Who is Hive Intelligence for?

Developers building AI products that need live crypto data: trading bots, research agents, wallet analyzers, security scanners, DeFi yield comparators, market briefing agents, and trading copilots inside Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT Desktop, Windsurf, VS Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI.

How is Hive different from CoinGecko, Moralis, or Alchemy?

CoinGecko is a single-provider price API. Moralis is wallet/NFT-focused. Alchemy is RPC-focused. Hive normalizes all three categories — and more (DeFi, security, DEX flows, prediction markets, network infrastructure) — into one MCP-native tool surface, so an agent gets full crypto context without stitching separate provider APIs together.

Free Demo (10,000 credits/month, every tool, 30 req/min). Analyst at $129/month (500K credits, 500 req/min). Pro at $499/month (2M credits, 1,000 req/min). Enterprise is custom. One credit equals one tool call regardless of provider or payload size. See /pricing for the full plan grid.

Which AI clients can use Hive?

Hive ships native MCP install paths for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Claude Mobile, ChatGPT Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code (via GitHub Copilot Chat), Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. The same managed endpoint also serves any agent that speaks REST or stdio MCP.

Hive's MCP CLI is open source (npm: hive-intelligence). The managed MCP server endpoint, normalization layer, and tool catalog are operated as a managed service. SKILL.md, agent-onboarding manifests, and reference SDKs are public.

Is Hive Intelligence the same as Hive.io or HIVE Digital?

No. Hive Intelligence is an AI data infrastructure company for blockchain and market data. It is distinct from Hive.io (the blockchain network), Hive.com (project management software), and HIVE Digital (the bitcoin mining company). Confusable name, different entities.

What Is Hive Intelligence? Crypto Data MCP and API

Twilio for voice. Stripe for payments. Plaid for banking. Hive for crypto. A managed MCP server, REST API, and CLI that gives your AI agent live prices, wallet positions, DeFi activity, token risk, and every on-chain signal it needs to answer its next question. Built for machines, not dashboards.

Start free with 10K credits → See pricing

Founded in 2024 by Rishabh Narang (ex-derivatives trader, founder of Sharpe Labs in 2021). Investor and advisor lineage shared with Sharpe Labs includes Google Cloud, NVIDIA, AWS, Anthropic, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, GBV Capital, and Contango Digital.

Under the hood, Hive is a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and REST API gateway built for developers shipping AI products — trading bots, research agents, wallet analyzers, security scanners. Your agent discovers 348 wrapped provider tools at runtime across root discovery, 10 category-scoped endpoints, and REST: market prices, DeFi analytics, wallet intelligence (EVM and Solana), token security, DEX activity, prediction markets, NFTs (including Solana compressed NFTs), token metadata, search, and cross-chain network infrastructure. See Data Sources for the full list of upstream providers we normalize into a single tool surface with one credit currency.

The Problem

If you are building a crypto AI agent today, you are stitching together separate APIs for prices, DeFi analytics, security checks, wallet data, exchange data, DEX and prediction markets, Solana RPC, and transaction simulation.

Every provider you add slows shipping and grows your maintenance bill. Hive is one API that already speaks to all of them — normalized, authenticated, and discovered at runtime.

What Hive Does

Hive is a managed gateway that sits between your AI agent and all of those providers. You connect once - through MCP, REST API, or CLI - and your agent gets access to everything.

Hundreds of live tools across 10 categories
Runtime tool discovery - your agent finds tools as it needs them
One API key, one auth flow, one schema - regardless of which upstream the data comes from

How Teams Use It

MCP

Best for AI agent workflows. Your agent connects to the Hive MCP endpoint and discovers tools at runtime. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, and LangChain.

REST API

Best for backends and scripted workflows. Standard HTTP requests to list and execute tools.

CLI

Best for terminal access, testing, and local automation.

Who Uses Hive

Hive is built for three kinds of crypto AI agent workflows:

Research agents — a quant or market-intelligence agent that tracks top movers, flags DeFi TVL shifts, and assembles daily briefings. These agents call get_price, get_trending_pools, defillama_get_protocols, and codex_prediction_market_stats to build context, then summarize for a human reader.
Trading bots and execution agents — bots that need live order flow, perpetual funding rates, DEX liquidity, and Solana priority fees in one pipeline. Hive replaces a rotating cast of CEX APIs, DEX aggregators, and Solana RPC nodes with one authenticated surface.
Wallet and security agents — agents that audit a wallet before an action: wallet reconciliation (moralis_get_wallet_net_worth + helius_get_assets_by_owner), pre-signing safety (go_plus_token_security, detect_rugpull), and gas/priority estimation (helius_get_priority_fee_estimate).

Typical callers: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT Desktop, Windsurf, VS Code (GitHub Copilot Chat), Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and custom MCP clients. Hive is built for machines, not dashboards — the tool surface is optimized for LLM function calling.

Why Teams Start Here

Hive reduces integration work from weeks to minutes. Instead of wiring up separate providers for prices, DeFi analytics, wallets, security, and prediction markets, teams connect once and narrow down to the tools they need.

That makes Hive useful for both fast prototypes and production systems where tool discovery, managed authentication, and current documentation matter.

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