Bit2Me MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to interact with the Bit2Me ecosystem. This server allows AI assistants like Claude to access real-time market data, manage wallets, execute trading operations, and query products like Earn and Loans.

For more information, visit: https://mcp.bit2me.com

Bit2Me is a leading cryptocurrency exchange based in Spain, offering a wide range of services including trading, staking (Earn), and loans. This MCP server acts as a bridge, enabling LLMs to perform actions and retrieve data securely from your Bit2Me account.

🚀 Features

• General: Asset information, account details, portfolio valuation, and self-introspection (general_describe_tool returns description, schema, and examples for an enabled tool — useful for LLMs encountering a tool for the first time).

• Wallet Management: Query balances, transactions, and wallet (Pockets) details.

• Pro Trading: Manage orders (Limit, Market, Stop), query open orders, and transfer funds between Wallet and Pro.

• Earn & Loans: Manage Earn (Staking) strategies and collateralized loans.

• Operations: Execute trades, transfers, and withdrawals securely.

• Write safeguards: Irreversible writes (Pro / Earn / Loan / broker_confirm_quote) first return a needs_confirmation preview unless confirm is the boolean true. Broker quote tools (broker_quote_*) do not require confirm. The preview includes the stamped idempotency_key so a retry reuses it. Failed POST/DELETE calls retry with exponential backoff + jitter when that key is present.

• Category allow-list: Optional BIT2ME_ENABLED_CATEGORIES (comma-separated: general, broker, wallet, pro, earn, loan) filters tools/list and dispatch. Unset = all. An unknown id is a startup/parse error.

• MCP tool annotations: tools/list exposes hints from type in data/tools.json — readOnlyHint on READ/META, destructiveHint on irreversible WRITE (not broker_quote_*), idempotentHint on cancel-order tools.

• structuredContent: Tool results include a structuredContent object alongside the existing text JSON (the text payload is unchanged).

• Resources: bit2me://health, bit2me://server, and bit2me://catalog (enabled tools; no Bit2Me I/O). Same catalogue on stdio and HTTP resources/list / resources/read.

• Decimal Precision: Portfolio valuation uses decimal.js — no floating-point drift on large balances or high-precision assets.

• Expanded PII Redaction: Logs automatically scrub email addresses, IBANs, phone numbers, KYC fields, JWT-shaped tokens, and long base64 blobs, in addition to API keys and signatures.

• Monotonic Nonces: API-key signing uses a strictly-increasing nonce counter, preventing replay attacks even under high concurrency.

• Audit Log: Every write tool (order creation, withdrawals, earn deposits, loan operations, …) appends a tamper-evident JSON line on both success and failure. Set AUDIT_LOG_PATH to write to a dedicated file; otherwise audit lines are emitted via the logger with audit: true.

• Parametrized Prompts: analyze_portfolio and market_summary accept arguments. Extra prompts: tax_report, dca_plan, loan_health_check, and confirm_write (optional tool argument) for irreversible writes.

Related MCP server: MCP Bitnovo Pay

🛠️ Available Tools & API Endpoints

The server currently exposes 48 tools grouped as follows:

• 4 General tools (including general_describe_tool for self-introspection)

• 8 Broker (Simple Trading) tools — includes wallet_get_cards (Bit2Me Teller). It stays in broker so the allow-list id does not change.

• 4 Wallet tools

• 14 Pro Trading tools

• 11 Earn (Staking) tools

• 7 Loan tools

Full descriptions, response schemas, Bit2Me REST endpoints and usage notes live in TOOLS_DOCUMENTATION.md.

📋 Documentation & Schemas

All tool responses are normalised for LLM consumption (consistent naming, flattened payloads, concise metadata). Use the following references when developing new tooling:

• docs/README.md – Map of every canonical doc (what to edit vs what is generated).

• TOOLS_DOCUMENTATION.md – Auto-generated catalogue (pnpm build:docs from data/tools.json).

• data/tools.json – Source of truth for tool metadata, schemas and examples.

⚙️ Installation and Configuration

Prerequisites

• Node.js: v20 or higher.

• Bit2Me Account: You need a verified Bit2Me account.

🔑 Authentication Methods

API Keys (Recommended)

The recommended way to authenticate is using API Keys. This method is secure, granular, and designed for programmatic access.

1. Go to your Bit2Me API Dashboard.

2. Click on "New Key".

3. Select the permissions you need (e.g., Wallets, Trading, Earn, Loans).

   ⚠️ Security Note: This MCP server does NOT support crypto withdrawals to external blockchain addresses or transfers to other users. For security best practices, please DO NOT enable "Withdrawal" permissions on your API Key. Internal transfers between your own Bit2Me wallets (Wallet ↔ Pro ↔ Earn) are fully supported.

