Blockrun MCP
Real-time data - and real trades - for Claude and any AI agent. Agents can't sign up for accounts. Agents can't enter credit cards. Its 20 documented tools cover blockrun, polymarket. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.
People connecting search tools to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in TypeScript.
VERIFIED ACTIVE
LAST COMMIT 2026-08-21 · ★ 388 · #2 OF 47 MAINTAINED SEARCH · VERIFIED 2026-08-25
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01 · Install Blockrun MCP
before you install - you'll need
The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.
Claude Code
claude mcp add blockrunai-blockrun-mcp -- npx -y @blockrun/mcp Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config
{
"mcpServers": {
"blockrunai-blockrun-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@blockrun/mcp"
]
}
}
} Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.
Using another client? Same JSON, different key
Claude Desktop · mcpServers
Cursor · mcpServers
VS Code · servers
Windsurf · mcpServers
Zed · context_servers
Cline · mcpServers
Roo Code · mcpServers
Continue · mcpServers
LibreChat · mcpServers
Gemini CLI · mcpServers
Codex CLI · mcp_servers
Full setup guides: every client.
02 · Evidence
Security posture
What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.
runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions
license MIT - declared in the repository
npm package @blockrun/mcp - the @blockrun scope differs from the repo owner (blockrunai); confirm it's the project's official package
registry namespace io.github.BlockRunAI is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner
03 · What Blockrun MCP can do
Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.
What you can build
An agent gets 20 documented tools spanning blockrun, polymarket, including blockrun_chat, blockrun_image, blockrun_video, blockrun_realface.
The 20 tools it gives your agent
Extracted from the project's README - what blockrun-mcp lets an agent do.
- blockrun_chat
- - 71 LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi K3, GLM, NVIDIA free tier, …) with mode tier routing
- blockrun_image
- - Generate: openai/gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1, google/nano-banana(-2/-pro), xai/grok-imagine-image(-pro), zai/cogview-4, bytedance/seedream-5-pro. Edit: img2img, in
- blockrun_video
- - Sora 2 + xAI Grok Imagine Video + ByteDance Seedance 1.5/2.0-mini/2.0-fast/2.0/2.5 (720p + audio; 4K on 2.0, up to 30s on 2.5); RealFace asset → real-person vid
- blockrun_realface
- - Enroll a real person (phone liveness) or AI character (Virtual Portrait) as a ta_xxxx asset for Seedance 2.0 / 2.0-fast / 2.0-mini video (not 2.5)
- blockrun_music
- - MiniMax music generation
- blockrun_speech
- - ElevenLabs TTS (Flash/Turbo/Multilingual/v3, 8 voices) + ByteDance Seed Audio (prompt-directed) + cinematic sound effects; free voice listing
- blockrun_price
- - Pyth-backed realtime + OHLC - crypto / FX / commodity (free), 12 stock markets (paid)
- blockrun_markets
- - Polymarket (markets, candles, trades, orderbooks, leaderboards, smart-wallet PnL/clusters, UMA oracle), Kalshi, Limitless, Opinion, Predict.Fun, dFlow, Binance
- blockrun_polymarket_read
- - Read-only Polymarket positions/open orders plus executable live order previews, separated for MCP clients that enforce tool safety annotations
- blockrun_polymarket
- - Trade on Polymarket (CLOB V2): place/cancel real bets, positions, redeem winnings - signed locally, settled in pUSD from a gasless deposit wallet. Confirm-gated
- blockrun_surf
- - Surf (asksurf.ai) - 83 endpoints: CEX data, on-chain SQL (13 chains, 80+ tables), 100M+ labeled wallets, Polymarket + Kalshi, social mindshare, news, Surf-1.5 c
- blockrun_exa
- - Neural web search (Exa) - research, competitors, papers, URL content
show all 20 tools
- blockrun_search
- - Grok Live Search - web + X/Twitter + news with citations
- blockrun_dex
- - Live DEX prices via DexScreener
- blockrun_rpc
- - Raw JSON-RPC on 40 chains (Ethereum, Base, Solana, Bitcoin, Sui, NEAR, …) via Tatum
- blockrun_defi
- - DefiLlama - protocol TVL, chain TVL, yield pools (APY), token prices
- blockrun_modal
- - Isolated code execution in a BlockRun-hosted Modal sandbox - disposable container, optional GPU (T4 → H100)
- blockrun_phone
- - Outbound AI voice calls (Bland) + wallet-owned US/CA numbers (Twilio), carrier + fraud lookups
- blockrun_models
- - Live catalogue of every LLM/image/video/music model + pricing
- blockrun_wallet
- - Balance, spending, agent budgets, setup QR, chain switch
Latest releases
v0.40.2 · 2026-08-19
A housekeeping release. One correction users can actually see, and three fixes · to the machinery that was quietly wrong underneath it. · The documentation was misleading Solana users. blockrun_modal and…
v0.40.1 · 2026-08-13
An audit release: no new features, eleven confirmed defects fixed, nearly all of · them found by probing the live gateway rather than by reading the code. Seven · touch money directly. · Provenance is worth stating…
v0.40.0 · 2026-08-12
Catalog sync against the live GET /v1/models (2026-08-12, 91 models on both · chains). The July snapshot had drifted: two free-tier models died by aliasing · (one of them still routed in mode:"cheap"), and the gateway…
04 · Who maintains Blockrun MCP
blockrun-mcp is maintained by blockrunai. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Jan 2026.
05 · Facts
- repository
- github.com/blockrunai/blockrun-mcp
- category
- search - ranked #2 of 47 actively-maintained search servers as of 2026-08-25.
- release cadence
- 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-08-19)
- registry
- io.github.BlockRunAI/blockrun-mcp (active, first published 2026-01-14 · 45 versions)
- packages
- npm:@blockrun/mcp
06 · Blockrun MCP FAQ
Is Blockrun MCP still maintained?
Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-08-21 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.
What can Blockrun MCP do?
An agent gets 20 documented tools spanning blockrun, polymarket, including blockrun_chat, blockrun_image, blockrun_video, blockrun_realface.
How do I install Blockrun MCP?
Run `npx -y @blockrun/mcp`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.
Does Blockrun MCP run locally?
Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.
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