Coinmarketcap.com Biography & Web Analysis

CoinMarketCap is a cryptocurrency industry utility that aggregates and reports recently-traded prices for hundreds of cryptocurrencies traded on hundreds of platforms around the world. For each currency it reports the total value of the outstanding currency (the "market capitalization"), its total trading volume and its rank by trading volume over the past month and the past 24 hours.
CoinMarketCap was founded in 2013 by Brandon Chez, a computer programmer and early bitcoin adopter. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal attempted to reveal his identity by tracing his work computer to his apartment in Long Island, New York, after Chez removed price details from a number of South Korean sites suspected of listing inaccurate information, causing a price crash for numerous digital assets, including XRP.
For each cryptocurrency and each platform that CoinMarketCap displays, it provides web links to the appropriate web explorers, white papers and platform homepages.
On May 1, 2019, CoinMarketCap announced the formation of the Data Accountability & Transparency Alliance (DATA), uniting leading cryptocurrency trading platforms to enhance data reporting. To participate in DATA exchanges must provide live trading and orderbook data to CoinMarketCap.
The integrity of CoinMarketCap's data reporting was excoriated in a widely publicized March 19, 2019, presentation to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by Bitwise, an asset management firm with a pending application to the SEC for a bitcoin ETF.
CoinMarketCap is a web service that provides aggregated cryptocurrency market data. It has been owned by Binance since April 2020.