JWT Session Token (Alternative)

All tools accept an optional jwt argument (session cookie toward Bit2Me). Typical local use does not need it.

• stdio / Claude Desktop: prefer API keys in .env. jwt is only for a one-off session token.

• HTTP binary: send Authorization: Bearer <jwt> (or API-key headers) per request — see ADR 0001.

When jwt is provided on a stdio call (and HTTP has not already authenticated the request), the server uses session-cookie auth toward Bit2Me instead of the process API keys.

// Example: optional session token on a tool call
const result = await mcpClient.callTool("wallet_get_pockets", {
    symbol: "BTC",
    jwt: "user_session_token_here", // omitted → API keys from the environment
});

Note: For local Claude Desktop / Cursor, API keys in .env are enough. Per-request JWT or API-key headers belong to the HTTP binary (bit2me-mcp-http). See docs/adr/0001-valet-key-http-credentials.md and the documentation map.

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/bit2me-devs/bit2me-mcp.git
   cd bit2me-mcp

2. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install

3. Configure environment variables: Create a .env file in the root directory:

   cp .env.example .env

   Edit .env and add your keys:

   BIT2ME_API_KEY=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_KEY
   BIT2ME_API_SECRET=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_SECRET
   
   # Optional Configuration
   BIT2ME_GATEWAY_URL=https://gateway.bit2me.com  # Must be HTTPS (localhost/127.x are exempt)
   BIT2ME_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=30000     # Request timeout in ms (default: 30000)
   BIT2ME_MAX_RETRIES=3             # Max retries for rate limits (default: 3)
   BIT2ME_RETRY_BASE_DELAY=1000     # Base delay for backoff in ms (default: 1000)
   BIT2ME_LOG_LEVEL=info            # Log level: debug, info, warn, error (default: info)
   LOG_FORMAT=json                  # Optional: "json" for log aggregators; default is human-readable
   # AUDIT_LOG_PATH=/var/log/bit2me-mcp/audit.log  # Append-only write-tool audit log
   # BIT2ME_ENABLED_CATEGORIES=wallet,broker,general  # Optional allow-list; unset = all

   💡 QA/Staging: Use BIT2ME_GATEWAY_URL to point to different environments (e.g., https://qa-gateway.bit2me.com for QA testing).

   🔒 File permissions: The .env file holds API credentials. Restrict it to the owner only:

   chmod 600 .env

   A pre-commit hook (.husky/check-env-perms.sh) prints a warning when the local .env mode is more permissive than 600.

4. Build the project:

   pnpm run build

🖥️ Usage with Claude Desktop

To use this server with the Claude Desktop application, add the following configuration to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

MacOS

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows

%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bit2me": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": ["/absolute/path/to/bit2me-mcp/build/index.js"],
            "env": {
                "BIT2ME_API_KEY": "YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_KEY",
                "BIT2ME_API_SECRET": "YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_SECRET"
            }
        }
    }
}

Note: Replace /absolute/path/to/... with the actual full path to your project.

Using a Custom Gateway (QA/Staging)

For testing against different environments, add the BIT2ME_GATEWAY_URL variable:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bit2me": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": ["/absolute/path/to/bit2me-mcp/build/index.js"],
            "env": {
                "BIT2ME_API_KEY": "YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_KEY",
                "BIT2ME_API_SECRET": "YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_SECRET",
                "BIT2ME_GATEWAY_URL": "https://qa-gateway.bit2me.com"
            }
        }
    }
}

🛡️ Security

Security Policy

For detailed information about reporting vulnerabilities and our security policy, please see SECURITY.md.

Best Practices

• API Keys: Never commit API keys to version control. The pre-commit hook runs gitleaks (if installed) to block accidental secret commits.

• Permissions: Use minimal permissions. Avoid "Withdrawal" permissions for MCP usage.

• HTTPS Gateway: BIT2ME_GATEWAY_URL is validated at startup — only https:// URLs are accepted. Plain http:// is rejected except for localhost / 127.x addresses (local development only).

• Monotonic Nonces: API-key signing uses a strictly-increasing nonce counter so concurrent requests cannot generate replay-vulnerable signatures.

• Expanded PII Redaction: The logger scrubs API keys, signatures, JWTs, emails, IBANs, phone numbers, KYC fields, and long base64 blobs before writing any line to stderr.

• Audit Log: Every write tool appends an append-only JSON entry (tool name, sanitised args, outcome, correlation ID, SHA-256 fingerprint of the session token — never the token itself). Set AUDIT_LOG_PATH to persist to a file.

⚠️ Rate Limits & Error Handling

The Bit2Me API enforces rate limits to ensure stability.

• 429 Too Many Requests: The client retries with exponential backoff and full jitter (BIT2ME_RETRY_BASE_DELAY, default 1000 ms, up to BIT2ME_MAX_RETRIES).

