hive-intel/hive-crypto-mcp

**One connection for evidence-backed crypto due diligence.**
Every Hive-backed answer carries sources, freshness, and a runtime receipt. The
hosted MCP normalizes market, wallet, DeFi, security, DEX, NFT, and network
evidence behind one agent-ready connection.
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> **Try it now, with no account and no key.** The hosted endpoint's anonymous lane
> answers 25 material calls per IP per day; discovery, schema lookup, and
> validation are always free:
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> Guided setup · Install guides · Example prompts
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Connect
Hive is a **hosted MCP server** for clients that support remote Streamable HTTP.
Once the hosted OAuth deployment is enabled, interactive clients discover it
from the public endpoint and open browser authorization. Headless agents can
use an API key from secret storage:
Config prefills, URL-only with no key or secret embedded:
The prefills carry only the public endpoint URL. The setup pages check the live
protected-resource metadata, server card, release version, and required client
redirect profiles before showing a native install action. Until that gate
passes, use the API-key fallback from a trusted backend/client; never put a key
in an install link. Per-client config blocks are below.
What is Hive Intelligence?
A managed MCP server, REST API, and CLI that give AI agents one evidence-backed
workflow surface over live crypto market data, DeFi, wallets, token security,
DEX flows, NFTs, and on-chain network data. Agents receive
the provider, Hive retrieval time, Hive first-observation/original cache time,
cache age, fallback state, runtime status, and a unique receipt for every
material execution instead of silently mixing provider data.
Connect to your AI client
The hosted endpoint is the same everywhere. After OAuth activation,
interactive clients should start with URL-only OAuth discovery. API-key auth
remains the explicit headless fallback.
Claude Code
Or install the full plugin bundle (the hosted MCP connection plus 16 crypto
workflow skills) from this repository's plugin marketplace:
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project):
VS Code (GitHub Copilot Chat)
.vscode/mcp.json (note the required type: "http"):
Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop uses the Custom Connectors UI for remote MCP. Open Settings →
Connectors → Add custom connector, set the URL to
https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp, then, after OAuth activation, complete
browser authorization. Do not paste a remote url block into
claude_desktop_config.json; that file is for local stdio servers.
Windsurf / Devin Desktop
Windsurf uses serverUrl (not Cursor's url) in
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:
Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI requires httpUrl in ~/.gemini/settings.json:
Both configs are URL-only and can use native OAuth after hosted OAuth
activation. Full per-client guides:
hiveintelligence.xyz/install.
Headless API-key fallback
For automation that cannot open a browser, keep a Hive API key in secret
storage and send Authorization: Bearer $HIVE_API_KEY. Never embed a real key
in an install link, shared config, screenshot, or repository.
Local stdio (desktop clients / self-host)
For clients that only launch local processes, such as Claude Desktop's
claude_desktop_config.json, run the published CLI as a stdio MCP server. By
default it proxies to the hosted endpoint, so it serves the same production
tools and data, authenticated with the key saved by hive auth login (keyless
without one):
Always launch hive-intelligence@latest. npx hive-mcp installs an unrelated
npm package, and npx hive-intelligence without @latest can keep running an
old version. hive doctor --fix repairs configs that do either.
To self-host with your own upstream provider keys, append "serve", "--local"
to args (or set HIVE_STDIO_MODE=local).
Local stdio does not use a hosted HIVE_API_KEY in that mode; configure only
the upstream provider keys you want that local process to call. Keyless providers remain available and providers without
credentials stay discoverable with a classified missing_key runtime status.
hive-intelligence is a stdio transport (a JSON-RPC channel, not an
interactive command). For terminal use, see the CLI.
Authentication
- No key needed to start: the hosted endpoint's anonymous lane answers 25 material calls per IP per day, and discovery/schema/validation calls are always free.