Project Overview

COINGUIDE : a webapp that aims to guide crypto traders on the most popular Cryptocurrencies. It achieves this by fetching records from poloniex using their api, rating these records according to their buy orders.

Coinguide aims to keep traders informed about the popular coins (coins which the highest number of buy orders within a specific time range). A future goal of the project is to become a reliable platform that accurately ranks coins/tokens based on how much traders and buying a selling using a mathematical algorithms. Coinguide isn't a website that gives investors financial advise on which coin to buy or not, it simply gets the required data from poloniex api processes the data using an algorithm and tells users the coins gaining popularity and those loosing popularity.

For example:

After getting list of all valid coins on poloniex using;

function getAllCoins () {
  /**
      **  Call the poloniex API to get all coins available
      **
      **/
      $coins = file_get_contents('https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnCurrencies');

      // Convert JSOn resource to object
      $coins = json_decode($coins);

      // Convert object to array
      $coins = json_decode(json_encode($coins) , TRUE);

      return $coins;
}

Coinguide loops through the resource from poloniex and makes a request for each coin trade history within a specified time limit via:

https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnTradeHistory&currencyPair=BTC_COIN&start=1410158341&end=1410499372

Assuming

TradeHistory:

For NXT: total_buy_order = 20 and total_sell_order = 40
For ETH: total_buy_order = 70 and total_sell_order = 10

and in 5mins time makes another request and gets the following:

TradeHistory:

For NXT: total_buy_order = 3 and total_sell_order = 70
For ETH: total_buy_order = 120 and total_sell_order = 10

Logically, we can see that Eth is gaining more attention from investors which coinguide will display to users. Also using the algorithm, coinguide will get the % of the trade volume to ascertain the ranks.

Currently the website gets information from poloniex alone using their API. To make sure the website is timely, requests will be made every 5mins.

Technology Stack

PHP
MySQL
Bootstrap

Roadmap

Develop a webapp that accurately fetches data from poloniex using their API and displays the data as detailed as possible
Make accurate rating decisions based on data gotten
Create a graphical representation of the top 20 most popular coins within a specific time range
Expand tool by getting data from other exchanges like Coinbase, kraken, etc.

Images of project so far

fetch coins.png

Proof of Ownership

How to contribute

Contribution is highly welcome. All contributions must come as pull request.

Details are in the readme file

Github Repository

Project code can be found here

Site can be accessed temporarily on

https://coinguide.000webhostapp.com

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Development of coinguide: A cryptocurrency trade guide