# Hive Intelligence

> Hive Intelligence is crypto market infrastructure for AI agents: a managed MCP server, REST API, and CLI that connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, OpenAI Responses API, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and header-capable MCP clients to live crypto prices, wallet positions, DeFi activity, and token risk. Optimized for agent tool calls, runtime discovery, and programmatic workflows.
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> Audience: AI agents, agent frameworks, and developer tooling that integrate Hive's MCP, REST, or CLI surfaces. Human readers wanting the same content can use the on-page docs at the linked URLs below.
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> Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Start Here

- [Hive for AI Agents](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/ai-agent-hub): Route-by-goal hub covering MCP, REST, CLI, Playground, endpoint setup, auth, and example prompts
- [Agent-Ready Crypto Market Data](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/ai-ready-data): What makes crypto data agent-ready, stable execution metadata, runtime tool discovery, safety grounding
- [What is Hive?](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/what-is-hive): Source-of-record positioning with technical definition
- [Get Started](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/get-started): Get a key, run one live call, connect one AI client, verify discovery, and choose a production surface
- [Quick Start](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/quick-start): Make a first REST, MCP, or CLI request
- [Set Up Your Client](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/setup): Tabbed client setup guide for every documented Hive MCP client plus CLI and REST
- [Playground](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/playground): Run live tool queries in the browser
- [Agent Onboarding (SKILL.md)](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md): Agent-readable install manifest. If you are an AI agent, fetch this file directly. It tells you which canonical path to follow (live query, app integration, get key, or CLI setup).
- [Agent Skills](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/skills): Human-readable skill pack index with install scope, runtime resources, public skills CLI install path, and all 17 skill mirrors

## Install in Your AI Client

- [All Clients Index](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install): Pick your client for a dedicated install guide
- [CLI + Skills Setup](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/claude-skill): `npx -y -p hive-intelligence@latest hive init --all --browser` runs the Hive CLI setup wizard for local credentials and supported local agent resources. Use the per-client/API guides for integration-specific MCP details.
- [Claude Desktop](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/claude-desktop): Anthropic's macOS/Windows desktop app for Claude.
- [Claude Code](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/claude-code): Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent CLI.
- [Cursor](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/cursor): AI code editor with native MCP support.
- [Windsurf](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/windsurf): Codeium's AI-native IDE with the Cascade agent.
- [VS Code](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/vs-code): Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot Chat.
- [OpenAI Responses API](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/chatgpt): OpenAI's programmatic remote MCP path for Responses API agents; ChatGPT app support is beta and auth-dependent.
- [Codex CLI](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/codex): OpenAI's terminal-native coding agent.
- [Gemini CLI](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/install/gemini-cli): Google's open-source AI coding agent.

## API

- [API Integration Guide](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/api-integration): Auth, discovery, transport, and request patterns
- [Crypto MCP Server](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/crypto-mcp): Root endpoint, category endpoints, discovery, example calls
- [Authentication](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/authentication): API key management and auth header usage
- [MCP Security](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp-security): Prompt-injection boundaries, key handling, scoped tool access, and local stdio guidance
- [Response Formats](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/response-formats): Normalized response envelope shape
- [Error Codes](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/errors): Error types and resolution guidance
- [Rate Limits](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/rate-limits): Per-plan request limits and handling
- [MCP Features](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp-features): Supported MCP capabilities and transports
- [Integrations](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/integrations): Framework, IDE, and orchestrator connectors
- [Technical Architecture](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/technical-architecture): System design and data flow

