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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

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