The price of the native coin from BNB Chain (formerly BSC) grew by 50 percent in late 2021 but was much lower in 2022. On May 4, 2025, for example, a single BNB coin was worth more than 586.00 U.S. dollars - a value that very different from the all-time high of 600 U.S. dollars in November 2021. Regardless, Binance Coin ranked in the top 10 most expensive cryptocurrencies in 2022. Noticeable is that the price increase of BNB in November 2021 coincides with a similar price change for Ethereum (ETH) - a cryptocurrency where BNB initially originated in 2017 before coming to its own years later. BNB’s history: From reward token in 2017 to an ecosystem after 2019 As the name suggests, Binance Coin or BNB originally started as an extension of the Binance.com trading platform - the most used cryptocurrency exchange in the world. It initially functioned on the Ethereum blockchain network as an ERC-20 token, offering incentives to owners like reduced trading fees, affiliate rewards, or a lottery ticket system (“Launchpad”) that let users invest in new, Binance-selected crypto projects. In 2019, however, BNB moved away from the Ethereum network and migrated to Binance’s self-developed blockchain: Binance Smart Chain or BSC (called BNB Chain since February 2022). Here, BNB started to support a chain that initially did not focus on hosting decentralized apps but focused on high transaction speed and being able to handle large amounts of traffic. DeFi and GameFi: the main segments for BNB BSC, however, made significant strides in 2021 partly due to traffic overload and high gas prices on Ethereum as well as the growing interest in both Decentralized Finance (DeFI) and NFTs. Much like Cardano, Solana, and Terra, Binance Smart Chain consequently became a valid alternative to Ethereum: The total value locked (TVL) of BNBs blockchain within DeFi, for example, ranked only behind that of Terra and Ethereum in early 2022. Another area where Binance’s blockchain and token play a significant role is that of GameFi - or “play-to-earn” blockchain games that are powered by cryptocurrencies. Some of the more well-known and most popular NFT games like Alien Worlds and Axie Infinity run on the blockchain behind BNB.

In 2021 Binance's cryptocurrency reached a market cap of more than 90 billion U.S. dollars twice, after being worth less than 7 billion in 2020. Indeed, the digital coin's market cap rally in 2021 places it in the top three of cryptocurrencies with the highest market cap. The latest increase follows after the BNB price increased due to speculation that the demand for the coin would increase as Binance created a one billion U.S. dollar fund for new DeFi (decentralized finance) applications to be built within their own blockchain - called Binance Smart Chain or BSC.

Context

In the last few days, I have been hearing a lot of buzz around cryptocurrencies. Things like Block chain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple etc are constantly coming in the news articles I read. So I wanted to understand more about it and this post helped me get started. Once the basics are done, the DS guy sleeping inside me (always lazy.!) woke up and started raising questions like

1. How many such cryptocurrencies are there and what are their prices and valuations?
2. Why is there a sudden surge in the interest in recent days? Is it due to the increase in the price in the last few days? etc.

For getting answers to all these questions (and if possible to predict the future prices ;)), I started getting the data from coinmarketcap about the cryptocurrencies.

Content

This dataset has the historical price information of some of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The currencies included are

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Ripple
• Bitcoin cash
• Bitconnect
• Dash
• Ethereum Classic
• Iota
• Litecoin
• Monero
• Nem
• Neo
• Numeraire
• Stratis
• Waves

In case if you are interested in the prices of some other currencies, please post in comments section and I will try to add them in the next version. I am planning to revise it once in a week.

Dataset has one csv file for each currency. Price history is available on a daily basis from April 28, 2013 till Aug 07, 2017. The columns in the csv file are

• Date : date of observation
• Open : Opening price on the given day
• High : Highest price on the given day
• Low : Lowest price on the given day
• Close : Closing price on the given day
• Volume : Volume of transactions on the given day
• Market Cap : Market capitalization in USD

Acknowledgements

This data is taken from coinmarketcap and it is free to use the data.

Cover Image : Photo by Thomas Malama on Unsplash

Inspiration

Some of the questions which could be inferred from this dataset are:

1. How did the historical prices / market capitalizations of various currencies change over time?
2. Predicting the future price of the currencies
3. Which currencies are more volatile and which ones are more stable?
4. How does the price fluctuations of currencies correlate with each other?
5. Seasonal trend in the price fluctuations

The trading level of Binance Coin in November 2021 was not as high as it was in April and, especially, February 2021. This sudden increase in early 2021 occured as Binance's blockchain called BSC - Binance Smart Chain - was seen as a cheaper alternative in a time when the transaction fees (gas prices) of Ethereum increased. Binance Coin or BNB essentially functions as a fuel for this BSC blockchain, a place where people can create smart contracts or decentralized finance (DeFi) apps. Binance Smart Chain ranked as the second-most important blockchain for Decentralized Finance, behind Ethereum and ahead of Solana.

