :)

hmm, so far we haven't come across any fan of ours with that tool. :(

One small thing I noticed: Steems community score is as 40% which is probably because we have our own blockchain community and don't need reddit or twitter as much. Can that be factored into the score?

Yes, we realized that.

At the moment we're not factoring that into Community Rank. We tried but there are simply too much challenges that it's not feasible when looking from the birds-eye view on the whole cryptocurrency industry. (ie. How do you compare a Steemit/Busy/Esteem user to a Twitter follower ... etc)

This might change in the future though as more people start using blockchain based social media.. who knows!

@coingecko Wuhhh , Welcome ! I love coingecko.com <3 I'm glad !

Welcome Aboard the Steem Train!

And don't forget to add your steemit account in the 'Follow Us' section of your website. With over 1 Million accounts already created you'll never know who might start following you ;-)


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for some time I was dependent on coinmarket I had to really make a few comparisons and I found out that coingecko is cool way damn precise too, Well I have a few feedbacks too for you guys, looking forward to what you hope to do with STEEM

I usually see fake pumps at coinmarketcap

Great to have another familiair name show up on here. And with some serious vestment to boot. That’s putting your money where your mouth is 😉

Just something I noticed when checking your site, I got a popdown for the app but the app is advertised as Bitcoin Crypto App. I would think that’s a rather limited description. You’re so much more than just bitcoin related.

Anyways, welcome. We’ll be seeing you around.

ps. Be sure to check out our app Steemify to get pushnotifications on mobile phones for comments, transfers, acccount changes etc.

Hi @blockbrothers, good to see you commenting here. Yes, we will definitely check out Steemify soon! :)

Yes, our app is definitely more than just bitcoin but there is a character limit from Apple App Store and we could not have a longer title.

Hey guys!
Do you have Google Sheets and Excel integration?

Oh welcome to Steem @coingecko. Lots more to track when SMTs go live next year! :)

Glad to be onboard! any SMTs looking to get listed on coingecko can fill up a request form at https://goo.gl/forms/1sRArLUxDAggur5t2

We'll be watching SMT closely and is interested to see what changes it'll bring to the industry.

Welcome! I have used your services in the past and have found them very useful. I'm glad you have decided to join this community :)

Thanks!

Do share about which parts of Coingecko.com you find very useful. You're encouraged to write a standalone review post about it but a comment is just as great. We'll definitely take note from it.

Wow... Cool! It's the Gecko that can find you the most obscure coins in the world!! Welcome! 😘😘

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We try to include every coin we can! You can always suggest to us which new coins to look at if it isn't included in our list yet.

Welcome :)
I'm using CoinGecko every day.

Posted using Partiko Android

Glad that you are! have you checked our our app and newsletter? Makes it easier to keep your update.

Android App at: https://goo.gl/hnpSD6
Newsletter: http://newsletter.coingecko.com/landing/subscribe

This is awesome! I've always used coingecko to refer the prices of cryptocurrency since I can easily convert them to my local currency right inside coingecko. If you want to know, coingecko-steem-price-in-ringgit is one of my bookmark since it makes things so easy when I want to buy/sell steem with my fellow members of #TeamMalaysia.

If I can give 1 suggestion, it would be to change the "homepage" of steem from steemit.com to steem.io in your information page about Steem. Also steem's blocktime is 3 seconds.

Minor edits of course but I think that would help in better educating the masses about Steem, and maybe give abit more green to steem's price.

My mind is blown when I realize you're on this platform because honestly I didn't expect this day to come so soon. I'm sure the steem community now have your back and more and it'll be super interesting to see the positive effects it brings to your overall brand image.

With this happening im super bullish about Steem when companies get to see what Steem offers in terms of free advertising and marketing. More than free, because not only no money is actually spent (only invested), but steem will one day moon and give you guys a nice green ROI.

This is something to talk about come Steemfest3.

I've used CoinGecko for a while now, much better than CoinMarketCap.

Welcome to Steem!

Thanks! If you have any suggestions at all on how we can do better, do let us know either on Steemit or via email at [email protected]