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title: "LunarCrush MCP in Slack: give an AI teammate social and market data | Chickpea"
description: "Use LunarCrush's MCP server from Slack. Give a channel an AI teammate that reads social volume, sentiment, topics, and creators for an asset. Open source."
canonical: https://chickpea.co/connectors/lunarcrush
keyword: "LunarCrush MCP in Slack"
verified: 2026-09-17
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# A LunarCrush teammate in Slack, running on LunarCrush's MCP server.

> Chickpea gives a channel a named AI teammate that holds its own LunarCrush connection. It calls LunarCrush's MCP server at [lunarcrush.ai/mcp](https://lunarcrush.com/developers/mcp) with an API key you paste once, so there is no client to configure. Ask it in Slack how loud a coin or a topic got this week, and the numbers land in the thread where the question came up. LunarCrush measures the conversation on X, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok, and the teammate reports what it measures.

Facts checked against the sources on September 17, 2026. The HTML page is at https://chickpea.co/connectors/lunarcrush; every connector is listed at https://chickpea.co/connectors; the site index for agents is at https://chickpea.co/llms.txt.

**LunarCrush** (LunarCrush, https://lunarcrush.com): Analyze social activity and market signals for digital assets. Category: Data and infrastructure. Lane: Vendor MCP server. Sign in: API key.

**Chickpea**: an open source Slack app that gives a workspace named AI teammates, each with its own handle, instructions, memory, connected accounts, schedules, and model, deployed to your own Cloudflare account or a Node host.

## What people ask it
The teammate in these examples is @growth, published to #growth.

### Social volume and sentiment for a coin or a topic
- @growth how did social volume and sentiment for solana move this week
- @growth what has mention volume for the AI category done since Monday

A read, so it goes straight through, and a week of numbers comes back as a table. LunarCrush documents a coins endpoint that returns price, market cap, Galaxy Score, AltRank, sentiment, and 24-hour social volume for every asset it tracks. The teammate reports those figures and stops there.

### Which topics are trending
- @growth which topics are getting the most engagement right now
- @growth what is moving in the stocks category today that was quiet last week

LunarCrush groups its endpoints into topics, categories, coins, and stocks, and says it tracks 40+ categories across crypto, stocks, sports, and brands. Ask what is loud and the teammate names the topics and the numbers behind them. It cannot say why a topic moved, so it doesn't.

### Who is driving the conversation
- @growth who are the top creators posting about ethereum this week
- @growth which accounts drove the engagement spike in the AI category

LunarCrush documents a creators endpoint that returns the most influential creators in a category, and a posts endpoint that returns the top social posts for a topic. The answer is a list of accounts with their reach, so the channel can go and read the posts themselves.

### Compare two assets side by side
- @growth put bitcoin and ethereum next to each other on social volume, sentiment, and galaxy score
- @growth compare the two assets in this thread on mentions over the last seven days

Two reads and one table. Galaxy Score is LunarCrush's 0 to 100 composite of social activity, sentiment, and market momentum; AltRank is its relative ranking, where 1 is the strongest across everything it tracks. The teammate lines the numbers up and names the metric each column is.

### On a schedule
- @growth every weekday at 8am Eastern, post social volume and sentiment for the topics we follow
- @growth every Monday at 9am Pacific, post the biggest movers on mentions from the past week

A schedule saves on the spot. It needs an explicit time zone, runs under the LunarCrush connection of the person who asked, and is paused rather than run if that connection goes away. Every run counts against your plan quota, so keep the list of topics short.

### Example conversations

**Social volume this week**
> **Dana:** @growth how did social volume and sentiment for solana move this week?
> **@growth:** Louder and warmer than last week. Sep 11 to Sep 17 against the seven days before it.
>
> | Metric | This week | Last week | Change |
> |---|---|---|---|
> | Mentions | 184,200 | 121,700 | +51% |
> | Engagements | 12.4M | 9.1M | +36% |
> | Sentiment | 74% positive | 68% positive | +6 pts |
> | Galaxy Score | 68 | 54 | +14 |
> | AltRank | 9 | 31 | up 22 |
> **@growth:** Galaxy Score is LunarCrush’s 0 to 100 blend of social activity, sentiment, and market momentum. These are measurements, not a recommendation.

**What is trending**
> **Marco:** @growth which topics are getting the most engagement right now?
> **@growth:** Top of the last 24 hours by engagement: bitcoin, ai, ethereum, then solana and gaming. The one that actually moved is gaming, up 3.1x on mentions from a quiet week. Everything above it was already loud yesterday. I can pull the posts behind the gaming spike if you want them.

