# Coinbase API: Get coin overview

> Gets a cryptocurrency's price, 24-hour change, market statistics, popularity, tradability, description and website from its public Coinbase price page.

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- Page: https://fous.com/methods/coinbase.com/get-coin-overview
- Method: `coinbase.com/get_coin_overview`, version 1
- Website: coinbase.com
- Returns: name, symbol, price, 24h change, market cap, volume, supply, all-time high, rank, description, tradability, website
- Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing)
- Sign-in: none needed
- Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free
- Verified: Nov 2, 2026

## Inputs

| Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `coin` | string | yes | `"Solana"` | The cryptocurrency name or ticker symbol, for example Solana or SOL. |
| `currency` | string | no |  | Currency for prices and monetary amounts, for example EUR. Defaults to USD. One of "USD", "EUR", "GBP", "CAD", "INR", "BRL", "SGD", "AUD", "MXN", "ARS". Default "USD". |

## Output

From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input:

```json
{
  "coin": "Solana"
}
```

Its output:

```json
{
  "name": "Solana",
  "price": 104.53,
  "symbol": "SOL",
  "currency": "USD",
  "market_cap": 61641978763.98243,
  "volume_24h": 2139333148.388201,
  "description": "Solana is a decentralized computing platform that uses SOL to pay for transactions. Solana aims to improve blockchain scalability by using a combination of proof of stake consensus and so-called proof of history. As a result, Solana claims to be able to support 50,000 transactions per second without…",
  "popularity_rank": 7,
  "official_website": "https://solana.com/",
  "change_24h_percent": null,
  "circulating_supply": 589653332.2222171,
  "all_time_high_price": 294.845,
  "coinbase_price_page": "https://www.coinbase.com/price/solana",
  "tradable_on_coinbase": true
}
```

## Run it

From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output:

```bash
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"method":"coinbase.com/get_coin_overview","input":{"coin":"Solana"}}'
```

From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`.

## Ask your agent

- What is Solana trading at right now in USD, and how much has it moved in the last 24 hours?
- Give me the current price, market cap, and circulating supply for Bitcoin in euros.
- I need an overview of Dogecoin including its all-time high, market rank, and trading volume on Coinbase.
- What's the 24-hour price change for ETH in British pounds, and is it tradable on Coinbase?
- Can you pull up a description and official website for Cardano, plus its price in Indian rupees?

## Input schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "coin"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "coin": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "The cryptocurrency name or ticker symbol, for example Solana or SOL."
    },
    "currency": {
      "enum": [
        "USD",
        "EUR",
        "GBP",
        "CAD",
        "INR",
        "BRL",
        "SGD",
        "AUD",
        "MXN",
        "ARS"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "USD",
      "description": "Currency for prices and monetary amounts, for example EUR. Defaults to USD."
    }
  }
}
```

## Output schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "name",
    "currency",
    "coinbase_price_page"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "price": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "symbol": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "currency": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "market_cap": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "volume_24h": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "description": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "popularity_rank": {
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "official_website": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "change_24h_percent": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "circulating_supply": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "all_time_high_price": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "coinbase_price_page": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "tradable_on_coinbase": {
      "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## See more

- [Coinbase API: Get coin price](https://fous.com/methods/coinbase.com/get-coin-price.md): Looks up a cryptocurrency's current Coinbase spot, buy and sell prices in a chosen currency.
- [CoinMarketCap API: Get coin price](https://fous.com/methods/coinmarketcap.com/get-coin-price.md): Gets a cryptocurrency's price, changes, supply, market cap, volume and all-time high in a chosen currency. If a name or symbol is shared, returns the coin with the largest market cap.
- [Binance API: Get coin price](https://fous.com/methods/binance.com/get-coin-price.md): Gets a Binance spot pair's latest price and rolling 24-hour trading statistics from a coin name or symbol. Only currently trading pairs are available.
- [Kraken API: Get coin price](https://fous.com/methods/kraken.com/get-coin-price.md): Gets a coin's current Kraken price, bid and ask, and 24-hour trading statistics in a chosen currency, with change since today's midnight UTC open.
- [CoinGecko API: Get coin price history](https://fous.com/methods/coingecko.com/get-coin-price-history.md): Gets a coin's daily prices and price change over the last 7, 30, 90 or 365 days, with UTC dates. Today's price may change.
- [CoinGecko API: Get coin price on date](https://fous.com/methods/coingecko.com/get-coin-price-on-date.md): Gets a coin's price, market cap and 24-hour volume at 00:00 UTC on a past date. Non-USD currencies are available only for the last 365 days.
- [Binance API: Get price history](https://fous.com/methods/binance.com/get-price-history.md): Gets Binance spot price candles for a coin and quote currency, newest by default or within a UTC date range, up to 1,000 candles.
- [Binance API: Get order book](https://fous.com/methods/binance.com/get-order-book.md): Gets the current bid and ask price levels for a Binance spot pair from a coin name or symbol, with the spread.
- [All Coinbase methods](https://fous.com/methods/coinbase.com.md)
