Collecting trade data from crypto exchanges is a nightmare. It takes months to set up the infrastructure and then countless man hours to maintain the infrastructure over time.

Connecting to cryptocurrency exchanges and streaming live order book data is simple with the Shrimpy developer APIs. Every exchange can be accessed in the same way since Shrimpy does the heavy lifting when it comes to collecting data, processing updates, and converting all data to a consistent format.

Historical crypto trade data contains the individual trades that were executed by an exchange over time. Each historical trade contains information about the trading pair, the trade size, the exact time the trade was executed, and the price of the assets being bought or sold.

There is a major issue in the cryptocurrency market. Countless exchanges are operating thousands of trading markets and pumping out billions of data points every day. Although the data is publicly available, nobody has collected, organized, and stored this data in a way that is accessible to developers.