Crypto news

Returns JSON with the latest crypto and blockchain news headlines from the last 72 hours (title, link, source, time, tone, people and organizations), from the GDELT global news graph.

Use this when you need crypto news headlines about bitcoin, ethereum, a token or the crypto market from recent articles.

Do not use for prices, full article text, social media posts or news older than 72 hours.

Price: 0.005 USDC per call (x402, eip155:8453). Typical response time: 1500 ms (p95).

Call it over HTTP (x402)

POST https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/v1/crypto-news. A request without payment gets 402 Payment Required with the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header; any x402 client signs an EIP-3009 authorization and retries with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or X-PAYMENT). Invalid input is answered with 400 and not charged.

curl -i -X POST https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/v1/crypto-news -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"hours":24,"limit":5}'
Pay to0x553a6288CeAcBC1C6ea41B0A994d2030a8bB668e
Asset0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 (USDC)
Amount5000 atomic units (0.005 USDC)
Authorization window60 s

Call it over MCP

Streamable HTTP at https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/mcp, tool blackwood_crypto_news. Payment goes in _meta["x402/payment"]; without it the tool returns the payment requirements.

Input

FieldTypeMeaning
token (optional)stringNarrow to one coin, chain or company, e.g. solana, xrp or coinbase (any crypto news when omitted)
hours (optional)integerHow far back to search, in hours (1-72, default 24)
limit (optional)integerMost articles to return (1-50, default 20), newest first

Example:

{
  "hours": 24,
  "limit": 5
}

Output

Real example:

{
  "token": null,
  "hours": 24,
  "count": 5,
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Hyderabad: 5 arrested in Rs 25 lakh robbery in crypto deal",
      "url": "https://aninews.in/news/national/general-news/hyderabad-5-arrested-in-rs-25-lakh-robbery-in-crypto-deal20261017214202/",
      "domain": "aninews.in",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T16:45:00.000Z",
      "tone": -6.78,
      "image": null,
      "persons": [
        "Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita",
        "Syed Ajaz",
        "Mohammed Faisal",
        "Guglavath Vijesh Kumar",
        "Syed Zakariya Ahmed",
        "Sumair Khan",
        "Faraz Hussain"
      ],
      "organizations": [
        "Nampally Police",
        "Himalayan Hotel At Bazarghat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Morning Minute: OKX Raises at $25B From Circle, Ripple, and StanChart",
      "url": "https://decrypt.co/380281/morning-minute-okx-raises-at-25b-from-circle-ripple-and-stanchart&t=Morning%20Minute:%20OKX%20Raises%20at%20$25B%20From%20Circle,%20Ripple,%20and%20StanChart&fnp_t=1792254492.2c1aa61f211d4848",
      "domain": "decrypt.co",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T16:45:00.000Z",
      "tone": -0.72,
      "image": "https://cdn.decrypt.co/resize/1024/height/512/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/okx-decrypt-style-gID_7.jpg",
      "persons": [
        "Tyler Warner",
        "Bitcoin Etfssaw"
      ],
      "organizations": [
        "New York Stock Exchange",
        "York Stock Exchange",
        "Blackrock",
        "Qube Research",
        "Intercontinental Exchange"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Chips Under Control?",
      "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/chips-under-control-1762163/",
      "domain": "miragenews.com",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T16:30:00.000Z",
      "tone": -1.39,
      "image": "https://www.mpg.de/27016264/original-1791212021.jpg?t=ZXlKM2FXUjBhQ0k2T0RRNExDSm9aV2xuYUhRaU9qUTNOeXdpWm1sMElqb2lZM0p2Y0NJc0ltWnBiR1ZmWlhoMFpXNXphVzl1SWpvaWFuQm5JaXdpYjJKcVgybGtJam95TnpBeE5qSTJOSDA9LS1kMGQ3ZTM4ZTI3OTg5ZmJhYzdlMGJmM2U4YzIxY2FiNzI5ZmJlM2Fh",
      "persons": [
        "Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham",
        "Edward Snowden",
        "Thomas Brandstetter",
        "Christof Paar",
        "Julian Speith"
      ],
      "organizations": [
        "Cryptographic Engineering Group Of Peter Schwabe",
        "Technology Nist",
        "Google",
        "Huawei",
        "Max Planck Institute For Security",
        "Microsoft",
        "Us National Institute Of Standards",
        "United States"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "This is How AI Gets Physical | The View From North Central Idaho",
      "url": "https://blog.joehuffman.org/2026/10/17/this-is-how-ai-gets-physical/",
      "domain": "joehuffman.org",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T16:30:00.000Z",
      "tone": 1.04,
      "image": null,
      "persons": [
        "Ethereum Sepolia"
      ],
      "organizations": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Who Really Owns the Bitcoin Inside BlackRock's ETF?",
      "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/cryptocurrency/2026/10/17/who-really-owns-the-bitcoin-inside-blackrocks-etf/",
      "domain": "247wallst.com",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T16:00:00.000Z",
      "tone": 3.16,
      "image": "https://247wallst.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/shutterstock-1933377095-huge-licensed-scaled.jpg",
      "persons": [
        "Blackrock Bitcoin",
        "Velishchuk Yevhen Shutterstock"
      ],
      "organizations": [
        "Anchorage Digital Bank",
        "Bitcoin Trust",
        "Blackrock Fund Advisors",
        "Blackrock"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lastIngestAt": "2026-10-17T16:47:08.395Z",
  "attribution": "Source: The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/)"
}
JSON Schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "token": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "hours": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "count": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "articles": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "domain": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "publishedAt": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "tone": {
            "type": [
              "number",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "image": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "persons": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "organizations": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "title",
          "url",
          "domain",
          "publishedAt",
          "tone",
          "image",
          "persons",
          "organizations"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "lastIngestAt": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "attribution": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "token",
    "hours",
    "count",
    "articles",
    "lastIngestAt",
    "attribution"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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