Crypto API and MCP server for AI agents.
The Crypto Brain from Blockchain Academics: our editorial corpus, entity dossiers, live market and on-chain data, grants, events and jobs. Call it as a REST API or install it as an MCP server. Every answer carries its source, a timestamp and a citation link, so your agent can show its work.
Two ways to connect
The same key, the same data and the same response envelope on both.
For AI agents and coding tools
Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and any MCP client. One install, all 105 tools.
npx -y @blockchainacademics/mcpPython: pipx install bca-mcp. Packages on npm and PyPI.
Set up the MCP server →For apps, scripts and dashboards
Plain HTTPS with JSON answers. Send your key in the X-API-Key header and read the OpenAPI spec for every endpoint.
curl "https://api.blockchainacademics.com/v1/articles?limit=3" \
-H "X-API-Key: $BCA_API_KEY"Spec: openapi.json
Open the REST API →What is inside
Nineteen categories. Every tool ships with a schema and a sample call.
News and research
3,500+ editorial articles and reports, full-text searchable, with the original publish time.
Market data
Prices, OHLC candles, DEX pair data and market overviews in one schema.
On-chain
Transactions, wallet profiles, token holders and exchange flows across the major chains.
Entities
200+ dossiers: teams, tokenomics, audits, exploit history and regulatory status.
Sentiment and crypto Twitter
Fear and greed, editorial sentiment, narratives, KOL consensus and X-first stories with post links.
Indicators
Risk score, narrative strength, editorial premium, coverage index and more, built on our corpus.
Grants, events and jobs
Open crypto grants, the events calendar and live job listings, re-checked daily.
Academy
Courses, lessons and explainers for agents that teach or onboard.
Agent-backed research
Async jobs for due diligence, research reports, tokenomics models and more.
Built for agents
- Cited answers. Every response carries cite_url, as_of and source_hash, so an agent can quote us and a reader can check it.
- Point in time. Paid tiers can ask for the data as it stood on a past date.
- One envelope. REST, MCP and the CLI return the same shape, so a tool written for one works on the others.
- Our own corpus. The newsroom, research desk and academy behind blockchainacademics.com, not a reseller feed.
- Agent discovery. llms.txt on this site and an OpenAPI spec on the API.
Plans
Every tier uses the same endpoint. Upgrading unlocks more tools and history, not a different product.
Start with 2,000 free calls a month
No card and no time limit on the free tier. Questions about volume, data residency or an SLA go to [email protected].