In this post, you'll learn What is CoinMarketCal? How To Use CoinMarketCal Like A Pro | A Guide to CoinMarketCal
In the crypto market, when it comes to price checking, many people know CoinMarketCap. So, where do you usually check the event information of each project? In today's article, I would like to introduce to you the CoinMarketCal tool - a website that specializes in providing information about events of crypto projects in the most complete and fastest way. Besides, I will share how to use as well as tips I often use to take advantage of the advantages of CoinMarketCal to participate in the crypto market.
1. What is CoinMarketCal?
CoinMarketCal is a website that provides information about events of crypto projects. Here, you can check information about events related to almost all crypto projects. Types of events announced on CoinMarketCal:
- Update roadmap (mainnet, testnet, fork, ..) of projects.
- Information about meet ups, conferences.
- Weekly/monthly report of coins.
- Schedule fork, halving, upgrade of projects.
- Coin burn schedule.
- The schedule for launching the app or the products of the projects.
- List of exchanges of coins.
- Snapshot schedule of exchanges.
- Events, AMA calendar of projects.
Information about CoinMarketCal
- CoinMarketCal is the first and leading website for providing event information of crypto projects. They founded in the second half of 2017 and are headquartered in Toulouse, France.
- The information on CoinMarketCal is provided by community distributors and has their own moderation team.
- According to statistics from November 2017 to June 2019, on average, each month there are 2 million pageviews, 158k visitors from many countries around the world. In which, Russia, the US and India are the 3 countries with the most traffic. (*)
(*)Information provided in CoinMarketCal's report
Features of CoinMarketCal
- Provide event information (mainnet, product launching, AMA, Conference, ..) completely free for end users.
- Allows users to create Alerts about coins they are interested in.
- Provide APIs (for a fee) to 3rd parties who want to exploit the service.
- Providing free Widgets, 3rd parties can put the information displayed on their website.
- You can all add events to CoinMarketCal, they will have a team of moderation.
Who should use CoinMarketCal
CoinMarketCal is free and suitable for all those interested in the crypto market:
- Investors and traders can go to CoinMarketCal to check listing information, or burn coins.
- Bounty and Airdrop brothers can check the snapshot schedule or airdrop payment schedule.
- Researchers can look up historical events of the coins and compare it with the price at that time. Below I will guide you in detail about this Tips.
2. How to Use CoinMarketCal
The interface of CoinMarketCal in my opinion is quite simple and intuitive.
- [1] Add Event: Used to add events about any coin
- [2] Upcoming Events: List of upcoming events
- [3] Past Event: List of events that took place in the past
- [4] Filters: Allows you to filter event information by many criteria
- [5] Information of events
The upper part is the basic information of that event, including: Coin name, event name, event date, event information.
In addition, you may also be interested in:
- [1] Proof: Proof of that event.
- [2] Source: Source of authentic information from the project, usually posts posted on the official channels of the project.
- [3] Ratio of votes: including the number of votes. This is the percentage at which the community (users like us) agree to confirm that the event information is correct.
- [4] Real and Fake buttons: Here you can give your opinion about whether the event is true or not by clicking on the Real or Fake button. This is a good feature of CoinMarketCal, using the user community to support information verification.
- [5] Information about the date of posting this event on the website. If there is a "Confirmed by official representative" below, it means that this information has been checked and verified by CoinMarketCal's own team.
Guide to finding the right events on CoinMarketCal
In this section, I will guide you how to find event information about the project you are interested in. Here I will take an example with upcoming Upcoming Events:
Find all events of a crypto project.
You simply need to enter the project name in the Coins box and then press Enter to receive the results. As shown below, I am looking for Fantom (FTM) events in the near future. Some events I will be interested in are Partnerships In Dubai, OPERA Chain Mainnet of this project.
Search by keywords.
As shown below, I am interested in projects that will be mainnet in the near future. Enter the word “mainnet” in the Keywords box.
This is the result received.
Combined search.
Below, I want to find out if TomoChain has any upcoming AMA events to ask questions.
In addition, you can also filter by many other Filters such as Hot Events, Top 10 coins, Top 10 Exchanges...
Frequently asked questions with CoinMarketCal
What sources do CoinMarketCal events come from?
CoinMarketCal events are provided directly by users, or by self-updating projects. The event source is usually obtained from:
- Official information channels of the project: Twitter, Telegram Channel, Medium, Project Website.
- Information published in the events that have taken place.
Who checks and validates event information on CoinMarketCal?
To verify the accuracy of information on CoinMarketCal. They directly use the votes of the community members on this website.
In my opinion, this is a great way to take advantage of the power of the community. At the same time, empower the community to decide "voting - authenticate".
In addition, CoinMarketCal also has their own testing team.
Delete or request correction on CoinMarketCal?
If you find the event information on this website is incorrect, you can click on the Fake button to vote for the authenticity of that information.
The more Fake votes, the lower the % displayed information will be, thereby helping other brothers to understand the quality of that information. That is for the general user.
For projects with an account on CoinMarketCal, they can edit/delete event information if the information is not accurate.
Go to Admin's Account page >> Show >> Edit request
CoinMarketCal of which country?
CoinMarketCal was launched in the second half of 2017 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.
Read more: A Guide to Coinmarketcap (CMC)
I just introduced and showed you how to use CoinMarketCal, as well as make use of it effectively to participate in the crypto market. Hope you guys get a lot of valuable information in the article.
Thank you!