DeFi Intelligence MCP

Operator-grade DeFi intelligence for Claude. 11 tools covering live TVL, yield pools, stablecoin flows, governance proposals, RWA attestation scores, X/Twitter market narrative, and a one-call operator brief for NotebookLM.

Listed on Smithery: smithery.ai/servers/defibabylon/defi-intel

Why this exists

DefiLlama's native MCP has 4 basic tools. Nansen and Messari are enterprise-gated. This fills the gap: operator-grade DeFi intelligence accessible to any Claude user, no subscription required for core data.

The get_market_narrative tool adds live X/Twitter sentiment via Grok — the only DeFi MCP that combines on-chain data with real-time social signal.

Tools

Data sources: DefiLlama, rwa-attest, Grok x_search.

Install via Smithery

npx -y @smithery/cli install defibabylon/defi-intel --client claude

Or add to Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "defi-intel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://defi-intel.siteflowops.co.za/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Self-host

git clone https://github.com/defibabylon/defi-intel
cd defi-intel
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env        # add XAI_API_KEY for x_search
python3 server.py

Server runs at http://localhost:8086. MCP endpoint: /mcp. Health: /health.

For stdio mode (Smithery local):

python3 server.py --stdio

Environment variables

Systemd (Linux, persistent)

[Unit]
Description=DeFi Intelligence MCP Server
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /path/to/server.py
Restart=always
Environment=XAI_API_KEY=your_key_here

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Background

What You Build When the Data Doesn't Exist Yet — the Paragraph article behind this tool.

Related

• gov-scout — the governance scraper behind get_governance_activity
• rwa-attest — the attestation scoring engine behind get_rwa_attestation
• HypeFiltr — weekly market gap intelligence newsletter; this MCP was the first gap actioned