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The free tier covers 79 of the 105 tools: news and research search, prices, entities, sentiment, grants, events and jobs. One key works over REST and MCP. No card and no time limit.
Free tier
One key per email address, sent once you confirm it.
One key per address. No card.
What happens next
- 1Confirm your address
A verification link lands in your inbox, subject “Confirm your Blockchain Academics signup”. It is valid for an hour.
- 2Receive your key
A second email carries the key itself. We store only a one-way hash, so keep it safe: the dashboard can rotate it, never show it again.
- 3Make your first call
Paste it into the MCP server or send it as the X-API-Key header. The docs have a sample call for every tool.
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Read the docs for the sample calls and the MCP setup.