Verdict
cryptocompare.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 | CryptoCompare is a cryptocurrency information and community portal providing live prices, rankings, market charts, exchange and wallet comparisons, portfolio tools, news, forums, guides, and API services. The page includes account functionality and links to third-party trading platforms but shows no explicit credential harvesting, wallet-key requests, or guaranteed-return claims. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | Archived since 20131727 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
CryptoCompare is an established cryptocurrency information and community portal presenting live prices, rankings, market charts, exchange and wallet comparisons, portfolio tools, news, forums, guides, and API services. Its apparent business model is informational and service-based, supported by market-data access, advertising, sponsored or affiliate content, comparison listings, and community features rather than promised investment returns.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent CryptoCompare identity and informational purpose, with no detected phishing, impersonation, credential harvesting, wallet-key requests, or guaranteed-return claims. Historical continuity and clean external reputation support the conclusion that the site is established rather than a recently repurposed or deceptive property.
- Domain registration: 2013 (~12.75 years old).
- Web archive: 1,727 snapshots spanning 2013–2026 (14 years tracked).
- Homepage analysis found no red flags, suspicious forms, or wallet-drainer behavior.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as CryptoCompare and operates primarily as a market-data, comparison, portfolio, community, and API service. No specific financial license or registration number is claimed in the supplied content; this is a transparency item requiring jurisdiction-specific confirmation, not evidence of impersonation or fraud. The domain’s established registration, reputable registrar, valid TLS, and mainstream hosting infrastructure materially support its identity and operational legitimacy.
- Domain registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.; creation date 2013-11-03T04:49:43Z; expiration date 2028-11-03T05:49:43Z.
- Hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare); provider: CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-09-19T22:09:34+00:00.
- Authority assessment places the site in a high authority band; no matching third-party broker record was identified.
What to Verify Next
For any activity that may fall within regulated financial services, confirm the applicable entity, permissions, and jurisdictional requirements through the relevant official registry. Review the site’s current terms, privacy, commercial-disclosure, and API documentation, and validate external trading destinations through independently sourced channels before relying on referrals or integrations.
- Homepage: account functionality, API access, portfolio tools, and community features are present.
- Homepage: links to third-party trading platforms are identified as part of the user journey.
- Homepage: the captured page returned successfully and exposed no sensitive form or untrusted submission destination.
Summary Verdict
CryptoCompare presents a legitimate, established, high-trust posture with strong convergence across identity, historical continuity, page substance, reputation, and technical integrity. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a mainstream CDN/WAF, and observed addresses are CDN edge endpoints rather than exposed origin infrastructure. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating security control, although protective hosting alone is not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may proceed with normal account login and standard site use, applying ordinary diligence to any external service or regulated activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 cryptocompare.com.
- The request stayed on cryptocompare.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under MarkMonitor Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-11-03. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-11-23. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 104.18.30.136 |
| Name servers | BRIT.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, ELMO.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-19 |
| Domain age | 12.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2028-11-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-11-23 |
| Archive snapshots | 1727 |
| 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 cryptocompare.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.