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Give Claude live crypto market data in five minutes with MCP

Funding rates, open interest, ETF flows and backtests inside your AI client, plus a way to run strategies from a chat.

Ask a chat model what funding looks like right now and you will get a polite guess. It has no live data. The Model Context Protocol fixes that by letting an AI client call outside tools, and Central Command runs a remote MCP server with 27 crypto tools you can connect in a few minutes.

See what's there without an account

The server is at:

https://rtcelwjnrbmfmrywacky.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp

Listing the tools and their prices is free and needs no key. You can try it from a terminal:

curl -s -X POST https://rtcelwjnrbmfmrywacky.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"cc.list_catalog","arguments":{}}}'

That returns 26 endpoints with a price on each, from $0.0005 to $0.05 a call. They include fear-greed, funding-rates, open-interest, etf-flows, economic-calendar, cme-gap, asset-scanner, market-news, strategy-backtest and agent-strategy.

Two ways to pay

  • A linked key. Mint an API key on the Connect Claude page. Calls are free for linked accounts.
  • Pay per call with x402. No account needed. Call a paid tool without a key and the server answers with a 402 and payment details, settled in USDC on Base. This suits an autonomous agent with its own wallet.

Connect your client

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http central-command \
  https://rtcelwjnrbmfmrywacky.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp \
  --header "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Cursor and other clients that take JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "central-command": {
      "url": "https://rtcelwjnrbmfmrywacky.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-Api-Key": "YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Clients that can't send custom headers, such as a web connector form, can pass the key in the URL by adding ?apiKey=YOUR_KEY. Treat that URL like a password.

Things to ask

Once it's connected, try these:

  • "What's the current funding rate environment? Show me anything extreme."
  • "Run the asset scanner and find coins with unusual open interest changes."
  • "Backtest a mean reversion strategy on ETH that fades 2-sigma Bollinger bands, 4H timeframe."
  • "Create a paper strategy: scalp BTC on 15m using VWAP and volume spikes, 2x leverage."
  • "Show my portfolio: open positions, unrealized PnL, and any strategies running."

The last two need a linked account with a BloFin connection.

What it can and can't do with your account

Letting an AI near a trading account should make you nervous, so here are the limits:

  • Strategies deploy stopped. Nothing starts on its own.
  • Live orders need your explicit request plus a confirm_live flag on the call.
  • There is no withdrawal access.

Start with read-only market questions and see whether the answers are useful before you connect anything that can trade.

Going further

The MCP page has the current details, and the API catalog lists every endpoint if you would rather call them directly from your own code.

Disclosure: I build Central Command, which earns a commission from BloFin on members' trading. This article was drafted with AI assistance. It is not financial advice. Leveraged trading can lose all of your money.