CoinMarketCap, the most-visited aggregator of cryptocurrency market data, has changed the way it uses data from the Bitfinex exchange in response to a report by CoinDesk.
On Tuesday, CoinDesk pointed out that a trading pair shown on CoinMarketCap - seemingly, for trades between the tether stablecoin and U.S. dollars - did not represent a pair that's available for trading on Bitfinex.
From looking at CoinMarketCap data, the ostensible pair appeared to be the second-highest by 24-hour volume on the exchange at the time the article was written.
In response to CoinDesk's report, Bitfinex clarified that the volume shown on CoinMarketCap represented the sum of withdrawals and deposits of USDT to and from Bitfinex.
While the Bitfinex USDT/USD pair's volume appears to be excluded from calculations on CoinMarketCap's tether markets page, it is unclear whether it's been excluded from volume totals on the site's Bitfinex page.
For one thing, the pair is not labeled with a double asterisk, denoting "Volume excluded," on the Bitfinex exchange page.
While Bitfinex has suggested that CoinMarketCap is responsible for how it presents data from the exchange's application programming interface, CoinMarketCap described a lack of communication on Bitfinex's part.
As noted in Tuesday's article, Chan of CoinMarketCap told CoinDesk that Bitfinex had "Not responded to multiple direct requests from our team members" regarding the data point, which she said was drawn from Bitfinex's API. Prior to the article's publication, Rasmussen had confirmed to CoinDesk that the USDT/USD pair was not available for trading on Bitfinex and said he would follow up "Asap" regarding the data displayed on CoinMarketCap.
Following the article's publication, Bitfinex objected to the headline's description of the exchange as "Publishing data for a tether market that doesn't exist," on the grounds that CoinMarketCap is responsible for how it uses the API data.
Bitfinex has close ties to Tether, the company that issues USDT, with the two firms sharing common managers and shareholders.
CoinMarketCap Excludes Some Tether Data After Clarification by Bitfinex
Published on Oct 24, 2018
by Coindesk | Published on Coinage
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