BNB Card Ang pagsubaybay sa kasaysayan ng presyo ay nagbibigay-daan sa mga crypto investor na madaling masubaybayan ang performance ng kanilang pamumuhunan. Maginhawa mong masusubaybayan ang opening value, high, at close sa BNB Card sa paglipas ng panahon, pati na rin ang trade volume. Bukod pa rito, maaari mong agad na tingnan ang pang-araw-araw na pagbabago bilang isang porsyento, na ginagawang effortless na tukuyin ang mga araw na may significant fluctuations. Ayon sa aming data ng history ng presyo ng BNB Card, tumaas ang halaga nito sa hindi pa naganap na peak sa 2025-03-21, na lumampas sa $0.01877 USD. Sa kabilang banda, ang pinakamababang punto sa trajectory ng presyo ni BNB Card, na karaniwang tinutukoy bilang "BNB Card all-time low", ay naganap noong 2025-03-18. Kung ang isa ay bumili ng BNB Card sa panahong iyon, kasalukuyan silang masisiyahan sa isang kahanga-hangang kita na 902%. Sa pamamagitan ng disenyo, ang 1,000,000,000 BNB Card ay malilikha. Sa ngayon, ang circulating supply ng BNB Card ay tinatayang 1,000,000,000. Ang lahat ng mga presyong nakalista sa pahinang ito ay nakuha mula sa Bitget, galing sa isang reliable source. Napakahalagang umasa sa iisang pinagmulan upang suriin ang iyong mga investment, dahil maaaring mag-iba ang mga halaga sa iba't ibang nagbebenta. Kasama sa aming makasaysayang BNB Card dataset ng presyo ang data sa pagitan ng 1 minuto, 1 araw, 1 linggo, at 1 buwan (bukas/mataas/mababa/close/volume). Ang mga dataset na ito ay sumailalim sa mahigpit na pagsubok upang matiyak ang consistency, pagkakumpleto, at accurancy. Ang mga ito ay partikular na idinisenyo para sa trade simulation at mga layunin ng backtesting, madaling magagamit para sa libreng pag-download, at na-update sa real-time.

Cryptocurrency historical datasets from January 2012 (if available) to October 2021 were obtained and integrated from various sources and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including Yahoo Finance, Cryptodownload, CoinMarketCap, various Kaggle datasets, and multiple APIs. While these datasets used various formats of time (e.g., minutes, hours, days), in order to integrate the datasets days format was used for in this research study. The integrated cryptocurrency historical datasets for 80 cryptocurrencies including but not limited to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), Tether (USDT), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), USD Coin (USDC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Tron (TRX), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS), Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), Uniswap (UNI), Terra (LUNA), SHIBA INU (SHIB), and 60 more cryptocurrencies were uploaded in this online Mendeley data repository. Although the primary attribute of including the mentioned cryptocurrencies was the Market Capitalization, a subject matter expert i.e., a professional trader has also guided the initial selection of the cryptocurrencies by analyzing various indicators such as Relative Strength Index (RSI), Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD), MYC Signals, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Retracement, Stochastic Oscillator and Ichimoku Cloud. The primary features of this dataset that were used as the decision-making criteria of the CLUS-MCDA II approach are Timestamps, Open, High, Low, Closed, Volume (Currency), % Change (7 days and 24 hours), Market Cap and Weighted Price values. The available excel and CSV files in this data set are just part of the integrated data and other databases, datasets and API References that was used in this study are as follows: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/ [2] https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/ [3] https://cryptodatadownload.com/ [4] https://kaggle.com/philmohun/cryptocurrency-financial-data [5] https://kaggle.com/deepshah16/meme-cryptocurrency-historical-data [6] https://kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/cryptocurrencypricehistory [7] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=BTC&tsyms=USD [8] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/ [9] https://p.nomics.com/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-api [10] https://www.coinapi.io/ [11] https://www.coingecko.com/en/api [12] https://cryptowat.ch/ [13] https://www.alphavantage.co/ This dataset is part of the CLUS-MCDA (Cluster analysis for improving Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) and CLUS-MCDAII Project: https://aimaghsoodi.github.io/CLUSMCDA-R-Package/ https://github.com/Aimaghsoodi/CLUS-MCDA-II https://github.com/azadkavian/CLUS-MCDA

