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Bitcoin Price Grounding Data

Get Current Bitcoin Price

OperationalCredits 2 per callp50 366msFinance

Overview

Bitcoin Price works by fetching the latest market data for Bitcoin from multiple reliable sources. It returns the current price, market capitalization, 24-hour trading volume, and 24-hour percentage change. The data is refreshed hourly and can be returned in any supported currency.

Live Test Bitcoin Price Grounding Data Source →

The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveContext server, this appears in its tool list as BitcoinPriceGroundingData. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call
{
  "name": "BitcoinPriceGroundingData",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every source in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervecontext": {
      "url": "https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

ArgumentTypeDescription
currencyOptionalPremiumstringThe currency to get the price in
default USD
hourlyOptionalPremiumbooleanInclude hourly price data for the past 24 hours

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result
{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "price": 97250.43,
    "marketCap": 1928000000000,
    "volume24h": 35420000000,
    "change24h": -1.52,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-02-07T12:00:00.000Z",
    "high24h": 98750.21,
    "low24h": 96125.88,
    "changeDirection": "down",
    "formatted": {
      "price": "$97,250.43",
      "marketCap": "$1.93T",
      "volume": "$35.42B",
      "priceWords": "ninety-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars"
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

FieldTypeExampleDescription
currencystringUSDCurrency code in which price is quoted
pricenumber97250.43Current Bitcoin price in specified currency
marketCapPremiumnumber1928000000000Total market capitalization in specified currency
volume24hPremiumnumber3542000000024-hour trading volume in specified currency
change24hPremiumnumber-1.52Percentage price change over the last 24 hours
lastUpdatedstring2026-02-07T12:00:00.000ZISO 8601 timestamp of the last price update
high24hPremiumnumber98750.21Highest price in the last 24 hours
low24hPremiumnumber96125.88Lowest price in the last 24 hours
changeDirectionstringdownPrice movement direction: up, down, or unchanged
formattedobject{…}Price, market cap and volume as human-readable strings
formatted.pricePremiumstring$97,250.43Formatted price with currency symbol and thousands separator
formatted.marketCapPremiumstring$1.93TFormatted market cap in human-readable units (T, B, M)
formatted.volumePremiumstring$35.42BFormatted 24-hour volume in human-readable units
formatted.priceWordsPremiumstringninety-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollarsPrice written out in English words for accessibility

Why ground on it

A model can produce something that looks like this answer from its training data, and be confidently out of date or simply wrong. This source returns the current value in a shape you can check, which is the difference between an answer you can cite and one you have to hedge.

Point an evaluation at price: it is the field most worth pinning a claim to, and it is either present and current or absent — never plausibly invented.

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

StatusWhat it means
400 / 422The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
401The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
403Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
404This source is not part of VerveContext. Check the catalog.
429Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Crypto Wallet Balances
Multi-currency wallets convert satoshi balances into current fiat valuations using real-time price quotes and update timestamps.
Checkout Invoice Settlement
To calculate exact payment totals, merchant gateways lock in fiat-to-BTC amounts based on the latest price quote before generating payment QR codes.
Trading Terminal Indicators
When market trends shift, charting dashboards update visual ticker arrows directly from price movement direction indicators.
Accounting Ledger Conversions
Reconcile treasury holdings by attaching the exact timestamped Bitcoin valuation to every balance sheet entry at the close of business.

Other ways to use Bitcoin Price Grounding Data

Set up Bitcoin Price Grounding Data on VerveContext, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveContext account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →
Give it to an AI agentConnect over MCP and your agent calls it as a native tool — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT.VerveKit →Reference →
Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →

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