Top 500 Cryptocurrencies: Historical Data 2024/25

Dataset Overview:
This dataset is a high-precision financial archive covering the Top 500 Cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. It captures historical price action and market metadata from late 2024 through 2025. Engineered for data scientists and quant analysts, the data has been strictly validated to ensure zero missing values, zero duplicates, and zero negative prices.

It allows for deep-dive analysis into the crypto market's structure, offering both granular daily price data (OHLC) for time-series forecasting and comprehensive metadata (Supply, Volume, ATH) for fundamental valuation.

Data Science Applications:

• Price Prediction: Train LSTM/GRU models using open, close, high, and low features.
• Market Sentiment Analysis: Correlate volume and market_cap changes with price action.
• Portfolio Optimization: Analyze covariance matrices between top assets like Bitcoin (BTC) and emerging altcoins.
• Clustering: Group coins by market_cap_rank or circulating_supply to identify asset classes.
• Technical Analysis: Compute RSI, MACD, and Bollinger Bands using the clean OHLC history.

Column Descriptors:

top_500_metadata.csv

Contains snapshot data for the top 500 coins.

• id: Unique CoinGecko identifier (e.g., bitcoin, solana).
• symbol: Ticker symbol (e.g., btc, sol).
• name: Full name of the asset.
• image: URL to the coin's logo.
• current_price: Latest market price in USD.
• market_cap: Total market capitalization in USD.
• market_cap_rank: Global rank by market cap.
• fully_diluted_valuation: Theoretical market cap if max supply was in circulation.
• total_volume: 24-hour trading volume.
• high_24h / low_24h: Highest and lowest price in the last 24 hours.
• price_change_24h: Absolute price change in the last 24 hours.
• price_change_percentage_24h: Percentage price change in the last 24 hours.
• circulating_supply: Amount of coins currently in the market.
• total_supply: Total amount of coins created.
• max_supply: Maximum amount of coins that will ever exist.
• ath: All-Time High price.
• atl: All-Time Low price.
• last_updated: Timestamp of the metadata snapshot.

crypto_ohlc_checkpoint.csv

Contains the historical time-series data.

Ethically Obtained Data:
This dataset was constructed using the CoinGecko Public API (v3) in strict adherence to their terms of service.

• Rate Limits: Data extraction respected the 30 calls/minute limit using exponential backoff algorithms.
• Public Domain: All data points are publicly accessible market information.
• No Personal Data: Contains only aggregated financial market metrics.

Acknowledgements:
Data provided by the CoinGecko API.