Cryptopia base and quote currency reversed

The symbols Cryptopia uses have a reversed base and quote currency: DOT/BTC

Here you can see the results of a loadMarkets().

"DOT/BTC": {
    "id": 100,
    "symbol": "DOT/BTC",
    "base": "DOT",
    "quote": "BTC",
    "info": {
        "Id": 100,
        "Label": "DOT/BTC",
        "Currency": "Dotcoin",
        "Symbol": "DOT",
        "BaseCurrency": "Bitcoin",
        "BaseSymbol": "BTC",
        "Status": "OK",
        "StatusMessage": null,
        "TradeFee": 0.2,
        "MinimumTrade": 1e-8,
        "MaximumTrade": 100000000,
        "MinimumBaseTrade": 0.00005,
        "MaximumBaseTrade": 100000000,
        "MinimumPrice": 1e-8,
        "MaximumPrice": 100000000
    },
    "maker": 0.002,
    "taker": 0.002
},

base should be BTC.

[rdbr]

Thanks for the fix!

I agree about the base-quote. The crypto market isn’t always consistent with the real stock market. As long as the unified API gives consistent results across the exchanges, I’m fine with that.

[rdbr]

Check out the volumes in your example. baseVolume is in BTC.

'quoteVolume': 245.03618377,
'baseVolume': 18.27058447,

Here is the Cryptopia API GetMarkets:

GetMarkets
Returns all market data
GET https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/api/GetMarkets
Param: baseMarket (optional, default: All)
Param: hours (optional, default: 24)

If you get base BTC markets with https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/api/GetMarkets/BTC you will see the ETH/BTC pair.