Crypto Data Site CoinMarketCap Has Gone Offline

The website for popular price aggregator CoinMarketCap appears to be down with all data and news feeds currently inaccessible.

By Paddy Baker

Aug 13, 2020 at 2:51 p.m. UTC

Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 9:43 a.m. UTC

Paddy Baker

Popular crypto data site CoinMarketCap is suffering some sort of outage.

Users started reporting problems at around 14:30 UTC – the entire site, including price and exchange data feeds as well as its news aggregator service, appear to be offline.
CoinMarketCap released data showing the website's response time has slowed significantly in the past hour. The site said it is currently investigating an issue that has made the site "unstable."
CoinMarketCap told CoinDesk the site outage doesn't appear to be a malicious attack.
The spokesperson said it was likely a technical hiccup from the newly-launched CoinMarketCap Earn – a platform for users to earn cryptocurrencies while reading about them on the website.
CoinMarketCap was sold to Binance for a reported $400 million earlier this year; it is one of the most visited websites in the world according to SimilarWeb.
Possibly coincidentally, the website for cryptocurrency exchange HOTBIT has also temporarily shut down – although a message on the site says this is for server maintenance.

UPDATE (Aug 13, 15:30 UTC): This article has been updated with comment from CoinMarketCap.

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