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Coinranking

Coinranking provides a comprehensive API for accessing cryptocurrency market data, including coin prices, market caps, and historical data.

Verdict

Coinranking surfaces live crypto market data inside your Spaces — prices, historical charts, trending coins, and global market stats. @mention it to pull current rankings, compare coin performance over custom time ranges, or check what's moving in real time. Analysts and traders get instant access to thousands of coins without leaving the conversation. Finance teams can track portfolio assets or research new tokens on the fly. The API key setup is straightforward, but you'll need a Coinranking account with an active key — free tiers exist, though rate limits apply.

Common use cases

  • Track Bitcoin price swings during team standups
  • Compare altcoin performance over custom date ranges
  • Spot trending tokens before market moves
  • Pull global market cap for investor reports
  • Research coin tags for portfolio diversification

Integration

Vendor
Coinranking
Category
developer-tools
Auth
API_KEY
Tools
6
Composio slug
coinranking

Tools

  • Get Coin History

    Tool to retrieve historical price data for a specific coin over a time period. use when you need to analyze past performance of a coin; call after confirming its uuid.

  • Get Coins

    Tool to retrieve a list of all coins with optional filters and pagination. use when you need to fetch coins matching specific criteria and paginate through results.

  • Get Global Crypto Market Stats

    Tool to retrieve global cryptocurrency market statistics. use when you need an overview of the entire crypto market.

  • Get Reference Currencies

    Tool to retrieve a list of all reference currencies with optional pagination. use when you need supported fiat or crypto denominators for price conversions.

  • Get Tags

    Tool to fetch all coin tags. use when you need the canonical list of tags after authenticating.

  • Get Trending Coins

    Tool to retrieve a list of trending coins ranked by user engagement and popularity. use when you need up-to-date trending coin data for analysis or display.

Setup

Setup guide

  1. 11. Open your Switchy workspace and navigate to Settings > Integrations. 2. Find Coinranking in the MCP catalog and click Connect. 3. You'll be prompted to enter your Coinranking API key — grab this from your Coinranking dashboard under API Access (sign up at coinranking.com if you don't have an account). 4. Paste the key into Switchy and click Authorize. 5. Switchy confirms the connection and lists the six available tools. 6. Open any Space and type '@Coinranking get me the top 10 coins by market cap' to test — the MCP should return a ranked list with current prices. 7. If you see data, you're live; if you get an auth error, double-check the key hasn't expired or hit its rate limit.

What teammates see: by default, memories from Coinranking are scoped to the Space (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.

Works well with

Top models

Compatibility data appears once enough Spaces have used this MCP together with a given model.

How Switchy teams use it

Not enough Spaces yet to publish anonymised usage stats (we require ≥ 50 Spaces per week).

Starter prompts

Top Coins by Market Cap

@Coinranking get me the top 10 coins by market cap right now, including their current prices and 24-hour change percentages.
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Bitcoin Price History

@Coinranking show me Bitcoin's price history for the last 30 days so I can see how it's been trending.
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Global Market Overview

@Coinranking give me the current global crypto market stats — total market cap, volume, and BTC dominance.
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Coins Tagged DeFi

@Coinranking find all coins tagged as DeFi and show me the top five by market cap.
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Example outputs

Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.

Prompt

@Coinranking show me the top 10 trending coins right now and their 24-hour price changes

Output

Based on current user engagement data, the top trending coins include Bitcoin (BTC) up 2.3% in 24h at $43,521, Ethereum (ETH) down 0.8% at $2,287, and Solana (SOL) up 5.1% at $98.42. The list continues with Cardano, Ripple, Polkadot, Chainlink, Polygon, Avalanche, and Shiba Inu, showing mixed performance across the board. This snapshot reflects real-time popularity metrics combined with recent price movements.

Notes

This example demonstrates the Get Trending Coins tool, which surfaces coins by engagement rather than market cap alone. Requires a valid API key. Trending rankings shift frequently throughout the day, so results shown here are illustrative. Rate limits on the free tier may restrict how often you can poll for updates.

Prompt

@Coinranking pull Bitcoin's price history for the last 30 days and identify the biggest single-day drop

Output

Over the past 30 days, Bitcoin's price ranged from a low of $41,203 on January 8th to a high of $46,892 on January 22nd. The largest single-day decline occurred on January 15th, when BTC dropped 6.2% from $45,100 to $42,303 in 24 hours. The month overall showed a net gain of 3.8%, with volatility clustering around mid-month following regulatory news from the SEC.

Notes

This example pairs the Get Coin History tool with AI reasoning to surface insights from raw time-series data. You must know or look up the coin's UUID first (Bitcoin is 'Qwsogvtv82FCd'). Historical data granularity depends on your API tier—free plans may return daily snapshots rather than hourly ticks.

