Web3 Research MCP

Web3 Research MCP is an MCP server that provides local, in-depth cryptocurrency and decentralized finance research directly within LLM clients. It connects to cryptocurrency data aggregators and DeFi analytics platforms including CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, and DeFiLlama without requiring any initial API keys. Crypto analysts, decentralized application developers, and investors use this server to gather market metrics, evaluate protocol health, track exchange liquidity, and structure comparative token research workflows. By operating locally on the user machine, Web3 Research MCP enables secure data analysis where search queries and extracted resource contents remain private. It allows an AI agent to build sequential research plans, fetch live prices, calculate TVL histories, examine circulating supplies, list multi-chain contract addresses, and retrieve active trading venue order statistics. It also manages internal resource storage and status tracking for generated research reports.

Category: Finance, Crypto & Payments

Tags: blockchain, crypto, research, web3

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How to install and configure Web3 Research MCP

1. Ensure Node.js version 16 or higher is installed on your system. 2. Open your client configuration file, such as claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for Cursor. 3. Add web3-research-mcp under your mcpServers object using the following configuration: json { "mcpServers": { "web3-research-mcp": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "web3-research-mcp@latest"] } } } 4. Alternatively, install directly to Claude Desktop using Smithery by running npx -y @smithery/cli install web3-research-mcp --client claude. 5. Restart Claude Desktop or Cursor to apply the changes.

What you can do with Web3 Research MCP

• Querying real-time market data, circulating supply, and all-time highs for any token via the public CoinGecko API * Analyzing protocol total value locked, per-chain breakdowns, historical changes, and fee generation using DeFiLlama endpoints * Inspecting centralized and decentralized exchange liquidity, bid-ask spreads, and 24-hour trading volumes for token pairs * Building structured cryptocurrency research plans and saving webpage references as persistent local markdown resources

Key facts

• Free
• https://github.com/aaronjmars/web3-research-mcp
• Finance, Crypto & Payments, Web Search & Research
• blockchain, crypto, research, web3

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How do I install Web3 Research MCP?

You can install and run Web3 Research MCP using npx by adding it to your MCP client configuration file with the command npx and arguments -y web3-research-mcp@latest. It can also be installed into Claude Desktop automatically via the Smithery CLI using npx -y @smithery/cli install web3-research-mcp --client claude. Node.js version 16 or higher is required.

What can Web3 Research MCP do?

Web3 Research MCP gathers market data and technical metrics across crypto sources such as CoinGecko and DeFiLlama. It can create token research plans, search for protocol statistics, inspect active exchange tickers, calculate TVL changes, analyze multi-chain contract addresses, and save fetched web content locally as reference resources.

Does Web3 Research MCP require an API key?

No API key is required to use the server. It connects to the free public tiers of platforms like CoinGecko and DeFiLlama out of the box. However, you can optionally supply a COINGECKO_API_KEY environment variable to access CoinGecko Pro API endpoints with higher rate limits.

Which MCP clients work with Web3 Research MCP?

Web3 Research MCP works with any Model Context Protocol client that supports local command-based server execution, including Claude Desktop and Cursor. You configure the server by adding the standard npx launcher to your client settings file.

Is Web3 Research MCP open source?

Yes, Web3 Research MCP is free open-source software distributed under the MIT License. The code and issue tracker are hosted publicly on GitHub at https://github.com/aaronjmars/web3-research-mcp.