CoinMarketCap has wrapped up an independent examination of its market data systems, earning a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation report and completing a separate SOC 1 Type 1 examination. The audits, disclosed this week, are the latest step in the company's effort to prove its security and privacy controls to the wallets, exchanges, and research tools that rely on its price feeds.
Two audits, one goal
The SOC 2 Type 1 report covers controls protecting market data systems, while the SOC 1 Type 1 examination looks at controls tied to financial reporting. Both are point-in-time assessments, meaning they describe the controls as they existed on a specific date. CoinMarketCap says the reports are available to partners and clients on request.
The timing makes sense. The company's data doesn't just feed human traders anymore. It flows into APIs, trading interfaces, and increasingly into AI agents that query it programmatically. Those automated users can't eyeball a chart and call it a day. They need a documented chain of custody for the numbers they're acting on.
ISO credentials already in place
The SOC work builds on a pair of ISO certifications the company picked up in June 2026. It holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for information security management, certificate IS 838849, and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 for privacy information management, certificate PM 838852. Both were awarded by the British Standards Institution and run on a three-year cycle with annual surveillance audits. Both remain active.
The ISO 27701 standard is designed to line up with GDPR and other global privacy rules. That's not a small detail for a company that handles personally identifiable information as part of account management and its mobile apps.
What the audits actually cover
The scope of the assessments stretches from price tracking and market data to cloud systems, API handling, account management, and the iOS and Android apps. In plain terms, that's the full pipeline from raw market data to a user's phone screen.
CoinMarketCap's scale is the reason this matters. The site sees over 1 billion monthly page views and tracks 53 million cryptocurrencies. Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal all cite it as a primary source. When a number moves on that screen, it moves markets. Independent checks on how those numbers get produced and secured are not optional anymore.
The two SOC reports and the ISO pair give CoinMarketCap a defensible answer to the question every serious partner asks: "How do we know your data isn't being tampered with?" The answer is now on paper, audited by outside firms.
Next up is the annual surveillance audit for the ISO certifications. That's the rhythm these things run on. The SOC reports, being Type 1, will need to be refreshed with new examinations at a future date. For now, the paperwork is in order.