## Tool Categories

- [Tools Overview](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools): Full catalog across 10 categories
- [Live Catalog](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/live-catalog): Full wrapped provider catalog
- [Market Data & Price](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/market-data): Spot, OHLC, market caps, volume, derivatives, exchanges.
- [On-Chain DEX & Pool Analytics](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/dex-analytics): Pool, pair, liquidity, and trade flow data across major EVM and Solana markets.
- [Portfolio & Wallet](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/portfolio): Wallet balances, history, PnL, approvals across EVM and Solana.
- [Token & Contract Data](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/token-contract): Token metadata, holders, top traders, analytics.
- [DeFi Protocol Analytics](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/defi): TVL, yields, fees, chain breakdowns, stablecoins.
- [NFT Analytics](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/nft): Collections, floors, sales, holders, traits, compressed NFTs.
- [Security & Risk Analysis](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/security): Token, NFT, dApp, wallet scans; honeypot, rug-pull, simulation, LP locks.
- [Network & Infrastructure](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/network): Network lists, gas, block numbers, exchange status, and Solana infrastructure.
- [Search & Discovery](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/search): Cross-provider search across coins, tokens, exchanges, categories, events.
- [Prediction Markets](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tools/prediction-markets): Polymarket events, traders, market prices, settlement history.

## Tutorials

- [MCP Integration Tutorial](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tutorials/mcp-integration): Connect Claude, Cursor, or header-capable MCP agents
- [REST API Tutorial](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tutorials/rest-api): Call Hive from any backend
- [CLI Tutorial](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/tutorials/cli): Terminal workflows for tool discovery and execution

## Workflow Guides

- [Workflow Guides](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases): Task-oriented crypto agent workflows
- [Market Intelligence](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases/market-intelligence): Research agents and market scanners
- [Token Security](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases/token-security): Honeypot, rug, and risk detection
- [Wallet Analysis](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases/wallet-analysis): Portfolio views across chains
- [DeFi Yield](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases/defi-yield): Yield comparison and protocol health
- [Trading Bot](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/use-cases/trading-bot): Price, liquidity, and execution data

## Comparisons

- [Comparisons hub](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/comparisons): Index of every Hive vs alternative comparison, with the four-axis framing each page uses
- [Crypto MCP server evaluation guide](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/comparisons/crypto-mcp-servers): Choose a crypto MCP surface by use case, coverage, runtime model, provenance, and operating risk
- [Hive vs CoinGecko](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/compare/coingecko): Crypto market infrastructure for agents vs single-provider price API
- [Hive vs Moralis](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/compare/moralis): Unified crypto tool surface vs wallet/NFT-focused API
- [Hive vs Alchemy](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/compare/alchemy): Agent-ready data layer vs RPC-focused infrastructure
- [Hive vs Moralis Cortex](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/compare/moralis-cortex): Managed multi-provider MCP vs self-hosted Moralis-only MCP

## Glossary

- [What is MCP for Crypto?](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/glossary/mcp-crypto): Definition of crypto MCP servers, REST vs MCP comparison, managed vs self-hosted

## Docs and Reference

- [Data Sources](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/data-sources): The upstream providers Hive normalizes
- [CLI Reference](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/cli): Terminal commands for scripts and local tooling
- [Stateful Monitoring](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/stateful-monitoring): Monitor, alert, memory, report, and B2B subject tools
- [B2B Partner Adapter](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/b2b-adapter): Signed subject isolation for partner backends serving downstream customers
- [Changelog](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/changelog): Release notes and product changes
- [Roadmap](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/roadmap): What we are building next
- [FAQ](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/faq): Common questions about MCP, API, and the catalog

## Integration libraries

- [TypeScript MCP client adapter](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/sdk/javascript): npm install hive-mcp-client
- [Python package](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/sdk/python): pip install hive-intelligence (community-maintained, see disclosure)

## Company

- [About](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/about): Company overview
- [Contact](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/contact): Support, billing, and security routing

## Token

- [$HINT Token](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/hint-token): Live Base token facts, dynamic price and FDV snapshot, and Hive's usage-driven utility roadmap for API credits, holder alignment, grants, governance, and transparent future token programs.