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Swedish Krona data was reported at 1.783 10 SEK/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.803 10 SEK/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Swedish Krona data is updated monthly, averaging 2.087 10 SEK/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.403 10 SEK/BGN in Apr 2000 and a record low of 1.651 10 SEK/BGN in Aug 2023. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Swedish Krona data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: US Dollar data was reported at 1.720 USD/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.808 USD/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: US Dollar data is updated monthly, averaging 1.667 USD/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.324 USD/BGN in Oct 2000 and a record low of 1.237 USD/BGN in Mar 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: US Dollar data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Euro data was reported at 1.956 EUR/BGN in Apr 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.956 EUR/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Euro data is updated monthly, averaging 1.956 EUR/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.956 EUR/BGN in Apr 2025 and a record low of 1.956 EUR/BGN in Apr 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Euro data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates. Ever since 1997 the BGN has been pegged to the EUR at a fixed rate of 1.95583.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Canadian Dollar data was reported at 1.244 CAD/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.259 CAD/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Canadian Dollar data is updated monthly, averaging 1.333 CAD/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.589 CAD/BGN in Jul 2012 and a record low of 1.129 CAD/BGN in Dec 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Canadian Dollar data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Russian Rouble data was reported at 1.669 100 RUB/BGN in Mar 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.694 100 RUB/BGN for Feb 2022. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Russian Rouble data is updated monthly, averaging 4.302 100 RUB/BGN from May 2005 (Median) to Mar 2022, with 203 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.861 100 RUB/BGN in Feb 2006 and a record low of 1.669 100 RUB/BGN in Mar 2022. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Russian Rouble data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Turkish Lira data was reported at 0.447 10 TRY/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.477 10 TRY/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Turkish Lira data is updated monthly, averaging 6.573 10 TRY/BGN from Jan 2005 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 244 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.549 10 TRY/BGN in Feb 2006 and a record low of 0.447 10 TRY/BGN in Apr 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Turkish Lira data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Malaysian Ringgit data was reported at 3.985 10 MYR/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4.075 10 MYR/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Malaysian Ringgit data is updated monthly, averaging 4.196 10 MYR/BGN from May 2005 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 240 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.086 10 MYR/BGN in Jul 2012 and a record low of 3.797 10 MYR/BGN in Jun 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Malaysian Ringgit data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Hong Kong Dollar data was reported at 2.217 10 HKD/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.325 10 HKD/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Hong Kong Dollar data is updated monthly, averaging 2.120 10 HKD/BGN from Nov 2000 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 294 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.957 10 HKD/BGN in May 2001 and a record low of 1.589 10 HKD/BGN in Mar 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Hong Kong Dollar data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Chinese Yuan Renminbi data was reported at 2.367 10 RMB/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.493 10 RMB/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Chinese Yuan Renminbi data is updated monthly, averaging 2.469 10 RMB/BGN from May 2005 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 240 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.932 10 RMB/BGN in Mar 2015 and a record low of 1.764 10 RMB/BGN in Mar 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Chinese Yuan Renminbi data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Czech Koruna data was reported at 7.848 100 CZK/BGN in Apr 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 7.835 100 CZK/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Czech Koruna data is updated monthly, averaging 7.375 100 CZK/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.326 100 CZK/BGN in Mar 2023 and a record low of 5.334 100 CZK/BGN in Jul 1999. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Czech Koruna data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Danish Krone data was reported at 2.620 10 DKK/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.621 10 DKK/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Danish Krone data is updated monthly, averaging 2.625 10 DKK/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.634 10 DKK/BGN in Apr 2003 and a record low of 2.617 10 DKK/BGN in Jan 2020. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Danish Krone data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: British Pound data was reported at 2.296 GBP/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.341 GBP/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: British Pound data is updated monthly, averaging 2.358 GBP/BGN from Jul 1999 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 310 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.376 GBP/BGN in Apr 2000 and a record low of 2.008 GBP/BGN in Dec 2008. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: British Pound data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Singaporean Dollar data was reported at 1.316 SGD/BGN in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.347 SGD/BGN for Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Singaporean Dollar data is updated monthly, averaging 1.205 SGD/BGN from Nov 2000 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 294 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.400 SGD/BGN in Aug 2022 and a record low of 0.879 SGD/BGN in Dec 2004. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Singaporean Dollar data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.

Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Indonesian Rupiah data was reported at 1.087 10TH IDR/BGN in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.135 10TH IDR/BGN for Feb 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Indonesian Rupiah data is updated monthly, averaging 1.307 10TH IDR/BGN from May 2005 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 239 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.794 10TH IDR/BGN in Feb 2006 and a record low of 1.087 10TH IDR/BGN in Mar 2025. Bulgaria Foreign Exchange Rate: BNB: Indonesian Rupiah data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bulgarian National Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bulgaria – Table BG.M007: Foreign Exchange Rates.