cbrzn
commented
5 months ago Token Research Tool API
Selection criteria
- Functionality
- Multiple tokens & chains
- Liquidity of token
- Historical prices
- Categorize tokens
- API Key easy to access
- Cheap to use
Candidates
Messari
- API only available to Enterprise users, which makes on boarding ux very bad
- They have governance information which might come handy when we want to support dao research
Defillama
- Doesn't need API Key (Until rate limit is reached which is not specified in their documentation)
- It uses coingecko under the hood
- Doesn't have token metadata (like market cap or how much was traded in the last 24 hours)
- Doesn't categorize tokens, because it's completely focused on Defi
- Information on yields, which might come handy when we want to support yield
Moralis
- Focused on wallet UX (Like getting all erc20 and nfts of an address), rather than token research per se
- Doesn't have token metadata (like market cap or how much was traded in the last 24 hours)
- Access tokens through address and not through symbol, making us to depend on another service to map symbol to address
- Only supports uniswap v2 when it comes to token liquidity
Tokenterminal
- User needs to send an email to them in order to get an API Key, which makes on-boarding ux very bad
- The API does not have too much functionality
Coingecko
- Has a free tier plan, but has a rate limit of ~30 calls per minute (depends on traffic size according to documentation)
- Gives information about the historic price of tokens
- Allows to easily compare to any other currency (fiat or token)
- Has categories for tokens, allowing to query them based on chain/category
- Returns intervals of 24h/7d/14d/30d/60d/200d/1y for price change percentage
Coinmarketcap
- Has a free tier plan that allows 10k calls monthly
- Is very much like Coingecko with the difference that the free tier has fewer endpoints and returns less information when it comes to historical data
- Also, the max interval it returns is
90d
Conclusion
After considering the different options and their pros and cons, I suggest moving forward with Coingecko due to its complete feature with the free plan; we can do useful things with what's available
dOrgJelli
Develop a "token research" agent that enables users to query various aspects of the token marketplace at large. It should leverage a cryptocurrency data platform like coingecko.com, and be able to respond to prompts such as:
More advanced prompts:
When finding an API to use, we should try to optimize for quality of features, and price. Ideally it wouldn't cost too much $ so users could easily signup for their own API keys. Please reference the following links when making this decision: