{"id":86411,"date":"2023-10-31T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86411"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:25:25","slug":"ergo-team-accuses-coinmarketcap-of-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ergo-team-accuses-coinmarketcap-of-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergo team accuses CoinMarketCap of extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinMarketCap is demanding payment for making changes to an asset page on its site. The Ergo blockchain platform team said so.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoinMarketCap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CoinMarketCap<\/a>,<br \/>After over a year of requests attempting to get the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ergo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ergo<\/a> information corrected (circulating supply), we were presented with the following path forward in the attached screenshot. <\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coingecko?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@coingecko<\/a> has no issue verifying the authenticity of our\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cRRmavX9qh\">pic.twitter.com\/cRRmavX9qh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ergo (@ergo_platform) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ergo_platform\/status\/1719163379380629540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Ergo blockchain platform team said so.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, they contacted the service administration with a request to correct information about the coin&#8217;s circulating supply.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a CoinMarketCap representative sent a form which, among other things, included a clause demanding payment of an invoice for $5000.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Ergo questioned the data&#8217;s timeliness from the aggregator.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has not yet been commented on by CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, representatives of SaTT and TokenBot accused CoinMarketCap of conducting <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinmarketcap-accused-of-conducting-fake-airdrops\">fake airdrops<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In particular, they pointed to potential manipulation of the system, noting that the assets used to raise awareness about the projects were, instead of being distributed among thousands of users, sent to a limited number of addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinMarketCap is demanding payment for making changes to an asset on its site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1000],"class_list":["post-86411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinmarketcap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86413,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions\/86413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}