CoinGecko Fortnightly Digest
Steem Exclusive Digest (12 - 26 Oct 2018)
Read about all the things we have been doing at CoinGecko!
Welcome to CoinGecko’s first ever Fortnightly Digest! In our first exclusive Steemit newsletter, you will read about what we have done over the past 2 weeks!
We at CoinGecko are always hard at work to make your experience on CoinGecko better. Being one of the leading cryptocurrency data aggregators, we uphold transparency strongly and that includes updating the community on what we have done behind the scenes. We hope with this fortnightly digest, we can better keep all of you updated on our journey.
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First, a word from CoinGecko’s Founders
There is always something interesting happening in the crypto world. In the past two weeks, it has been all about stablecoins. Bitcoin price has stayed mostly stable except for a day when it increased 12% in a mere couple of hours as market became worried with Tether. We saw Coinbase and Goldman-Sach backed Circle joined forces to issue USD Coin, a new stablecoin to rival Tether. We view the development of stablecoins as a very positive sign of a maturing crypto industry. We expect more stablecoins to be launched and with so many stablecoins already in the market, we prepared this comparison page for you to easily keep a close eye on the space.
- TM Lee & Bobby Ong
1. We have revamped our homepage
You will notice some obvious changes on our homepage such as the tab to toggle between “Market”, “ATH”, “Developer”, “Social” and “Gecko Rank” on the main table. You may also notice that the sorting function is very quick now!
2. More prominent Favourite button
Do you know that you can display only your favorite coins using CoinGecko? You should try it out with the “Favourite” Button easily seen on the main page.
3. New categories
We’ve added new categories in the filters. Now you are able to see a list of Exchange Based Tokens using CoinGecko.
4. Tweaking of coin pages
We made some changes to the individual coin pages to better improve the information presented. This is still a work in progress so do share your feedback and let us know what else you would like to see on the coin pages.
5. CoinGecko partners with Utopian to power open source development
We announced our partnership with Utopian to speed up the development of our open-source Cryptoexchange repository. This Ruby gem allows anyone to query data from more than 200 exchanges with ease. We will be announcing our first task request very soon!
CoinGecko is now tracking over 3,000 coins! We are proud to be the first crypto data aggregator to reach this milestone. In the past two weeks we added in total 95 coins and 17 exchanges.
Coins
Exchanges
- IncoreX
- GDAC
- CoinBe
- Alluma
- DragonEx
- FatBTC
- Vaultmex
- BKEX
- Bitsten
- Ironex
- Dakuce
- Coineal
- Coinpark
- Cryptology
- Bitker
- TOKOK
It has been a hectic two weeks here at CoinGecko HQ with so many giveaways and contests. We hope you were able to take part in all our contests and giveaways. Here is a recap on what went on. Congratulations to the winners and thank you for participating!
CoinGecko Writing Contest - Why Cryptocurrency is important to me
Congratulations to the winners of our first writing contest! We are quite surprised at the response we have received. The Steem community really does show what it is capable of. Do follow us closely for more contests!
CoinGecko + Altcoin Buzz Giveaway
We’ve partnered with Altcoin Buzz to give away 1 Cool Wallet S, 400 XLM, 200 TOMO, 5000 ETN and 50,000 APL. The winners of the giveaway are as follow:
Cool Wallet S - Jose Eljoselo
400 XLM - Murgan Robert
200 TOMO - Evan Souther
5,000 ETN - Anil Sangwan
50,000 APL - Benjamin Martinez
Want to know when we run our next giveaway? Follow us on Steemit and 
CoinGecko KyberWidget Contest (ongoing)
To celebrate our partnership with Kyber, we will be giving out 25 sets of goodies to Steemians who reviews the KyberWidget. Simply try out the widget on coingecko.com, show us your experience and write a post to tell us what you think of it!
We are extending the contest till 11 November. Do use #coingecko-kyber to qualify for the contest.
Coingecko EVT Giveaway (ongoing)
CoinGecko is also giving away $10,000* worth of Ethfinex Voting Tokens (3,000,000 EVT) to 300 lucky winners! Stand a chance to win 10,000 EVT to vote for new coins listings on Ethfinex or sell them on the exchange. This is the biggest giveaway we have run so far.
That’s all the update that we have for today. Do share your thoughts with us here and let us know what you would like to see on CoinGecko and how we can better improve. Thank you!