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News, release deep-dives, and multi-language guides from the CCXT team — the open-source library connecting 100+ cryptocurrency exchanges.
Meet CCXT Terminal: the engine you trust, now with a cockpit
The CCXT execution engine now has its own trading interface. Live order book liquidity, raw order flow, and all your exchange accounts in one workspace, on the web today.
CCXT vs everything else: we compared it with every exchange SDK we could find
One page per alternative — CCXT against sixteen multi-exchange libraries, bots and engines, and against the official SDK of all 104 exchanges it supports. Including the venues that turn out to have no SDK at all.
Front-running the S-1: trading the Anthropic-vs-OpenAI IPO race with CCXT
A walk through CCXT's prediction-market API using the binary market "Will Anthropic or OpenAI IPO first?" — reading odds across venues, a tweet-based signal, and cross-venue arbitrage.
How far is your exchange? Mapping crypto API latency around the world
We timed the same fetchOrderBook call to ten venues — spot exchanges, a perps DEX and a prediction market — from eight cities on six continents. It ranges from 6 ms to over a second depending on where you run it. Here's the map.
How fast is CCXT in each of its six languages? We measured every layer
A like-for-like benchmark of CCXT across all six languages — JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go, and Java. Why REST latency tells you almost nothing about a language, what a no-CCXT control run reveals about measuring it, how fast each language really parses an order book, and why the two compiled languages end up the slowest.
Backtest before you bet: pull years of free candles from any exchange
Every exchange gives away its price history through the same CCXT call. How to download years of OHLCV data properly — and the backtesting traps that make losing strategies look like winners.