[Crypto] CryptoCompare Exchange Data (5/15/2020)

Context

In a quest to find the best exchange for both traders and blockchain projects, I am scouring the internet to lump all exchange data into one place!

Content

You can read more from their exchange report here

And here is a Tableua summary table (note, doesn't contain 0-score exchanges, need to use API to get that data)
https://www.cryptocompare.com/external/research/exchange-ranking/

Now, let's dig into the categories a bit:

-Legal Score: multi-dimensional score that includes things like KYC procedures, insurance against losses, sanction compliance, etc.
-Investment Score: Where does investment come from? Large/Small VC? Amount?
-Team Score: Exchange age, team credentials, etc
-DataProvision Score: API Response time, granularity of candlestick data, API availability/limits, etc
-TradeMonitoring Score: Internal/external trade surveillance?
-MarketQuality Score: average spread, liquidity, natural trading behavior, etc.
-Security Score: SSL, cold wallets, hacks, etc
-NegativeReport Penalty: deducts 5% from any exchanges with negative reports (flash crash, privacy breach, etc)
-One Star: number of 1-star ratings
-Two Star: number of 2-star ratings
-Three Star: ...
-Four Star: ...
-Five Star: ...
-Percent One Star: % 1-star ratings
-Percent Two Star: ...
-Percent Three Star: ...
-Percent Four Star: ...
-Percent FIve Star: ...
-Avg Star: Average star rating of exchange
-[Other columns]: Not so sure about the vategorical columns. Couldn't find any info on the website. They are too unbalanced anyway so likely not useful

Acknowledgements

Thanks to CryptoCompare for their free API where you can access the data here:
https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/exchanges/general

And a special shoutout to my friend for creating this awesome Google Sheets Add-On that makes connecting API's and getting data a breeze:
https://mixedanalytics.com/api-connector/

Cover Photo
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Inspiration

What factors make for a good exchange?