CoinMarketCal
CoinMarketCal is a community-driven crypto calendar, highlighting upcoming events, announcements, and releases, helping traders and enthusiasts track market-impacting developments in the cryptocurrency space
Verdict
Common use cases
- Track upcoming hard forks and protocol upgrades
- Monitor exchange listing announcements for altcoins
- Scan conference schedules for partnership reveals
- Filter events by coin or date range
- Surface market-moving announcements before standup
Integration
- Vendor
- CoinMarketCal
- Category
- developer-tools
- Auth
- API_KEY
- Composio slug
coinmarketcal
Tools
Setup
Setup guide
- 11. Go to CoinMarketCal's website and sign up for an account if you don't have one. 2. Navigate to your account settings or API section and generate an API key. 3. Copy that key. 4. In Switchy, open your workspace settings and click 'Add Integration'. 5. Select CoinMarketCal from the list. 6. Paste your API key into the authentication field and click 'Connect'. 7. Switchy will verify the key and confirm the connection. 8. Open any Space, type '@CoinMarketCal what events are coming up for Ethereum this week?' and send. 9. If the MCP responds with a list of events, your setup is complete.
What teammates see: by default, memories from CoinMarketCal are scoped to the Space (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.
Works well with
Top models
Compatibility data appears once enough Spaces have used this MCP together with a given model.
How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
This Week's Events
@CoinMarketCal show me all events happening in the next 7 days, sorted by date.Open in a Space →
Bitcoin Calendar
@CoinMarketCal what events are coming up for Bitcoin in the next month?Open in a Space →
Exchange Listings
@CoinMarketCal find all exchange listing events scheduled for this week.Open in a Space →
Altcoin Watch
@CoinMarketCal show me upcoming events for Cardano and Polkadot.Open in a Space →
Conference Schedule
@CoinMarketCal list all cryptocurrency conferences happening in the next two months.Open in a Space →
Example outputs
Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.
@CoinMarketCal what crypto events are scheduled for Bitcoin and Ethereum this week?
Based on CoinMarketCal's calendar, here are upcoming events for BTC and ETH this week: Bitcoin has a protocol upgrade discussion scheduled for Thursday (community vote phase), and Ethereum has a core developer call on Friday plus a mainnet shadow fork test on Wednesday. Both coins also have multiple exchange listing announcements and conference appearances. This represents a snapshot; event details and vote outcomes update in real-time on the platform.
This read-heavy example shows the MCP's core strength: surfacing crypto event calendars that traders and developers monitor for market-moving announcements. Requires an API key with calendar-read scope. Event data reflects what CoinMarketCal's community has submitted and verified, not official project roadmaps.
@CoinMarketCal add a reminder for the Solana mainnet upgrade happening March 15th and tag it as high-impact
I've added a calendar entry for the Solana mainnet upgrade on March 15th and flagged it as high-impact in your CoinMarketCal workspace. The event is now visible in your personal feed and will trigger notifications 24 hours before and 1 hour before the scheduled time. You can adjust notification timing or add additional tags (like 'protocol' or 'network') directly in the CoinMarketCal dashboard.
This write example demonstrates event creation and tagging. Requires API key with write permissions. Side-effect: creates a persistent calendar entry that other team members with shared workspace access may see. CoinMarketCal's free tier limits custom event creation; check your plan's quota before bulk-adding reminders.
@CoinMarketCal review all exchange listing events for altcoins under $100M market cap in the last 30 days and summarize which exchanges are most active
Analyzing CoinMarketCal's recent listing events for sub-$100M altcoins: Gate.io led with 18 new listings, followed by MEXC (14 listings) and KuCoin (9 listings). Binance had zero listings in this market cap range. The most common event types were 'spot trading launch' and 'futures pair addition'. Notably, 60% of these listings occurred within 3 days of a project's token generation event, suggesting exchanges prioritize new launches. This pattern holds across both CEXs and DEX aggregators tracked by CoinMarketCal.
This synthesis example pairs the MCP's event data with AI reasoning to extract market trends. Useful for due diligence or competitive analysis. Accuracy depends on CoinMarketCal's community-submitted data completeness—smaller exchanges and newer tokens may have reporting lag. Rate limits apply to bulk historical queries; expect slower responses for 30+ day windows.
Use-case deep-dives
When your team ships features around token events
A 6-person product team at a DeFi protocol needs to time feature releases around competitor token unlocks and exchange listings. CoinMarketCal surfaces those events in Switchy so the PM can check upcoming dates during sprint planning without opening another tab. The API key setup takes two minutes. The trade-off: if your team doesn't ship crypto products or track token economics, this MCP adds zero value—it's purpose-built for teams whose roadmap depends on on-chain event timing. If you're coordinating launches, integrations, or marketing around the crypto calendar, this is the fastest way to pull that context into your workspace.
When deal memos need event context fast
A 4-person investment team at a crypto fund writes deal memos twice a week. Each memo needs a section on upcoming catalysts—token unlocks, mainnet launches, governance votes. CoinMarketCal lets the analyst query events for a specific token or date range directly in Switchy while drafting, cutting the research loop from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. The API key is free for basic use. The boundary: if your fund focuses on equity or traditional assets, this MCP is irrelevant. If you're writing memos on tokens, protocols, or crypto infrastructure, this is the cleanest way to embed event data without switching to a browser.
When your Discord calendar syncs to token milestones
A 2-person community team at a Layer 2 protocol schedules AMAs, Twitter Spaces, and Discord events around ecosystem milestones—partner launches, testnet releases, competitor announcements. CoinMarketCal in Switchy lets them check the next 30 days of relevant events while drafting the monthly content calendar. Setup is one API key. The catch: if your community isn't crypto-native or doesn't care about token events, this MCP is noise. If your editorial calendar depends on what's happening on-chain or across the crypto ecosystem, this is the shortest path to that data inside your workspace.
Frequently asked
What does the CoinMarketCal MCP do in Switchy?
It connects your Switchy workspace to CoinMarketCal's cryptocurrency event calendar, letting AI agents query upcoming token launches, exchange listings, hard forks, and other market-moving events. Your team can ask questions like "what Ethereum events are scheduled this week" without leaving the chat. The MCP pulls live data from CoinMarketCal's database using your API key.
Do I need a paid CoinMarketCal account to use this MCP?
You need a CoinMarketCal API key, which typically requires a paid subscription depending on your usage tier. Free-tier keys may have rate limits that affect how many queries your team can run per day. Check CoinMarketCal's pricing page for current API access rules. Once you have the key, paste it into Switchy's connection settings.
Can this MCP write or edit events on CoinMarketCal?
No. The CoinMarketCal MCP is read-only — it queries event data but cannot create, modify, or delete calendar entries. If your team needs to submit events, you'll still use CoinMarketCal's web interface directly. This keeps your workspace safe from accidental edits during AI conversations.
How is this different from just checking CoinMarketCal's website?
The MCP lets AI agents pull event data into your workflow without context-switching. Instead of opening a browser tab, filtering dates, and copying results, your team asks natural-language questions in Switchy and gets structured answers instantly. It's faster for repetitive lookups and works inside broader research prompts.
Who on my team should connect the CoinMarketCal API key?
Whoever owns your CoinMarketCal subscription or has access to the API key. Once connected, all workspace members can query events through the MCP — they don't need individual keys. If you're a crypto research team, the analyst or ops lead usually handles this. The key stays encrypted in Switchy's vault.