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CCXT is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Official CCXT MCP server - Market data and trading across 100+ exchanges and prediction markets. It has 44,271 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y ccxt-mcp.

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  • Official
  • Finance
  • MIT
  • Actively maintained
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Install CCXT

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ccxt": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ccxt-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio ccxt -- npx -y ccxt-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ccxt": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ccxt-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "ccxt": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ccxt-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About CCXT

Connect AI agents (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and any MCP host) to 100+ cryptocurrency exchanges and prediction markets through the unified ccxt API: market data, account balances, order management, and — when you explicitly enable it — trading.

  • altcoin
  • api
  • arbitrage
  • bitcoin
  • bot
  • cryptocurrency
  • crypto
  • ethereum
  • exchange
  • invest

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What is CCXT?

CCXT is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Official CCXT MCP server - Market data and trading across 100+ exchanges and prediction markets. It has 44,271 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y ccxt-mcp. The source code is at github.com/ccxt/ccxt.

How do I install the CCXT MCP server?

Add the command npx -y ccxt-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is CCXT free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is CCXT actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v4.5.85, published Oct 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.