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Same REST API. Same attribution contract. Use whichever fits your stack.\n\n**v0.6 ships the full 105-tool catalog plus the `bca` CLI.** The tool names match the TypeScript package one for one, and the CLI gives you a terminal-first way to explore the same API.\n\n## Why\n\nLLMs hallucinate about crypto. BCA ships ground-truth editorial content with full attribution. Plug this MCP server into Claude Desktop, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Eliza, or any MCP-compatible agent and your model queries the BCA corpus like any other tool, with citations (`cite_url`, `as_of`, `source_hash`) and an honest `meta.status` on every response.\n\n## Install\n\n```bash\npip install bca-mcp\n# or, isolated:\npipx install bca-mcp\n# or, ephemeral:\nuvx bca-mcp\n```\n\n## Zero-config first run (no API key needed)\n\n`uvx bca-mcp` works out of the box. 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