**Who is posting**
> **Priya:** @growth who are the top creators posting about ethereum this week?
> **@growth:** Five accounts carried most of the reach: @cyanreef on X, @orbitkade on X, @nightbus on YouTube, @tenpointfive on Reddit, and @lowtidefm on TikTok. Between them that is 41% of the week’s engagements on the topic. The posts LunarCrush ranked highest

**Compare two assets**
> **Sofia:** @growth put bitcoin and ethereum next to each other on social volume, sentiment, and galaxy score.
> **@growth:** Both read just now, same seven-day window. Bitcoin is bigger on every raw count. Ethereum grew faster from a smaller base.
>
> | Metric | Bitcoin | Ethereum |
> |---|---|---|
> | Mentions, 7d | 1.42M | 386,000 |
> | Week on week | +8% | +29% |
> | Sentiment | 71% positive | 77% positive |
> | Galaxy Score | 61 | 73 |
> | AltRank | 24 | 6 |

**Every weekday**
> **Dana:** @growth every weekday at 8am Eastern, post social volume and sentiment for the topics we follow.
> **@growth:** Saved. Weekdays at 8:00 AM Eastern I’ll post mentions, engagements, and sentiment for the nine topics in the pinned list, with yesterday’s numbers beside them, in #growth. First run is Thu Sep 18. It runs on the LunarCrush connection, so say "pause the morning digest" to stop it.

## Connect LunarCrush
1. In LunarCrush, sign in and open [the API keys page](https://lunarcrush.com/developers/api/authentication) to create a key. LunarCrush says the same key powers its webapp, its CLI, and its MCP server, and that you can hold up to five active keys at once.
2. In Chickpea Admin, open the teammate, then **Connections**, find **LunarCrush**, and choose **Connect**. Or ask in Slack, `@growth connect LunarCrush`, and follow the link it posts.
3. Choose who uses it. **Team** is one shared key that everyone who can use the teammate acts through, on one quota. **Personal** means each member pastes their own key and spends their own requests.
4. Paste the key into the write-only **Credential** field. Chickpea stores it once on your deployment, never returns it to the browser, and sends it as an `Authorization` bearer header. Nothing is ever pasted into Slack.
5. Chickpea connects to [lunarcrush.ai/mcp](https://lunarcrush.com/developers/mcp) before it saves anything and records the tools the server answered with. Then ask something small. `@growth what is the galaxy score for bitcoin` is one call and one number.

A connection belongs to one teammate. Giving a second teammate LunarCrush means a second key, so the growth teammate and the pm teammate draw on separate quotas.

## What the teammate is handed with LunarCrush
There is no built-in Chickpea skill for LunarCrush, and none is needed. The tools arrive from LunarCrush's MCP server: Chickpea connects before it saves anything, records what the server answered with, and exposes only those tools. LunarCrush's documentation names no tool names, but it does name the nine endpoint groups the same key reaches, which are AI & MCP Server, Topics, Categories, Creators, Posts, Coins, Stocks, Searches, and System.

LunarCrush documents the server, its URL, and how it authenticates: https://lunarcrush.com/developers/mcp

## Beside LunarCrush
- **Exa:** The mention count from LunarCrush, the articles behind it from Exa
- **Firecrawl:** A topic got loud, and Firecrawl reads the pages that made it loud
- **PostHog:** What the market is talking about, beside what people did in your product
- **Google Analytics:** A spike in social mentions, checked against the traffic it sent you
- All 37 connectors: https://chickpea.co/connectors

## Questions people ask

### What is the LunarCrush MCP server?
A hosted endpoint LunarCrush runs at lunarcrush.ai/mcp that exposes its social data as tools an AI agent can call. LunarCrush describes it as putting the platform's social intelligence into Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-aware client, authenticated with the same bearer API key as the rest of its API. Chickpea connects to that same server, so a teammate in a Slack channel uses it with no client installed anywhere.

### Is the LunarCrush MCP free?
Not for the social data. LunarCrush's developer docs say every request counts against your plan's per-minute and daily quota, and that the free Hobby tier is limited to market-data endpoints. Social, creator, and AI endpoints need a paid plan. Chickpea itself adds nothing on top: it is Apache 2.0, runs on your own Cloudflare account, and has no seats and no metering.

### Which LunarCrush plan does this need?
A paid one, for anything social. LunarCrush's docs list Hobby at 4 requests a minute and 100 a day on market-data endpoints only, Individual at 10 a minute and 2,000 a day on limited endpoints, Builder at 100 a minute and 20,000 a day on every endpoint, Scale at 500 a minute and 100,000 a day, and Enterprise as custom. Its pricing page puts Individual at $90 a month, Builder at $300, and Scale at $900, with annual rates lower. Read lunarcrush.com/pricing before you budget, because rates change.

