Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world’s largest and most trusted names in crypto. Headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with a team of roughly 2,000, Kraken serves tens of millions of registered users in more than 190 countries. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of crypto, unlocking access, reducing inefficiencies, and driving financial freedom for individuals and institutions worldwide.

Accurate and reliable market data is a cornerstone of how Kraken delivers on this mission. By integrating CoinGecko API, Kraken provides real-time and historical pricing data across its marketing touchpoints and products, empowering clients with transparent insights into the real-time dynamics of  the crypto market.

Key Metrics at a Glance

• Kraken’s asset-specific pages, enriched with CoinGecko pricing data, have attracted tens of thousands of monthly visits, serving as an educational and acquisition funnel for our suite of products and services.

• By integrating CoinGecko’s API, Kraken was able to deliver client-requested features, such as market capitalization tracking for assets. 

• Compared to previous crypto data providers, CoinGecko enabled better uptime and accuracy, ensuring that clients always see the most current data when making trading decisions.

• By embedding more transparent, real-time crypto price and market data from CoinGecko’s API, Kraken has strengthened trust with its clients. This has translated into 44% higher engagement and conversion across Kraken’s ecosystem.

How Kraken Uses CoinGecko API

Kraken relies on the CoinGecko API to provide real-time prices for thousands of assets, many of which are listed on Kraken. Market-level insights including categories, trading volume, highs and lows, and market capitalization, alongside historical data that powers spark charts and comparative views, are also derived from CoinGecko’s API. This data is core to the Kraken experience, on both Kraken.com and Kraken Pro, empowering users to gain data-driven insights and make faster, more informed decisions.

Crypto Price & Categories Pages

Kraken’s price and categories pages have become important gateways for client acquisition, product discovery, and education. For example, users visiting Kraken’s Bitcoin (BTC) price page can view real-time price updates, market cap, and volume traded.

At a market-level, Kraken gives clients and users an overview of crypto categories performance.

Users can then dive deeper into categories sorted by market cap or volume, supported by CoinGecko’s structured dataset:

Why CoinGecko API

Kraken selected CoinGecko’s API for its flexibility, reliability, and breadth of coverage. Kraken needed an integration partner that could support both Kraken’s large-scale public marketing needs and the data enrichment required for client-facing products.

The CoinGecko API’s robust endpoints, responsive support team, and clear documentation allowed Kraken to onboard quickly and efficiently. Within a short timeframe, Kraken was able to integrate CoinGecko data across multiple use cases — from powering real-time pricing tickers and spark charts on kraken.com, to providing deeper market insights inside the product itself.

Additionally, the CoinGecko team was highly responsive and receptive to feedback, which made the integration process smooth and confidence-inspiring. 

Maximising Client Trust

The CoinGecko API integration has produced measurable outcomes for Kraken. Asset-specific pages enriched with CoinGecko pricing data have attracted tens of thousands of monthly visits, serving as an educational resource and acquisition funnel. Market cap tracking, one of the most requested features, was successfully launched with CoinGecko’s support. 

By embedding more transparent, real-time information, Kraken strengthened trust with its clients, which translated into higher engagement and conversions across its ecosystem. The integration also provided key lessons: CoinGecko’s structured datasets simplify the challenge of tracking the evolving crypto landscape, while efficient integration techniques such as caching and selective data calls optimize performance. Importantly, once users accessed reliable CoinGecko-powered data, they requested even deeper insights about how they could leverage CoinGecko data in their roadmap initiatives.

“The CoinGecko API enables us to deliver comprehensive, real-time information that empowers Kraken clients to research deeply, trade profitably, and invest with confidence. By equipping our users with the insights they need, it has become a key driver of growth and engagement at Kraken.”

What’s Next On The Roadmap?

Looking ahead, Kraken plans to expand CoinGecko API coverage across crypto, stocks, and ETF pages, with enriched views on trading activity, volume, and other market indicators. On-chain and fundamental data will be more deeply integrated with Kraken Pro and Ink to power advanced research tools, helping clients go beyond price analysis and understand the context of assets they’re exploring. 

Finally, Kraken also intends to leverage CoinGecko API to develop more educational modules, market summaries, and insights that empower both new and advanced users to make more informed trading decisions.

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This article was written in collaboration with Kraken.