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CryptoAPIs-ioLABSCO SUMMARY
One integration for wallets, swaps and scheduled orders — at an alpha's maturity.
The appeal is that trade types an agent normally cannot express — DCA, limit orders, scheduled orders with their own place/list/cancel lifecycle — arrive as tools rather than as something you script against an exchange API. Two things set the expectation: the project calls itself pre-alpha, and the key is gated behind holding the Armor NFT, so this is not something you try on a whim.
What it is
A single MCP integration point between an AI agent and the crypto ecosystem: wallet creation and management, swaps, transfers, event-based trades and staking. Solana is what it supports in alpha; the project says more than a dozen chains including Ethereum, Base, Avalanche, Bitcoin, Sui, Optimism, Ton, BNB and Arbitrum are planned for beta.
What you get
- Wallet management with grouping, organisation and archiving
- Swaps and trades — a plain swap, DCA orders you can place, list and cancel, limit orders with the same lifecycle, and scheduled orders
- Staking and unstaking
- Token search and trending tokens
- A statistical calculator the agent uses so analysis is computed rather than estimated
- Cross-chain transactions, social sentiment and prediction listed among the feature set
Requirements
An Armor API key, and the README states you currently need the Armor NFT to obtain one. Python with uv installed (pip install uv, or brew install uv on macOS); the server runs through uvx on armor-crypto-mcp@latest with ARMOR_API_KEY in the environment. The project describes itself as pre-alpha and is being tested against Claude Desktop, Cline, Cursor and n8n. Solana is the only blockchain supported today.
Setup effort
One command plus a key — uvx armor-crypto-mcp@latest --version, then supply credentials
USE CASES
01
Placing a dollar-cost-average schedule from a conversation
Describe the schedule you want, then list and cancel it later through the same tools rather than through a separate dashboard.
02
Keeping several wallets organised
Group and archive wallets so an agent operating across them is working from named sets rather than raw addresses.
03
Checking a token before acting on it
Search tokens and read the trending list, and let the statistical calculator do the arithmetic instead of the model.
04
Wiring crypto actions into an n8n workflow
Add an MCP node with uvx as the command and armor-crypto-mcp as the argument, then pick the operation per node.
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Requires
- uvx on PATH
- ARMOR_API_KEY in your environment
Where it runs
Both documented clients run the server on your machine.
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Server setup
TERMINAL
uvx armor-crypto-mcp@latest --versionMCP Clients
Claude Desktop, Cline
JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"armor-crypto-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"armor-crypto-mcp@latest",
"--version"
],
"env": {
"ARMOR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ARMOR_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
