Coingecko’s secret ranking

The coingecko API contains information that isn’t obviously available on the website as far as I can find https://www.coingecko.com/en/api/documentation

One of these datapoints is “coingecko score” which is probably a calculation involving at least “developer score”. “community score” and “public interest score”. There’s no specific explanation.

I wrote a Python script to pull these data points and some others off the coingecko api for 13,302 coins. The script took about 15 hours to run because it has avoid triggering the limits of free api access. I probably made it over conservative sleeping for 27 seconds after 30 requests and 3 seconds between different coins. I had to make 2 requests for every coin because I wanted atl and ath which is on a different endpoint.

It turns out the top 50 coins in CG rank is not the same as the standard site ranking of market cap rank. Perhaps this list could be the “Most reliable crypto projects”?

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CGRank Name MarketCapRank CGScore 1 Bitcoin 1 83.151 2 Ethereum 2 78.783 3 XRP 6 66.223 4 Solana 9 65.857 5 BNB 4 65.446 6 Dogecoin 10 65.012 7 Cardano 8 62.536 8 Chainlink 24 62.148 9 Polkadot 12 62.064 10 Stellar 27 61.795 11 Avalanche 18 61.099 12 Monero 29 61.097 13 TRON 15 60.859 14 Litecoin 22 59.941 15 Algorand 32 59.669 16 Cosmos Hub 23 57.378 17 Cronos 28 56.812 18 Zcash 71 56.684 19 Tezos 44 56.634 20 Waves 125 55.927 21 The Graph 77 55.819 22 Zilliqa 95 55.779 23 NEO 76 55.69 24 VeChain 36 54.908 25 Basic Attention 98 54.758 26 Status 228 54.203 27 Ravencoin 112 53.939 28 USD Coin 5 53.898 29 Gas 534 53.842 30 Lisk 205 53.413 31 NEAR Protocol 30 53.336 32 Mina Protocol 99 53.194 33 Nano 252 53.169 34 Harmony 157 53.092 35 Fantom 81 52.89 36 Decentraland 51 52.743 37 Loopring 120 52.65 38 Maker 62 52.542 39 Dash 92 51.994 40 Elrond 43 51.956 41 Synthetix Network 78 51.872 42 Storj 370 51.784 43 IOST 140 50.954 44 Groestlcoin 590 50.953 45 Klaytn 63 50.921 46 Lido DAO 47 50.817 47 Qtum 132 50.77 48 Nervos Network 225 50.769 49 Wrapped Bitcoin (Sollet) None 50.755 50 Ergo 217 50.604