### Does it use LunarCrush's MCP server or the API?
The MCP server. LunarCrush is a vendor MCP lane: the deployment connects to lunarcrush.ai/mcp over streamable HTTP and sends your key as a bearer token. Chickpea writes no LunarCrush endpoints of its own, and the connection cannot reach any other address.

### Can I add LunarCrush MCP to Claude or Cursor instead?
Yes, and LunarCrush documents both. Its MCP page gives a Claude Desktop config that runs the server through `mcp-remote`, and a URL-and-header config for Cursor and other clients that take one. Those put the data in one person's editor. A teammate puts it in a channel, with a stored connection, saved instructions, schedules, and every answer visible in the thread where someone asked. Plenty of teams run both.

### What is a Galaxy Score?
LunarCrush's own definition: a 0 to 100 composite score that combines social activity, sentiment, and market momentum into a single number, updated in real time for every cryptocurrency and stock it tracks. LunarCrush says a reading above 50 indicates above-average community engagement and market performance. Its other proprietary metric, AltRank, is relative rather than absolute, where rank 1 is the strongest combined social and market momentum across the whole tracked universe at that moment.

### Is this investment advice?
No. This is data, not advice. The teammate reports what LunarCrush measures, which is social volume, sentiment, creators, and market metrics, and it names the metric behind every number it posts. It is not a licensed adviser and neither is Chickpea. What you do with a Galaxy Score is your decision and your risk.

### Can it place a trade, or delete anything?
No. This connector holds one credential, your LunarCrush API key, and reaches one address, lunarcrush.ai/mcp. There is no exchange, no wallet, and no broker anywhere in it. LunarCrush's API is a data API, so there is nothing to delete either. On top of that, during a Slack turn Chickpea refuses any MCP tool whose name does not start with an unambiguous read verb unless your own message names that action.

### Is this LunarCrush's own AI product?
No, and the two sit next to each other. LunarCrush publishes an AI reference at lunarcrush.ai, which serves the same data as LLM-ready markdown addressable by topic, creator, category, or post, and it markets a LunarCrush + Claude page that describes the MCP server giving Claude Code access to social sentiment, trending topics, creator metrics, and market signals. Chickpea is the Slack side of the same server. You bring your own LunarCrush key, and the teammate answers in a channel rather than in an editor.

### Where does the API key live?
On your deployment, in a write-only Credential field outside the teammate record. It never enters the model's context, the tool arguments the model writes, or Slack. The model picks a connection by id and the key goes into the Authorization header at the last step on the way out. Disconnect the account and the stored secret is removed, after any schedule that depended on it is paused. LunarCrush lets you hold five keys and revoke any of them, so a key given to a teammate can be retired on their side too.

## Sources
- [Chickpea docs: connector catalog, the LunarCrush preset, its lane and its bearer key](https://docs.chickpea.co/reference/connector-catalog/)
- [Chickpea docs: connections, team and personal accounts, the binding as a ceiling](https://docs.chickpea.co/agents/connections/)
- [Chickpea docs: authority and confirmation, including the read-verb gate on MCP tools](https://docs.chickpea.co/security/authority-and-confirmation/)
- [Chickpea docs: connect a service, the write-only credential field and the Slack link](https://docs.chickpea.co/agents/connect-a-service/)
- [Chickpea docs: schedules, time zones and what a paused schedule does](https://docs.chickpea.co/agents/schedules/)
- [Chickpea source: the LunarCrush preset (server URL, transport, bearer key)](https://github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea/blob/main/src/config/presets.ts)
- [Chickpea source: an MCP connection exposes approved tools that are still discovered](https://github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea/blob/main/src/config/types.ts)
- [LunarCrush docs: the MCP server, its URL, the bearer key, and the client configs](https://lunarcrush.com/developers/mcp)
- [LunarCrush docs: the developer hub, the nine endpoint groups, and what the API returns](https://lunarcrush.com/developers)
- [LunarCrush docs: API keys, the five-key limit, and the per-plan rate limits](https://lunarcrush.com/developers/api/authentication)
- [LunarCrush: pricing, the plan names and their monthly rates](https://lunarcrush.com/pricing)
- [LunarCrush: Galaxy Score, the 0 to 100 composite and what it combines](https://lunarcrush.com/metrics/galaxy-score)
- [LunarCrush: AltRank, the relative social and market ranking](https://lunarcrush.com/metrics/altrank)
- [LunarCrush: the products page, the 40+ categories and the sources behind them](https://lunarcrush.com/products)
- [LunarCrush: the LunarCrush + Claude page, in the vendor's own words](https://lunarcrush.com/products/lunarcrush-claude)
- [Chickpea source on GitHub](https://github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea)

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