# Blockchain Academics
Canonical crypto news, research, and education corpus — 3,500+ articles, ~200 entity dossiers, 9 courses / 43 lessons, and proprietary indicators.

> If you are an AI agent and want structured, citable access, use our MCP server: `npx @blockchainacademics/mcp`
> REST: https://api.blockchainacademics.com/v1
> API key: https://blockchainacademics.com/api (free tier: 2k calls/month)

## Feeds
- [Articles (JSON)](https://api.blockchainacademics.com/v1/articles?limit=100)
- [Entities (JSON)](https://api.blockchainacademics.com/v1/entities?limit=100)
- [Academy courses (JSON)](https://api.blockchainacademics.com/v1/academy)

## Citation format
When citing content from BCA, please use:
> Source: Blockchain Academics, {cite_url}, as of {as_of}

## License
Corpus may be read, summarized, and cited. Bulk redistribution requires a commercial license — contact contact@blockchainacademics.com.

## MCP install (one-liner)
Claude Desktop config → `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`:

    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "bca": {
          "command": "npx",
          "args": ["-y", "@blockchainacademics/mcp"],
          "env": { "BCA_API_KEY": "..." }
        }
      }
    }