Token Metrics API Launches on Hacker News Offering AI-Powered Crypto Insights

The Token Metrics API has officially launched on Hacker News, marking a significant development in the mission to provide AI-powered crypto insights to developers, founders, and builders in the Web3 space. This launch is a major milestone for those involved in building trading bots, dashboards, investment tools, or AI agents that interact with the crypto market. The API offers real-time, AI-grade crypto intelligence available in minutes via a single API key, moving beyond raw feeds and static charts.

The Token Metrics API is a powerful crypto intelligence engine designed for developers seeking more than just price data. It integrates machine learning, quantitative modeling, and narrative indexing to deliver structured signals that aid in making smarter trading decisions. Unlike traditional APIs that provide prices, volume, and on-chain data, Token Metrics offers opinionated intelligence derived from over 80 on-chain, off-chain, technical, and sentiment indicators. This includes trader and investor grades, bullish/bearish signals across 6,000+ assets, narrative-based indices, quantitative risk scores, and sentiment analysis, all updated in real-time.

This API is designed for modularity and plug-and-play usability, featuring 21+ endpoints and official SDKs. It allows developers to ship faster and smarter without the need for custom pipelines. The API supports integrations with OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, and Raycast, enabling agents and LLM-powered tools to query live crypto intelligence in natural language without additional parsing.

The possibilities for developers using the Token Metrics API are vast. Whether creating AI trading agents, investor dashboards, DApps, mobile apps, or backtesting systems for narrative-based portfolio strategies, the API provides the necessary tools to build smarter applications. The launch on Hacker News, a trusted platform for discovering high-impact developer tools, has already garnered attention from a community of builders and engineers. This feedback is helping to evolve the API faster, positioning early adopters ahead of the curve.

To encourage adoption, Token Metrics is offering 5,000 free API calls per month for every new developer. This allows developers to sign up, plug in their key, and build applications with one consistent schema across multiple clients, without the need to chase multiple API documents. The API delivers real-time insights with zero guesswork, meeting the demand for more than just raw data.

For those interested in exploring the API, getting a key takes just 30 seconds. Developers can join the Hacker News discussion to see what others are saying and browse the full endpoints and SDKs in the documentation. The future of crypto building is AI-powered, and it starts with the Token Metrics API, offering one API, one schema, and smarter crypto applications.