A free, no-key MCP server for crypto news and market data (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT)
Written with AI assistance by the Basis Desk team. If you build agents that touch crypto, you have probably hit the same wall we did: models are confident about prices and events they cannot see, and scraping news sites is fragile. So we exposed our newsroom as a remote MCP server — free, read-only, no API key. Endpoint: https://basisdesk.news/mcp (Streamable HTTP). It is also listed in the…
The Basis Desk team has created a free, read-only MCP server for crypto news and market data. This server allows developers to build agents that access crypto information without the need for an API key. The endpoint for the server is https://basisdesk.news/mcp, and it is listed in the official MCP Registry as news.basisdesk/mcp.
The server is built as a stateless JSON-RPC handler on Cloudflare Workers, supporting protocol versions from 2024-11-05 to 2025-11-25. It does not require sessions and has CORS enabled. Stories are gathered from primary-source documents, drafted using an LLM, and then audited through a grounding process that checks for citations, n-gram overlap, and banned phrases before publication.
The server provides several tools for developers, including search_news for full-text searching stories against primary sources, latest_news for the newest stories filtered by category, get_article for a story in Markdown format with key points and source links, and market_snapshot for current prices, changes, and other market data. Additionally, there are tools for checking token safety, monitoring exchange inflows of stablecoins, and generating a daily crypto news summary.
The service is free for personal and commercial use, with attribution required to Basis Desk and the article URL. Users are encouraged to limit their requests to a few per second. For more information, including documentation and feedback submission, visit https://basisdesk.news/developers.
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