# Coindesk

> Leading the story on the future of money

CoinDesk is a media outlet that covers the cryptocurrency industry.

CoinDesk is a news website that focuses on cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and digital finance. It offers analysis, data, and insights on market trends, crypto regulations, and innovations in the blockchain space. CoinDesk also hosts events, including the annual Consensus conference.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Media
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2013-05-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/coindesk

## Products

- [Coindesk](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coindesk): The news website from Coindesk. One of the longest standing media and news sites in Crypto.  (News & Media, Live, Main Product)
- [Consensus](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coindesk): The Consensus conference, organized by CoinDesk, is an annual event that gathers professionals from the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. It focuses on discussions about current trends, technological developments, and regulatory issues within the digital finance industry. (Events & Conferences, Live)
- [CoinDesk Indices](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coindesk): CoinDesk Indices is a digital asset index administrator that provides regulated benchmark indices and reference rates for the cryptocurrency market. The product offers multi-asset indices across broad market, thematic, and dynamic categories, including the CoinDesk 20, CoinDesk 5, CoinDesk 80, and CoinDesk 100 families, along with single-asset reference rates such as the Bitcoin Price Index (XBX) and the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR). These indices serve as benchmarks for exchange-traded products, derivatives, and structured products managed by third-party asset managers and exchanges globally. CoinDesk Indices is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and its indices comply with EU Benchmark Regulation requirements. (Index Platform, Live)
- [CoinDesk Data](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coindesk): CoinDesk Data is a digital asset market data service that delivers real-time and historical trade, derivatives, order book, and on-chain data to institutional users through REST API and WebSocket connections. The platform aggregates and normalizes data from multiple centralized and decentralized exchanges, covering thousands of digital assets and trading pairs, with historical records available from 2010. CoinDesk Data also publishes the Exchange Benchmark, a research report evaluating digital asset exchanges across qualitative and quantitative metrics. (Pricing Data API, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.coindesk.com)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/coindesk)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/coindesk)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/coindesk)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/coindesk)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@coindesk)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/tRuUMkkQd9)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/CoinDeskGlobal)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/coindeskdata)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindeskdata)

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