## MCP Endpoint

- Base URL: https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz
- Root MCP: POST https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/mcp
- REST execute: POST https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/api/v1/execute
- B2B readiness: GET https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/api/v1/b2b/readiness
- Auth header: `x-api-key: <YOUR_HIVE_API_KEY>` or `Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_HIVE_API_KEY>`
- Authenticated tool discovery: GET https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/api/v1/tools
- Get an API key: https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/login?next=/dashboard/keys

## Optional

- [Pricing](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/pricing): Demo (free, 10,000 monthly credits), Analyst ($129/mo, 500,000 monthly credits), Pro ($499/mo, 2,000,000 monthly credits), Enterprise (custom)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/privacy-policy): Data handling and privacy practices
- [Terms of Service](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/terms): Usage terms and conditions
- [Security](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/security): Security posture and incident routing

## Machine-readable files for AI agents

- [Machine-readable pricing](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/pricing.md): Plan tiers, credits, rate limits, and endpoints in plain markdown for AI buyers
- [Agent install manifest](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/agents.md): Canonical install paths, MCP endpoints, and safety guidance for autonomous agents
- [Agent onboarding skill](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md): Decision-tree manifest. Fetch this if you are an AI agent and want a single source of truth for install paths
- [Agent skills index](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/skills): Human-readable install and skill-pack reference
- [Hive skill pack index](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/skills/index.json): Agent skill pack metadata mirrored from the MCP product contract
- [Public Hive skills mirror](https://github.com/hive-intel/hive-skills): install with `npx skills add hive-intel/hive-skills` or list with `npx skills add hive-intel/hive-skills --list`
- [Site llms-full.txt](https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/llms-full.txt): Extended site corpus for context-window-friendly ingestion

## Key Facts

- Hive Intelligence is crypto market infrastructure for AI agents, a managed MCP server, REST API, and CLI
- Founded in 2024 by Rishabh Narang (CEO, ex-derivatives trader, previously founded Sharpe Labs in 2021)
- One API key replaces stitching together Alchemy, CoinGecko, DeFiLlama, GoPlus, Codex, CCXT, Helius, Tenderly, Moralis. See https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/data-sources for the full list of upstream providers Hive normalizes
- 10 category-scoped MCP endpoints (Market Data & Price, On-Chain DEX & Pool Analytics, Portfolio & Wallet, Token & Contract Data, DeFi Protocol Analytics, NFT Analytics, Security & Risk Analysis, Network & Infrastructure, Search & Discovery, Prediction Markets)
- 13 root MCP discovery tools (`search_tools`, 10 category listers, `get_api_endpoint_schema`, `invoke_api_endpoint`) route agents to 375 callable tools
- 357 provider tools are exposed through the 10 category MCP endpoints; 18 Hive-native monitor, memory, alert, report, and B2B subject tools bring the full callable catalog to 375. Canonical count comes from authenticated REST discovery at https://mcp.hiveintelligence.xyz/api/v1/tools
- Documented MCP client or API-path support for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, OpenAI Responses API, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI
- Agent skills install through `npx skills add hive-intel/hive-skills` or the CLI setup path `npx -y -p hive-intelligence@latest hive init --all --browser`
- Official TypeScript MCP client adapter is published on npm as `hive-mcp-client@0.1.5`; use REST directly for non-TypeScript stacks.
- Pricing: Demo (free, 10,000 monthly credits), Analyst ($129/mo, 500,000 monthly credits), Pro ($499/mo, 2,000,000 monthly credits), Enterprise (custom)
- Investors / advisor lineage (shared with Sharpe Labs): Google Cloud, NVIDIA, AWS, Anthropic, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, GBV Capital, Contango Digital
- Distinct from Hive.io (blockchain), Hive.com (project management), and HIVE Digital (bitcoin mining)

## Contact

- Website: https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz
- Support: support@hiveintelligence.xyz
- Contact form: https://www.hiveintelligence.xyz/contact
- Twitter / X: https://x.com/Hive_Intel
- GitHub: https://github.com/hive-intel/hive-sdk
- Telegram: https://t.me/HiveIntelligence
- Founder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhnarang/
- Founder X: https://x.com/whorishabhnarang