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Basis Desk — crypto news & market data MCP Server

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Basis Desk — crypto news & market data is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Source-verified crypto news, live prices, whale transfers, token safety checks and the Daily Brief.

Uptime history 17 days of history
17 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
196 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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Today is the operative word: we check Basis Desk — crypto news & market data every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://basisdesk.news/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://basisdesk.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://basisdesk.news/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://basisdesk.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://basisdesk.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

article
get_article
Fetch one Basis Desk article as Markdown: key points, body, FAQ and the numbered primary sources it was checked against (with links). Use after search_news/latest_news when you need details, quotes or citations. Accepts a basisdesk.news URL or slug. Cite the article URL when you use it.
daily
daily_brief
Basis Desk Daily Brief: the 5–7 crypto stories that mattered, the numbers that moved and what to watch, published every morning (07:00 ET) plus an evening wrap. Use for 'crypto news summary today/yesterday' or a specific date (YYYY-MM-DD).
latest
latest_news
Latest crypto news from Basis Desk, updated around the clock — use for 'what is happening in crypto today' or the newest stories in one area. Filter by category (bitcoin, ethereum, defi, regulation, institutions, security, stablecoins, macro…) or kind (news, analysis, explainer). Returns headline, date, summary, tickers and URL.
market
market_snapshot
Current crypto market data: prices refreshed every minute from exchange feeds, 1h/24h/7d change, market cap, total market cap, BTC dominance, Crypto Fear & Greed, Ethereum gas and Bitcoin fees. Use for 'price of X', market overview or sentiment questions. Pass symbols (e.g. ["BTC","ETH"]) or omit for the top 15.
news
search_news
Search Basis Desk, a crypto newsroom that verifies every story against primary sources (SEC/CFTC/Fed filings, court records, company and protocol releases). Use for questions about a crypto event, company, regulator, token or protocol (e.g. 'SEC generic listing standards', 'Bitwise NEAR ETF', 'Solana validator client'). Returns matching stories (newest first) with headline, date, summary and URL; follow up with get_article for the full text and sources.
token
token_safety
Safety check of a token contract before someone buys or approves it: honeypot behaviour, buy/sell tax, mint/pause/blacklist powers, proxy upgradeability, owner privileges, holder concentration — data from GoPlus Security, explained in plain English by Basis Desk. Use when a user asks whether a token or contract address is safe or a scam. Informational only, not investment advice.
whale
whale_transfers
Large on-chain transfers ('whale moves') found by Basis Desk's own scanner: Ethereum ETH and major stablecoins/wrapped assets from $5M, Bitcoin from 100 BTC (change outputs excluded), with exchange wallet labels and direction (to/from exchange). Use for whale activity or exchange inflow/outflow questions. Last 7 days.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://basisdesk.news/mcp streamable-http answering 238 ms 7 min ago

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Basis Desk — crypto news & market data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Basis Desk — crypto news & market data do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: daily_brief, get_article, latest_news, market_snapshot, search_news, token_safety and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Basis Desk — crypto news & market data working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 196 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Basis Desk — crypto news & market data?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Basis Desk — crypto news & market data need an API key?
No. Basis Desk — crypto news & market data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Basis Desk — crypto news & market data?
It answers our handshake in 196 ms on average, which is faster than 63% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.