EMpulse Street FX Index is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 16 tools. Last commit 1 Nov 2026.
Street FX rates of emerging-market currencies vs USD: latest, history, premium, stress, events
Uptime history
14 days of history · worst day 99%
14 days agonow
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Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
16
Tools
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137 ms
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last commit 1 Nov 2026
What changed 4
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
29 Oct
a tool description was rewritten
get_hourly
27 Oct
3 tools appeared
get_corridor, get_news_sentiment, get_rate_stack
EMpulse Street FX Index missed one check this week
Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add empulse-street-fx --transport http https://api.empulse.ai/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.empulse.ai/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.empulse-street-fx]
url = "https://api.empulse.ai/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"empulse-street-fx": {
"url": "https://api.empulse.ai/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"empulse-street-fx": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.empulse.ai/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 16
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
rail
get_rail_health
Which payment methods work in a country today and how reliably: for every method class (cards, bank transfers, instant transfers, e-wallets, mobile money, cash, crypto, direct local rails) and direction (pay-ins, payouts) a status — healthy / degraded / outage / no_data — with the time it began and a ready citation. Free level: the free currencies, one day behind. Pro keys of the Rail Health Index: today, every currency, the health index (100 = the rail's own norm), availability, supply.
get_rail_incidents
Every change of status of a payment method class — degraded, outage, back to healthy — over the last `days` (default 30), newest first, each with a one-line summary ("Bank transfers (pay-ins) in Egypt: degraded since 2026-10-24 14:00 UTC"). Optionally one currency. Pro keys of the Rail Health Index.
rate
get_rate_history
Daily street rates of a currency between two dates (inclusive, UTC days, at most 400 days per call): rate, buy, sell, confidence per day, plus a summary (first, last, change, low, high). Defaults: the last 30 days up to the latest day of your plan.
get_rate_stack
The ladder of rates a currency has on its latest day: the central bank's official rate, the interbank rate, what banks quote (buy / sell), the customs rate duties are computed at, what international cards settle at and the street rate — each with its publication day, the number of sources and a confidence class — the gap of the street over every rung, the width of the ladder, its 7- and 30-day trend and a widening signal (none / watch / alert), with a ready citation. A rung the country does not publish on its own says which rung it equals. Free level: the official, customs and street rungs of the free currencies, one day behind. Paid keys of the FX Rate Stack: every rung, every active currency, today.
corridor
get_corridor
The rate between two emerging-market currencies as quoted in public exchange listings between the two countries (units of `b` per 1 `a`), the day's range, the number of sources and the confidence class, next to the cross rate implied by the two dollar legs of the index and the corridor premium (positive: going directly is dearer than through the dollar). Pro and Enterprise keys of the index.
currencies
list_currencies
Every currency of the EMpulse Street FX Index with its status (active, or coverage in progress while market sources are being added), the confidence class and the number of sources behind the latest day, coverage since, and whether your plan covers it.
events
get_fx_events
A dated feed of events that move street FX in emerging markets — devaluations, cash and withdrawal limits, bans of stablecoin services, currency controls, payment outages — each a short quotation with a link to the public source. Filter by country or currency; `days` back from the latest day of your plan (free: 48-hour delay).
hourly
get_hourly
The street rate of a currency per UTC hour for one day, with the day's summary (vwap, high, low, hours, busiest hour), for every currency with hourly market data; each hour says its component (transaction_based / multi_source / combined) and quality. Pro and Enterprise keys.
methodology
get_methodology
How the EMpulse Street FX Index is computed — components, confidence classes, outliers, revisions, coverage rules — as markdown, with the citation format.
news
get_news_sentiment
What the news says about the country of a currency, day by day. Without a currency: the map of covered currencies ranked by the 7-day fall in the tone of the news. With a currency: its latest day — a label (negative … positive) and the direction of the trend (free level, one day behind); Pro keys of EM FX News & Sentiment also get the score (−1 … 1), the index against the country's own 90-day norm, the number of articles, the early signal when the tone falls while the street rate is calm, the global topics (macro, crypto, markets) and the link between the tone and the next 1-, 3- and 7-day moves of the street rate, with confidence.
official
get_official_vs_street
How far the street rate of a currency is from its official central-bank rate: official rate and its publication day, street rate, premium in percent, 7-day average and 30-day maximum. Pro and Enterprise keys.
request
request_free_key
Issue a free EMpulse API key for an email address, right here: the free currencies, data up to yesterday, 100 calls per day. The key is returned and also emailed with a ready example; send it in the X-API-Key header on this server and on the REST API.
street
get_street_rate
The latest street exchange rate of an emerging-market currency against the US dollar (USDT) from the EMpulse Street FX Index, or the rate on a given day: rate (mid), buy, sell, spread, 1/7/30-day changes, confidence class and a ready citation. Free access is delayed by one day; a Pro key gives the current day.
stress
get_stress_signals
Early warning from the street: a none / watch / alert flag per currency when the street market shows stress (a run of weakening days, a 7-day move in the top decile of the currency's own year, a buy–sell spread blow-out), with the rules that fired and the day the episode started. One currency or all. Pro and Enterprise keys.
unmet
get_unmet_demand
Where payment demand in emerging markets is not being served. Without a currency: the ranking of covered markets by the share of demand no rail served, with the trend. With a currency: its rank and trend (free level, one day behind); Pro keys of the Unmet Demand Map also get the unmet share, the not-connected share, the index against the 90-day norm, the reason classes and the hours of day, per direction and method class.
usdt
get_usdt_liquidity
Where and when the dollar actually moves through USDT: the liquidity index of a currency (0–100, 50 = the market's own 90-day norm) with a ready citation. Free level: yesterday, the free currencies. Pro keys of USDT Liquidity & Premium: today, every currency, the pay-in / payout balance, the spread, the active hours of day, the premium over the official rate and the supply class.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://api.empulse.ai/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 159 ms | 2 min ago |
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EMpulse Street FX Index — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can EMpulse Street FX Index do?
It exposes 16 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_corridor, get_fx_events, get_hourly, get_methodology, get_news_sentiment, get_official_vs_street and 10 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is EMpulse Street FX Index mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around rate and rail. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is EMpulse Street FX Index 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 137 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect EMpulse Street FX Index?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does EMpulse Street FX Index need an API key?
No. EMpulse Street FX Index completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 16 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is EMpulse Street FX Index?
It answers our handshake in 137 ms on average, which is faster than 85% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is EMpulse Street FX Index open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.