Give Claude live crypto news

The shortest useful thing in this cookbook: one command, no code, and Claude answers from a live feed of ~50 outlets instead of from training data.

~2 min No codeNo API key, no signup

get_news_summaryget_trending_news

Add the server

Alphaday is a remote MCP server, so there is nothing to install and no key to obtain. Claude Code takes it as one line.

claude mcp add --transport http alphaday https://api.alphaday.com/mcp

Ask a question it cannot answer from training data

The point is a question with a moving answer. Claude picks get_news_summary on its own and passes the project as a tag — the tool descriptions carry enough for that, so there is no prompt engineering step here.

What happened in Ethereum this week? Use the Alphaday tools.

What it prints

Produced by running the code above against the live API, not written by hand.

{
  "tags": ["ethereum"],
  "summary": "Ethereum and Base developers have abandoned their joint effort to align account abstraction proposals. Uniswap Labs stable pair hook became the highest volume pool on Ethereum. Ethereum builders face challenges between locking up cash or relying on trusted brokers amid market shifts.",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-15T06:16:31.794075+00:00"
}

The literal tool result behind Claude's answer, captured on 15 Sep 2026. updated_at is the server's, not yours — the briefing is recomputed on the server's own schedule, so two calls minutes apart can return the same text.

Variations

The same shape, pointed somewhere else. Every figure below came back from the live API.

Scope it to one outlet

sources takes source slugs. The Block alone carries 14,836 indexed articles, which is enough to ask about an outlet's coverage rather than the market's.

Summarise what The Block has published on restaking this month.

Ask for the thing that has no summary tool

Governance, exploits, yields and developer activity are all separate capabilities. Naming one steers the tool choice without you specifying a tool.

Which DAO proposals close in the next three days?

Use it from a different client

The same server works in Cursor, VS Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Windsurf, Cline, Roo and Kilo. Each takes a different config shape, which is why they get a page each.

codex mcp add alphaday --url https://api.alphaday.com/mcp

Before you build on this

Some tags return zero for a project that clearly has coverage

tags=lido returns 0 governance items. A tag only matches content through its keywords, and a tag filed with none never matches anything. Check a tag returns results before building a scheduled job on it.

Build a crypto research agent

~30 min · Python, stdlib only

Automate a weekly ecosystem digest

~25 min · Python, stdlib only

Code run and output captured 2026-09-15. The API needs no key and no signup — the full endpoint reference and the MCP server are both free.

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