Prompt

@Coinranking what are the global crypto market stats right now, and how does total market cap compare to last week?

Output

The global cryptocurrency market currently shows a total market cap of $1.68 trillion, with 24-hour trading volume at $89.4 billion across 12,847 active coins. Bitcoin dominance stands at 51.2%. Compared to last week's snapshot of $1.61 trillion, the market has grown by approximately 4.3%, driven primarily by gains in large-cap assets. Total volume is up 12% week-over-week, suggesting increased trading activity.

Notes

This example uses the Get Global Crypto Market Stats tool to provide a macro view, then layers in comparative analysis. The MCP returns a point-in-time snapshot—it does not store historical global stats, so week-over-week comparisons require you to cache prior results yourself or query coin-level history. Useful for market overviews before drilling into specific assets.

Use-case deep-dives

Portfolio dashboard for fintech startup

When Coinranking beats building your own crypto data pipeline

A 6-person fintech team building a portfolio tracker needs real-time coin prices, historical charts, and market cap rankings. Coinranking's 6 tools cover the full read-only surface: Get Coins for search, Get Coin History for sparklines, Get Global Crypto Market Stats for the header banner. The API key auth means you skip OAuth complexity and rate-limit headaches. This MCP wins if you're displaying data, not executing trades—no wallet integration, no order book depth. If your app needs sub-second price ticks or exchange-specific order flow, you'll hit Coinranking's refresh limits and need a WebSocket feed instead. For most dashboard and analytics use cases under 10k requests/day, this is the fastest path from zero to live crypto data in your Switchy workspace.

Weekly crypto market research memo

Coinranking for recurring market intelligence reports

A 3-person investment research team publishes a weekly crypto memo covering top movers, sector trends, and macro market stats. They use Get Trending Coins to surface the week's narrative, Get Tags to group coins by DeFi/NFT/Layer-1 categories, and Get Global Crypto Market Stats for the opening paragraph's total market cap figure. The workflow runs every Monday morning in a shared Switchy chat: one analyst prompts the MCP, another edits the output into the memo template. This setup works because the data refresh cadence matches the publication schedule—daily or hourly reports would burn through rate limits. If your team needs intraday alerts or custom technical indicators, Coinranking's snapshot tools won't cut it. For weekly or monthly research where you're synthesizing trends, not trading on them, this MCP delivers the raw material without a data engineering hire.

Customer support for crypto wallet app

When Coinranking helps support answer 'why did my balance change'

A 5-person support team at a consumer crypto wallet handles tickets like 'my Bitcoin dropped 10% overnight, is this a bug?' They use Get Coin History to pull the actual 24-hour price chart and confirm the market moved, not the wallet. Get Reference Currencies lets them convert USD complaints into the user's local fiat for clearer explanations. The MCP lives in the support team's Switchy workspace so any agent can fact-check price questions without leaving the chat. This works because 80% of 'balance wrong' tickets are market movement, not bugs—Coinranking's historical data closes those in under 2 minutes. If your support load includes staking rewards, gas fee estimates, or transaction status, you'll need a blockchain explorer MCP alongside this one. For pure price-and-market questions at small-to-mid support volume, Coinranking turns every agent into a market data expert.

Frequently asked

What does the Coinranking MCP do in Switchy?

It pulls live crypto market data into your AI workspace. Your team can query coin prices, historical trends, global market stats, and trending coins without leaving Switchy. The MCP wraps Coinranking's API so your AI can answer questions like 'What's Bitcoin's price in EUR?' or 'Show me trending altcoins this week' using real-time data.

Do I need a Coinranking API key to use this MCP?

Yes. You authenticate with an API key from Coinranking. Anyone on your team can generate one from their Coinranking dashboard. Paste it into Switchy's MCP settings once and the connection persists for all workspace members. No OAuth dance, no admin approval required.

Can the Coinranking MCP execute trades or manage wallets?

No. It's read-only market data. You get prices, historical charts, trending coins, and market stats. If you need to buy, sell, or move crypto, use your exchange's native app or a trading API. This MCP is for analysis and research, not portfolio management.

Why use this MCP instead of just visiting Coinranking's website?

Your AI can query the data mid-conversation and combine it with other tools. Ask 'Compare Bitcoin's 30-day trend to Ethereum and draft a memo' and the MCP fetches both histories while your AI writes. You skip tab-switching and manual copy-paste. The website is faster for one-off lookups.

Does connecting this MCP count against my Switchy plan limits?

MCP connections don't count as seats. Rate limits depend on your Coinranking API tier, not Switchy. If your team hammers the API with hundreds of queries per hour, Coinranking may throttle you. Check their pricing page for request caps tied to your key.

Data last verified 607 hours ago.Sources aggregated hourly to weekly. See docs/architecture/model-directory.md.