crypto-pulse-mcp

Read-only crypto market data for AI assistants, over the Model Context Protocol. Ask Claude (or any MCP client) about prices, funding, open interest, DeFi TVL and stablecoin flows and get structured answers from public APIs. No API keys. No trading. No account access.

Example prompts once it is connected:

• "Is SOL trading at a premium on Bybit compared with Binance right now?"

• "What is BTC funding doing? Are longs crowded?"

• "How big is Stellar DeFi, and which protocols lead it?"

• "Is stablecoin supply growing or shrinking this week?"

Example

Asked in Claude Code with the server connected (snapshot, 22 Oct 2026):

Is SOL at a premium on Bybit vs Binance? What is BTC funding doing? How big is Stellar DeFi?

• SOL (get_price): no premium. $103.82 on Bybit, $103.83 on Binance, about 0.01% apart.

• BTC funding (get_derivatives): slightly negative, -0.0041% per 8h on Bybit (about -4.5% a year), so shorts are paying longs. Longs do not look crowded.

• Stellar DeFi (get_defi_tvl): about $241M TVL, #18 among chains. Top protocol: Blend Pools V2, about $140M.

Related MCP server: Simsar MCP

Install

Requires Node.js 20 or newer. The quickest way is npx, no clone needed:

claude mcp add crypto-pulse -- npx -y crypto-pulse-mcp

On Windows, run it from cmd (PowerShell swallows the --) and wrap npx so Claude Code can start it:

claude mcp add crypto-pulse -- cmd /c npx -y crypto-pulse-mcp

Add -s user to make it available in every folder, not just the current project.

Published on npm and in the official MCP Registry as io.github.markankamaransheogarat-sys/crypto-pulse-mcp.

To run it from source instead:

git clone https://github.com/markankamaransheogarat-sys/crypto-pulse-mcp.git
cd crypto-pulse-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crypto-pulse": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "crypto-pulse-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows use "command": "cmd" with "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "crypto-pulse-mcp"].

Claude Code

claude mcp add crypto-pulse -- node /absolute/path/to/crypto-pulse-mcp/dist/index.js

Any other MCP client that can launch a stdio server works the same way.

Details worth knowing

• Symbols. BTC, ETH/USDT, SOLUSDT and doge-usdt all work; a bare coin means a USDT pair.

• One exchange down is not a failure. get_price and get_derivatives query both exchanges in parallel. If one is unreachable (Binance is geo-blocked in some countries), you still get the other, with an errors field saying so. An unknown symbol is reported as "not listed", not as an outage.

• Caching. Responses are cached briefly (5 s for exchange tickers, 60 s for CoinGecko, 5 min for DefiLlama) to stay inside free-tier rate limits. Simultaneous identical requests share one call.

• Funding sign. Positive funding means longs pay shorts. annualizedFundingPct assumes today's rate holds for a year, which it will not; read it as a scale, not a forecast.

• DefiLlama CEX entries (exchange wallet balances) are excluded from per-chain protocol rankings.

• Not financial advice. These are snapshots of public data and can be seconds to minutes old.

Development

npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit over src and tests
npm test            # vitest, all HTTP mocked
npm run build       # compile to dist/
node scripts/smoke.mjs   # live check: starts the built server and calls every tool against the real APIs

Layout: src/sources/* talk to one API each and return normalised shapes, src/tools/* hold the logic and register one MCP tool each, src/http.ts is the shared client (timeout, bounded retries, TTL cache), src/symbols.ts normalises symbols.

Data sources

Bybit v5 · Binance spot and USDⓈ-M futures · CoinGecko · DefiLlama. This project is not affiliated with any of them; respect their terms and rate limits.

License

MIT