Verdict
coinmarketcap.com appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | CoinMarketCap market listing page showing live prices, market caps, volumes and related crypto data. Offers API, on-chain swap interface and informational resources; primarily an informational/data platform. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
CoinMarketCap is an established cryptocurrency market-data and information platform presenting live and historical prices, market capitalizations, volumes, charts, rankings, indexes, API services, and an on-chain swap interface. Its apparent business model combines informational content with API subscriptions, advertising, partnerships, and product integrations rather than personalized investment advice.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or other contradictory signals were observed. The homepage presents a coherent market-data service with substantial cryptocurrency coverage and no detected fraud indicators, while the site’s established online presence and clean external reputation are consistent with an apparently legitimate platform. This supports normal informational use, although the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage is identified as a cryptocurrency market-data and listings page, with no red flags or brand-impersonation indicators detected.
- External security checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing-site match identified.
- The domain was registered in 2013 and is approximately 13.3 years old.
- The site has a global traffic rank of 2260 and is within the top 1 million sites.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s regulatory position should be treated separately from its strong trust posture. The supplied homepage evidence does not show a claimed license, regulatory authority, or registration number, so the relevant legal status remains a transparency item rather than evidence of misconduct. The available broker-reputation context contains no matching record, but that signal is contextual and does not constitute licensing verification. Identity evidence is consistent with an established website, while independent operator verification remains incomplete.
- Domain registration lists MarkMonitor Inc. as registrar, with creation on 2013-04-28T17:30:25Z and expiration on 2027-04-28T17:30:25Z.
- The site is served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- The transport certificate is issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2027-01-12T23:59:59+00:00.
- The homepage does not present a license claim or license number in the supplied page evidence.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the applicable merchant or operator identity, review the relevant terms and return or dispute provisions, and confirm any claimed regulatory status through the appropriate official registry. Official support and contact channels should also be corroborated through an independent route, and payment methods should provide appropriate transaction protection.
- The homepage provides a login link but no password-entry form was detected during technical inspection.
- The homepage includes an email-subscription form, with no sensitive form or untrusted submission destination detected.
- The site’s stated business model identifies API subscriptions, advertising, partnerships, and product integrations, providing specific commercial relationships to assess in applicable terms or merchant documentation.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. No contradictions were observed, but the available material supports likely rather than independently verified operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The available hosting and transport configuration is consistent with mainstream, validly encrypted web infrastructure. These controls are mitigating technical signals only and do not, by themselves, establish the identity of the organization operating the site.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the available evidence, with independent merchant-identity, policy, payment-protection, and contact-channel checks retained before sensitive account or financial activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=4
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of coinmarketcap.com.
- The request stayed on coinmarketcap.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under MarkMonitor Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-28.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-28. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 52.85.154.85 |
| Name servers | NS-1254.AWSDNS-28.ORG, NS-2024.AWSDNS-61.CO.UK, NS-52.AWSDNS-06.COM, NS-763.AWSDNS-31.NET |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-12 |
| Domain age | 13.30 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-28 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about coinmarketcap.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.