# Basis Desk

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/basisdesk-news/  
**Website:** https://basisdesk.news/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Basis Desk is an AI‑native crypto newsroom that delivers source‑verified news, live market data, and daily briefs without hype. It aggregates information from regulators, protocol teams, exchanges, and client releases, offering readers quick, sober insights into the cryptocurrency market.

## Kin Score — 12.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 65.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 5.4 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 13.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 6.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Basis Desk API** — Read‑only crypto market data and MCP server for news search. Provides ticker, snapshot, movers, sparklines, whale transfers and research datasets.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Basis Desk MCP Server** — Remote MCP server at basisdesk.news.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Basisdesk News Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (1)

- **Basisdesk News Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Cryptocurrency, News, Artificial Intelligence, Media, Data, Finance

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/basisdesk-news/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.