USDi MCP Server (v1)

A Python MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets any MCP-compatible agent — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or other MCP clients — query USDi directly instead of scraping web pages.

v1 scope (core only)

• get_usdi_exchange_rate — live on-chain exchange rate via getExchangeRate()

• get_usdi_contract_info — network, token contract, pool address, issuer/fund manager, disambiguation from "Interest Protocol"

• get_usdi_mint_redeem_info — valuation mechanism, backing, retail/institutional mint-redeem process, risk note

Deferred to a later version: liquidity/pool depth (Uniswap V3 QuoterV2), fund composition detail, audit document retrieval.

Related MCP server: @praveen030686/data-apis-mcp

Setup

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate          # on Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Set your RPC endpoint. Using Alchemy (matches your existing infra):

export ALCHEMY_API_KEY="your-alchemy-key"

Or point at any Ethereum JSON-RPC endpoint directly:

export RPC_URL="https://your-rpc-endpoint"

Run it standalone (sanity check)

python3 server.py

This starts an HTTP server on port 8000 (override with PORT), speaking MCP's streamable-http transport at /mcp. It's not a page you visit in a browser — it's a JSON-RPC endpoint MCP clients POST to. Ctrl+C to stop.

You do not need this for your own local Claude Desktop — this transport is specifically for making USDi reachable by other people's agents over the network. (If you ever also want it available to your own local Claude Desktop, that's a separate, simpler stdio config — ask if you want that added back as an option.)

Getting found by third-party agentic finance agents

This is two separate steps: hosting, then listing.

1. Host it: deploying to Render (recommended — no card, no billing risk)

Render's free tier requires no credit card and has hard resource caps rather than usage-based billing — it cannot surprise-bill you, because there's no billing account attached until you explicitly choose to upgrade. This scaffold includes render.yaml alongside the same Dockerfile.

# No CLI install needed — Render deploys from a Git repo.
# 1. Push this usdi_mcp_server/ folder to a GitHub repo.
# 2. In the Render dashboard: New -> Blueprint -> connect that repo.
#    Render will read render.yaml automatically.
# 3. Set ALCHEMY_API_KEY in the Render dashboard's environment variables
#    (render.yaml intentionally leaves it unset so the key never sits in
#    a file you might commit).
# 4. Deploy.

That gives you a public https://usdi-mcp.onrender.com/mcp endpoint — free, TLS-terminated. Trade-off: the free plan spins the service down after 15 minutes of inactivity; the next request wakes it, with roughly 30-60 seconds of added latency on that first call. For an endpoint agents query occasionally rather than continuously, that's a reasonable price for zero financial exposure. If cold starts become a problem once this sees real traffic, Render's paid tier removes spin-down for $7/month — but that's a decision to make once you can see actual usage, not before.

Custom domain: once deployed, add mcp.usdicoin.com as a custom domain in the Render dashboard and point a CNAME at the .onrender.com address it gives you — agents and registries will trust usdicoin.com's own domain more than a third-party one.

Note: I don't have Docker available to fully build-test this image in this environment — the Dockerfile is a standard minimal Python setup and the server script itself is verified working (streamable-http handshake tested locally), but build it locally yourself before deploying to catch anything environment-specific.

fly.toml is still included in this scaffold if you change your mind later. The reason it's not the primary recommendation: Fly requires a card on file and, per their own docs, does not support hard billing caps or even billing alerts — a prepaid-credit balance can roll straight into automatic billing once exhausted rather than stopping. Fine for infra you're actively monitoring; not a fit for a "set it up and don't think about it" public endpoint. If you ever do want it (e.g. for lower latency across regions), the steps from earlier in this project still apply: fly launch --no-deploy, fly secrets set, fly deploy.

2. List it where agents and their builders look

As of mid-2026 the registries that matter for MCP discovery are: mcp.so, smithery.ai, glama.ai/mcp, and the punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers GitHub list (submitted via pull request). Submitting to all four is the current going advice — beyond that, returns diminish fast and a listing with a dead link costs more trust than it's worth, so only submit once the hosted URL is actually stable.

Each wants roughly the same metadata: server name, one-line description, the public endpoint URL, transport type (streamable-http), and a contact/maintainer link — worth preparing once and reusing across all four submissions.

3. Cross-link it from llms.txt

Once hosted, add a line to usdicoin.com/llms.txt pointing at the MCP endpoint directly — agents that already read llms.txt for background on an asset will then have a direct, structured path to the live tools instead of just the prose description. Say the word and I'll add that section to the file we already built.

⚠️ Before trusting the exchange rate output

RATE_DECIMALS in server.py is currently set to 18 — the common 18-decimal fixed-point convention. This is an assumption, not a confirmed fact about USDi's contract. If getExchangeRate() actually returns a value scaled differently (e.g. 8 decimals, or a raw CPI-index-style number like 315605), the reported rate will be off by a power of ten. Check this against a known-good rate (e.g. cross-reference against the Uniswap pool price) before relying on it, and adjust RATE_DECIMALS accordingly.

Wiring into Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usdi": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/venv/bin/python3",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/usdi_mcp_server/server.py"],
      "env": {
        "ALCHEMY_API_KEY": "your-alchemy-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop afterward. USDi's three tools should then appear available to Claude in any conversation.

Next steps (v2 candidates)

• Add Uniswap V3 QuoterV2 calls for live liquidity depth / slippage estimates

• Expose fund backing composition and audit status as a tool once there's a machine-readable source for it (currently that lives in PDFs/prose)

• Consider a hosted (not just local stdio) deployment so third-party agents — not just your own Claude Desktop — can reach it, e.g. via the same MCP-over-HTTP pattern used by hosted connectors