aneonex
Any chance of adding CoinGecko? (support DEX)
Quite a nice API available here: https://www.coingecko.com/en/api.
Why do you need CoinGecko? Bitcoin Checker app interacts directly with exchanges API, but CoinGecko is not an exchange but a centralized aggregator. Direct communication has various advantages: speed, availability, reliability, the ability to use the specifics of exchanges, and more.
Because it will add instant support for all coins listed there, including a lot of DEX. I saw you added Uniswap but there are uncountable other DEXes each with their own coins.
I'm not sure about alternatives, I know there is thegraph.com but it is also still missing a lot of exchanges.
Interesting problem, I'd be curious about other techniques/APIs of extracting price information from LPs for example! More and more of trading will take on-chain only.
I agree, CoinGecko is very useful for extracting price information from DEX. But when I added Uniswap, CoinGeko was missing information on some significant tokens, and there were other problems, so I had to use a more complex but reliable TheGraph. Perhaps the situation has improved now.
It seems like a good idea to implement support for top 20-30 DEX through CoinGecko. Will this solve the issue? Full integration with CoinGecko doesn't fit into the app's concept.
Interesting problem, I'd be curious about other techniques/APIs of extracting price information from LPs for example! More and more of trading will take on-chain only.
Yes it's true. But what is "LPs"? :)
Liquidity pools. Problem is they don't use order books so price information is much more opaque. I find CoinGecko is somewhat of a solution here. This is their list of top DEXes: https://www.coingecko.com/en/dex.
:+1: for this!
Will be awesome to have top 10/20/30 dex from coingecko on BitcoinChecker
In my point of view LPs get out of the context of the APP, because the interface expect a pair(ex: BTC/BUSD)
For LPs we need to have a more explicit way to show this (as example, is often called BTC/BUSD LP)
An idea is to support the coins pair for these DEX on coingecko and put the LP on backlog for later
@jorijnsmit Unfortunately, I was unable to find an API to get ticker for coin pair. CoinGecko only allows you to get a list of prices for a token, not for a pair. This leads to traffic overhead. Instead of CoinGecko , I plan to use a TheGraph.com for all DEX, as already implemented for Uniswap.
@jorijnsmit Unfortunately, I was unable to find an API to get ticker for coin pair. CoinGecko only allows you to get a list of prices for a token, not for a pair. This leads to traffic overhead. Instead of CoinGecko , I plan to use a TheGraph.com for all DEX, as already implemented for Uniswap.
any plans to have thegraph working?
This turned out to be more difficult than I expected and will take longer, sorry. While the issue on hold.
@aneonex could you add pancakeswap similar to how you added uniswap in the meantime?
