Santiment MCP - Crypto Market Intelligence for Hermes Agent

The official Santiment MCP connector gives AI tools direct access to crypto market intelligence - on-chain metrics, social sentiment, trending narratives, and analyst insights across 500+ crypto assets.

What It Does

Santiment MCP bridges AI agents to live crypto market data:

• Metrics & Asset Discovery - Browse 30+ metrics across 500+ crypto assets. Filter by asset, metric, or both.
• Timeseries Data - Historical metric data (price, volume, market cap, active addresses, exchange flows, social volume) with configurable intervals and time ranges.
• Asset Screening - Filter and rank assets by any metric using threshold comparisons (greater than, less than) or percentage changes with sorting and pagination.
• Insights - Full analyst insights published on Santiment, with tags, authors, and predictions.
• Trending Stories - What narratives are driving crypto markets right now, with bullish/bearish sentiment breakdowns.
• Combined Trends - Unified view of trending words, stories, and AI-summarized social media discussions.

Supported Metrics

Category	Examples
Financial	Price, volume, market cap, exchange flows
On-Chain	Active addresses, transaction volume, network growth, NVT ratio
Development	GitHub activity, dev activity contributors
Social	Social volume, social dominance, sentiment (positive/negative)

Quick Setup

Prerequisites

• Santiment account: Free at app.santiment.net. Core metrics available on free tier.
• MCP-compatible client: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any Streamable HTTP MCP client

Connection Details

Field	Value
Transport	Streamable HTTP (Remote)
Endpoint	https://api.santiment.net/mcp
Authentication	OAuth 2.0 with PKCE
Token Life	1 hour (auto-refresh)
Tools	20+ (metrics, screening, insights, trends, timeseries)

Claude Desktop / Claude.ai Setup

1. Open Claude → Customize → Connectors → Add Custom Connector
2. Name: Santiment
3. Remote MCP server URL: https://api.santiment.net/mcp
4. Click Add - OAuth redirect to Santiment for authorization
5. Log in (or create free account) and approve the connection

Claude Code CLI Setup

claude mcp add santiment --transport http https://api.santiment.net/mcp
# OAuth authorization on first use

ChatGPT Setup

1. Settings → Apps → Advanced Settings → Developer Mode → Create App
2. Name: Santiment, URL: https://api.santiment.net/mcp, Auth: OAuth
3. Authorize via OAuth redirect
4. New chat → "+" → Santiment

Add to Hermes Agent

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "santiment": {
      "transport": "http",
      "url": "https://api.santiment.net/mcp",
      "auth": "oauth"
    }
  }
}

Key Tools

Tool	Purpose
get_available_metrics	List all 30+ metrics available for a given asset
get_timeseries	Fetch historical metric data with configurable intervals
screen_assets	Filter/rank assets by metric thresholds or % changes
get_insights	Fetch analyst-published insights with tags and predictions
get_trending_stories	Current market narratives with sentiment breakdowns
get_combined_trends	Unified trending words, stories, and AI summaries

Use Cases for CorpusIQ

Market Research for Content

Ask your agent: "What are the top 5 trending narratives in crypto this week?" Santiment returns stories ranked by social traction with sentiment breakdowns. Use this to inform content strategy for fintech-adjacent audiences.

Competitor Intelligence

For crypto-native competitors: "Screen assets in the AI-agent category by developer activity growth over 30 days." Identify which projects are gaining real traction vs. social hype.

Due Diligence

When evaluating crypto-integrated partners: "Show me on-chain activity trends for [token] over the last 90 days, plus any divergence between social sentiment and active addresses." Catch tokens where hype outpaces actual usage.

Example Queries

Market research: "What's trending in crypto right now? Give me the top 3 stories with sentiment." Validation: "Is this token's hype backed by real usage? Show me social volume vs. active addresses for the last month." Screening: "Find the top 10 assets by developer activity growth in the last 30 days." Divergence detection: "Show me any assets where social sentiment is high but on-chain activity is declining."

Pricing

• Free tier: Core metrics and signals available with free Santiment account
• Pro/API tiers: Higher rate limits, additional metrics, and historical depth available through SanAPI subscriptions

Integration with CorpusIQ

CorpusIQ is the connector layer that lets AI assistants read the systems a business already runs on - accounting, payments, CRM, email, files and analytics - and answer with the source named. It is read-only by design: it retrieves data and never writes to, or acts in, a connected system, which is what makes it safe to point at live accounts.

This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

See what CorpusIQ connects

Limitations

• Crypto-only: No equities, commodities, or traditional finance data
• Rate limits: Free tier has call limits; production use requires Pro subscription
• OAuth dependency: Requires browser flow for initial authorization (not headless-friendly)
• Metric coverage: 500+ assets covered; niche tokens may have limited data

Verdict

Santiment MCP is the most comprehensive crypto market intelligence MCP we've cataloged. For operators in fintech, crypto payments, or Web3 - this is essential infrastructure. The OAuth setup is clean, the free tier is genuinely useful, and the combined-trends tool provides signal that previously required manual dashboard-hopping.

Rating: ★★ - Essential for crypto/fintech operators