# List currencies by market cap

`GET https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/exchange/currencies`

Part of [Exchanges](https://www.cryptohopper.com/api-documentation/api-reference/exchanges.md) in the Cryptohopper API reference.

Returns market data for currencies ordered by market cap rank: price, 24h high, low and change, market cap, volume and a weekly price series. Also returns the total market cap and 24h volume of all tracked currencies.

OAuth scope: `read`

total is the number of currencies in this response, not the number of tracked currencies.

## Headers

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `access-token` | string | yes | The OAuth access token of the user. |

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `start` | string | no | Offset in the list, default 0. |
| `limit` | string | no | Number of currencies to return, default 50, maximum 500. |

## Example request

```bash
curl "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/exchange/currencies" \
  -H "access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```

## Response

Example response (illustrative values):

```json
{
    "data": {
        "start": 0,
        "limit": 50,
        "data": [
            {
                "name": "Bitcoin",
                "symbol": "BTC",
                "icon": "https://cdn.cryptohopper.com/images/exchange/currencies/svg/BTC.svg",
                "high_24h": "64250.1200000000",
                "low_24h": "62010.5500000000",
                "price_usd": "1.00000000",
                "price_change_24h": "1150.2000000000",
                "percent_change_24h": "1.85",
                "weekly_prices": null,
                "market_cap_usd": "1250000000000.00",
                "volume_usd_24h": "32000000000.00",
                "rank": "1"
            }
        ],
        "total": 1,
        "total_market_cap": "2450000000000.00",
        "total_volume_24h": "98000000000.00"
    }
}
```

Status codes: 200. Errors return JSON with `status`, `error` and `message`, plus a numeric `code` when the error comes from the API itself rather than the gateway.