Accessing Market Data

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
api, data

Research direction

Start with the linked CoinGecko API documentation and JavaScript wrapper, focusing on the /coin/:id endpoint and its rate-limit requirements. The issue names no repository files or tests; the work is ready only after the required per-asset fields and the API-key or request-volume approach are agreed and documented.

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Description

discussion

CoinGecko API is a solid choice, and what we used for Balancer project. Open to other suggestions. From here we can get asset values in any fiat currency, as well as price action within a timeframe.

They also have a nice Javascript wrapper lib already

  • Will we need to consider rate limits / API keys here?
    • Free tier is 100 requests / minute.
What data do we need?

For each asset:
* Current price (in USD)
* 24 hour change

You can make one call /coin/:id but there is a ton of extraneous data

Dominant language
HTML
Stars
3
Forks
1
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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