• Console Warnings: You may see warnings in the logs if rate limits are hit.

• Best Practice: Avoid asking for massive amounts of data in a very short loop.

📊 Logging

The server implements a structured logging system that automatically sanitizes sensitive data (API keys, signatures, JWTs, emails, IBANs, and other PII). You can control the verbosity using the BIT2ME_LOG_LEVEL environment variable:

• debug: Detailed request/response logs (useful for development)

• info: Startup and operational events (default)

• warn: Rate limits and non-critical issues

• error: API errors and failures

Set LOG_FORMAT=json to switch the logger to a single-JSON-object-per-line format suitable for log aggregators (Loki, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.). The default is human-readable.

All logs are written to stderr; stdout is reserved for the MCP JSON-RPC frame.

🧵 Concurrency Model

Each incoming tool call runs inside its own AsyncLocalStorage boundary. The store carries:

• correlationId: a UUID generated per request, included in every log line

• sessionToken (jwt): the optional per-call session token, never logged in the clear

• toolName, startTime: useful for metrics / audit

Two concurrent HTTP requests (for example two JWTs in flight on the same local process) never share ALS state. That is request isolation, not a multi-user product — see ADR 0003. Tests outside runWithContext fall back to a safe default. See tests/concurrency.test.ts and tests/http-transport-*.test.ts.

Per-request state stored via memoizePerRequest() (e.g. wallet pockets fetched multiple times during a single broker quote) is keyed by correlationId and cleared in the finally block of executeTool() so the cache cannot grow unbounded.

🚢 Operating in Production

Two binaries ship with this package:

• bit2me-mcp-server — the original stdio transport, designed to be spawned by a single LLM client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, …).

• bit2me-mcp-http — HTTP JSON-RPC (src/index-http.ts). Each request may send its own credentials (X-Bit2Me-Api-Key + X-Bit2Me-Api-Secret or Authorization: Bearer <jwt>). POST /mcp handles initialize, tools/*, prompts/*, resources/*. A notification (no id) returns 202 with an empty body. GET /mcp (SSE) is reserved, not implemented. Default bind is loopback (127.0.0.1). This is not a hosted multi-tenant SaaS; see ADR 0003. Put TLS in front of any non-loopback bind.

Recommended environment variables for the HTTP binary:

• MCP_HTTP_HOST / MCP_HTTP_PORT (default 127.0.0.1:3000)

• MCP_HTTP_AUTH_MODE: api_key (default), jwt, or both

• LOG_FORMAT=json for structured logs

• AUDIT_LOG_PATH=/var/log/bit2me-mcp/audit.log to ship audit lines to a file

Choosing an auth mode (HTTP transport)

The HTTP transport accepts API-key credentials and Bit2Me session JWTs. Both modes are first-class — the right choice depends on where the server is bound and who is calling it, not on a one-size-fits-all rule. The full threat model and rationale live in docs/adr/0001-valet-key-http-credentials.md.

Hard rules that apply regardless of the mode you pick:

• Mint API keys with the smallest scope that satisfies the caller's use case. Read-only when possible. Never enable Withdrawal scopes for MCP usage — the MCP server intentionally does not support external withdrawals, so granting that permission only widens the blast radius of a leak.

• Always put the HTTP transport behind TLS on any non-loopback bind. Plain HTTP on 0.0.0.0 is a misconfiguration regardless of the auth mode.

• The server emits a startup WARN log if api_key/both is active on a non-loopback host so operators are nudged toward a TLS-terminating proxy or the JWT mode.

• Credential headers (X-Bit2Me-Api-Key, X-Bit2Me-Api-Secret, Authorization) are scrubbed from every structured log line before it reaches stderr.

Built-in observability endpoints (HTTP transport only):

• GET /health — liveness + Bit2Me reachability + cache/circuit-breaker/rate-limiter snapshot. Cached for 30s.

• GET /metrics — Prometheus text-format counters (bit2me_mcp_tool_calls_total, bit2me_mcp_tool_errors_total, bit2me_mcp_tool_duration_avg_ms).

Reliability features active by default:

• Circuit breaker on the upstream Bit2Me API (src/utils/circuit-breaker.ts).

• Per-endpoint rate limiter with exponential backoff + jitter.

• Idempotency keys on every write tool (pro_create_order, loan_create, earn_deposit, …) — the wrapper stamps a stable key if the caller omits idempotency_key.

• Irreversible writes (Pro / Earn / Loan / broker_confirm_quote; not broker_quote_*) return a needs_confirmation preview unless confirm is the boolean true. The preview repeats the stamped idempotency_key.

• Monotonic request nonces for API-key signing (replay-safe even under high concurrency).

• Append-only audit log for every successful and failed write operation.

❓ Troubleshooting

Error: "Connection refused"

• Ensure the MCP server is running.

