Add Hive to ChatGPT and OpenAI's assistant answers crypto questions with grounded, live data. Works in ChatGPT Desktop (macOS/Windows) via MCP connectors.

Before you start

ChatGPT Desktop installed (macOS or Windows). Download here.
A paid ChatGPT plan (Plus, Team, Enterprise, Pro) — MCP connectors require a paid tier.
A free Hive API key from /dashboard/keys.

60-second setup

1. Open ChatGPT Desktop settings

Click your profile icon → Settings → Connectors → Add Connector.

2. Add a custom MCP connector

ChatGPT supports remote HTTP MCP servers. Use this configuration:

Name: Hive
URL: https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Authentication: Bearer token
Token: your HIVE_API_KEY from /dashboard/keys

3. Enable the connector

Toggle it on in Settings → Connectors. ChatGPT will list Hive's tools under the connector panel.

4. Verify it worked

Start a new chat with the Hive connector enabled and ask:

"Using the Hive connector, what is the current price of BTC, ETH, and SOL?"

ChatGPT will call Hive's get_price tool and return a live answer. You'll see the tool invocation in the response UI.

What to ask once connected

"Check if this token is a honeypot before I buy: 0x6B175474E89094C44Da98b954EedeAC495271d0F"
"Show me the top 10 DeFi protocols by TVL on Ethereum and flag any that lost more than 5% TVL in the last 24 hours."
"What's vitalik.eth's wallet P&L year-to-date?"
"Summarize today's crypto market — top movers, BTC dominance shift, total DeFi TVL change."

If you don't have ChatGPT Desktop

ChatGPT's web interface does not yet support custom MCP connectors directly. Two workarounds:

Use a different client. Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code all support Hive natively.
Use Hive's REST API from an OpenAI-agent SDK. Call Hive's REST endpoint from your own code using the OpenAI Python SDK or the AI SDK — Hive exposes the same tools via HTTP. See REST API.

Troubleshooting

"MCP connector failed to connect". Double-check the URL — should be exactly https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp (trailing /mcp matters).

"Authentication failed". Verify your API key at /dashboard/keys. Token should be pasted as-is without the Bearer prefix — ChatGPT adds that automatically.

Tools don't appear. Disable and re-enable the connector. ChatGPT caches the tool list; toggling forces a refresh.

Corporate network blocks the endpoint. Hive's MCP endpoint is mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz over HTTPS. If your firewall blocks it, whitelist the domain or test on a home network first.

Other clients

Claude Desktop — Anthropic's equivalent, simpler MCP setup
Cursor — IDE-native crypto queries
All clients — full list

Next steps

Hive for AI Agents — what ChatGPT can build once Hive is connected
REST API — for OpenAI SDK-based agents
Tools Reference — every tool ChatGPT can call