# bca-mcp

> Blockchain Academics MCP server + `bca` CLI: crypto news, entity dossiers, market data, proprietary indicators, and academy explainers for AI agents

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/bca-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://blockchainacademics.com/crypto-api/docs
- repository: https://github.com/blockchainacademics/bca-mcp-python/issues
- version: 0.6.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, ai, blockchain, crypto, llm, mcp, news
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:bca-mcp

### Description (declared)

# bca-mcp

The canonical crypto MCP server for AI agents, **Python edition**: 3,800+ editorial articles, 150+ entity dossiers, 38 academy lessons in 8 courses, and live market data, as MCP tools your agent can call natively.

Sibling of [`@blockchainacademics/mcp`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@blockchainacademics/mcp) (TypeScript). Same REST API. Same attribution contract. Use whichever fits your stack.

**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.

## Why

LLMs 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.

## Install

```bash
pip install bca-mcp
# or, isolated:
pipx install bca-mcp
# or, ephemeral:
uvx bca-mcp
```

## Zero-config first run (no API key needed)

`uvx bca-mcp` works out of the box. The package ships with a public demo key, and 17 tools work without a key of your own:

`get_price`, `get_trending`, `get_fear_greed`, `get_market_overview`, `search_news`, `get_article`, `get_sentiment`, `get_entity` (slug form), `get_explainer`, `get_recent_stories`, `get_topic`, `search_grants`, `get_grant`, `list_jobs`, `get_job`, `search_academy`, `get_as_of_snapshot`.

Every other tool answers without a key with a clean upgrade message (`BCA_TIER_LOCKED`) that links the free signup. The demo key is shared: 100 calls a day across all demo users, 20 a day per IP address, 1 per second. On startup the server prints a one-time banner on stderr while demo mode is active.

## Configure an API key

Get a free API key at **https://blockchainacademics.com/crypto-api/signup** (2,000 calls/month per user). A free key opens 52 tools. Paid pla…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- finance.markets (1, declared)
- data.news (1, declared)
- research.academic (0.836, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/bca-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T10:26:44.276Z)

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