EMpulse Street FX Index

What you can do with it

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• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Other
• You need to fill in: X-API-Key

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

You need

• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

claude mcp add --transport http empulse-street-fx https://api.empulse.ai/mcp --header 'X-API-Key: your-value'

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empulse-street-fx": {
      "url": "https://api.empulse.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "empulse-street-fx": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.empulse.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

• X-API-Key secret HTTP header
  Your EMpulse API key (optional: without it the free level applies — free currencies, data up to yesterday, a daily limit per network). A free key: request_free_key(email) or https://empulse.ai/#key

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• get_street_rate

  The latest street exchange rate of an emerging-market currency against the US dollar (USDT) from the EMpulse Street FX Index, or the rate on a given day: rate (mid), buy, sell, spread, 1/7/30-day changes, confidence class and a ready citation. Free access is delayed by one day; a

• get_rate_history

  Daily street rates of a currency between two dates (inclusive, UTC days, at most 400 days per call): rate, buy, sell, confidence per day, plus a summary (first, last, change, low, high). Defaults: the last 30 days up to the latest day of your plan.

• list_currencies

  Every currency of the EMpulse Street FX Index with its status (active, or coverage in progress while market sources are being added), the confidence class and the number of sources behind the latest day, coverage since, and whether your plan covers it.

• get_official_vs_street

  How far the street rate of a currency is from its official central-bank rate: official rate and its publication day, street rate, premium in percent, 7-day average and 30-day maximum. Pro and Enterprise keys.

• get_stress_signals

  Early warning from the street: a none / watch / alert flag per currency when the street market shows stress (a run of weakening days, a 7-day move in the top decile of the currency's own year, a buy–sell spread blow-out), with the rules that fired and the day the episode started.

• get_fx_events

  A dated feed of events that move street FX in emerging markets — devaluations, cash and withdrawal limits, bans of stablecoin services, currency controls, payment outages — each a short quotation with a link to the public source. Filter by country or currency; `days` back from th

• get_hourly

  The street rate of a currency per UTC hour for one day, with the day's summary (vwap, high, low, hours, busiest hour), for every currency with hourly market data; each hour says its component (transaction_based / multi_source / combined) and quality. Pro and Enterprise keys.

• get_rail_health

  Which payment methods work in a country today and how reliably: for every method class (cards, bank transfers, instant transfers, e-wallets, mobile money, cash, crypto, direct local rails) and direction (pay-ins, payouts) a status — healthy / degraded / outage / no_data — with th

• get_rail_incidents

  Every change of status of a payment method class — degraded, outage, back to healthy — over the last `days` (default 30), newest first, each with a one-line summary ("Bank transfers (pay-ins) in Egypt: degraded since 2026-10-24 14:00 UTC"). Optionally one currency. Pro keys of th

• get_unmet_demand

  Where payment demand in emerging markets is not being served. Without a currency: the ranking of covered markets by the share of demand no rail served, with the trend. With a currency: its rank and trend (free level, one day behind); Pro keys of the Unmet Demand Map also get the

• get_usdt_liquidity

  Where and when the dollar actually moves through USDT: the liquidity index of a currency (0–100, 50 = the market's own 90-day norm) with a ready citation. Free level: yesterday, the free currencies. Pro keys of USDT Liquidity & Premium: today, every currency, the pay-in / payout

• get_news_sentiment

  What the news says about the country of a currency, day by day. Without a currency: the map of covered currencies ranked by the 7-day fall in the tone of the news. With a currency: its latest day — a label (negative … positive) and the direction of the trend (free level, one day

• get_rate_stack

  The ladder of rates a currency has on its latest day: the central bank's official rate, the interbank rate, what banks quote (buy / sell), the customs rate duties are computed at, what international cards settle at and the street rate — each with its publication day, the number o

• get_corridor

  The rate between two emerging-market currencies as quoted in public exchange listings between the two countries (units of `b` per 1 `a`), the day's range, the number of sources and the confidence class, next to the cross rate implied by the two dollar legs of the index and the co

• get_methodology

  How the EMpulse Street FX Index is computed — components, confidence classes, outliers, revisions, coverage rules — as markdown, with the citation format.

• request_free_key

  Issue a free EMpulse API key for an email address, right here: the free currencies, data up to yesterday, 100 calls per day. The key is returned and also emailed with a ready example; send it in the X-API-Key header on this server and on the REST API.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 8, 2026

• ✓ Pass

  Maker matches the repo

  The registry name was verified with the GitHub account empulse-ai, which owns the repo

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  Still maintained

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

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  Has a licence

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 72 ms (HTTP 200)

• – Not applicable

  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

• ✓ Pass

  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 16 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

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README from the maker

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