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Product updates, engineering notes, and guides from the CurrencyCore team.
What $100 Buys Around the World: Purchasing Power Parity, Visualized
A plain-English guide to Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) — what it is, why $100 stretches further in some countries, and an interactive world map showing how far $100 goes everywhere.
CurrencyCore Team Read
The Currency Conversion Glossary: 24 FX Terms Every Developer Should Know
A clear, jargon-free glossary of exchange-rate and currency-conversion terms — base currency, mid-market rate, spread, PPP, triangulation, ISO 4217, and more.
CurrencyCore Team Read
Mid-Market Rate vs. the Rate You Actually Get
Why the exchange rate your bank or app gives you is worse than the one on Google — what the mid-market rate is, how spreads and markups work, and how to build on a fair reference rate.
CurrencyCore Team Read
Local pricing with PPP adjustment
How to use Purchasing Power Parity to charge fair, market-appropriate prices for every country — with a real example using CurrencyCore.
CurrencyCore Team Read
Introducing CurrencyCore
We built an edge-native currency and PPP API because we were tired of slow, opaque exchange rate services. Here's why.
CurrencyCore Team Read