• Check that the path in claude_desktop_config.json points correctly to the build/index.js file.

Error: "API Key invalid" or "Unauthorized"

• Verify your keys in .env or the Claude config.

• Ensure your API keys have the necessary permissions (Wallet, Trade, Earn, etc.) enabled in the Bit2Me dashboard.

• Check that there are no extra spaces or quotes around the API key values.

Error: "Rate limit exceeded" or 429 responses

• The Bit2Me API has rate limits. The server automatically retries with exponential backoff.

• If you're hitting rate limits frequently, reduce the number of concurrent requests.

• Consider adding delays between operations in your workflows.

Tools not showing up in Claude

• Restart Claude Desktop completely (quit and reopen).

• Check the Claude Desktop logs for initialization errors.

• Verify the configuration file syntax is valid JSON.

Error: "Request timeout"

• Check your internet connection.

• Increase BIT2ME_REQUEST_TIMEOUT in your environment variables (default: 30000ms).

• Some Bit2Me API endpoints may be temporarily slow.

Environment variables not loading

• When using npx, environment variables must be set in the config file's env section.

• For local development, ensure the .env file is in the project root.

• The server prioritizes config-provided credentials over .env file values.

Error: "Network error" or CORS issues

• The MCP server runs server-side and doesn't have CORS restrictions.

• Network errors usually indicate connectivity problems or API downtime.

• Check the Bit2Me status page or try again later.

Debugging

• Run the server manually to see logs:

  pnpm dev

• Set BIT2ME_LOG_LEVEL=debug for detailed logging.

• Check Claude Desktop logs:

  • macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\logs\mcp*.log

🔍 Testing with MCP Inspector

MCP Inspector is the official debugging tool for MCP servers. It provides a web interface to test your tools, view responses, and debug issues.

Installation

This repo uses pnpm dlx (see pnpm dev / make dev). Consumers of the published package can use npx.

Running the Inspector

Option A: Published package (no clone)

export BIT2ME_API_KEY=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_KEY
export BIT2ME_API_SECRET=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_SECRET
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/inspector npx @bit2me/mcp-server

Option B: Local repository

git clone https://github.com/bit2me-devs/bit2me-mcp.git
cd bit2me-mcp
pnpm install
pnpm run build

export BIT2ME_API_KEY=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_KEY
export BIT2ME_API_SECRET=YOUR_BIT2ME_ACCOUNT_API_SECRET
pnpm dlx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node build/index.js

Or after install: pnpm dev (same inspector against build/index.js).

CLI (no browser) — list tools against the local build:

pnpm dlx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector --cli node build/index.js --method tools/list

Note: The web inspector opens at http://localhost:5173.

Using the Inspector

The web interface provides:

1. Tools Tab:

   • View all 48 available tools

   • See input schemas for each tool

   • Test tools with custom parameters

   • View formatted responses

2. Resources Tab:

   • Explore bit2me://health, bit2me://server, and bit2me://catalog

3. Prompts Tab:

   • Test prompt templates (if configured)

4. Request/Response Logs:

   • See all MCP protocol messages

   • Debug communication issues

   • View timing information

Example: Testing a Tool

1. Navigate to the Tools tab

2. Select a tool (e.g., pro_get_ticker)

3. Fill in the required parameters:

   {
       "pair": "BTC-EUR"
   }

4. Click Run to execute the tool

5. View the formatted response in the output panel

🌐 Landing Page Deployment

The project's landing page is located in the /landing directory. Deployment is automated using GitHub Actions.

How to update the website:

1. Tool catalogue: edit data/tools.json (Python/shell), then pnpm build:docs and commit TOOLS_DOCUMENTATION.md. landing/tools-data.js is gitignored (Pages / pnpm build:docs for local preview).

2. Page chrome: edit HTML/CSS/CNAME in /landing if needed.

3. Push to main. Pages deploy on push; after a SemVer release the landing job in release.yml runs again so the catalogue snapshot can see the new git tag.

4. The hero Stable badge reads live npm, not package.json on main. Same source as the shields.io npm badge. See docs/stack/release.md.

Domain: The /landing/CNAME file manages the custom domain configuration.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to improve this MCP server! Whether it's fixing bugs, adding new tools, or improving documentation, your help is appreciated.

Please read our Contributing Guidelines for details on:

• Setting up your development environment

• Running tests

• Commit conventions (Conventional Commits)

• Pull Request process

Quick Start

1. Fork and Clone:

   git clone https://github.com/bit2me-devs/bit2me-mcp.git

2. Install Dependencies:

   pnpm install

3. Create a Branch:

   git checkout -b feat/amazing-feature

For full details, check the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Code of Conduct

Be respectful, inclusive, and constructive. Full text: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

📄 License

MIT License