Bitcoin Price Skill

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.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as BitcoinPriceSkill. 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": "BitcoinPriceSkill",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill 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": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.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.

Argument	Type	Description
`currency`OptionalPremium	string	The currency to get the price in default USD
`hourly`OptionalPremium	boolean	Include 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.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`currency`	string	`USD`	Currency code in which price is quoted
`price`	number	`97250.43`	Current Bitcoin price in specified currency
`marketCap`Premium	number	`1928000000000`	Total market capitalization in specified currency
`volume24h`Premium	number	`35420000000`	24-hour trading volume in specified currency
`change24h`Premium	number	`-1.52`	Percentage price change over the last 24 hours
`lastUpdated`	string	`2026-02-07T12:00:00.000Z`	ISO 8601 timestamp of the last price update
`high24h`Premium	number	`98750.21`	Highest price in the last 24 hours
`low24h`Premium	number	`96125.88`	Lowest price in the last 24 hours
`changeDirection`	string	`down`	Price movement direction: up, down, or unchanged
`formatted`	object	`{…}`	Price, market cap and volume as human-readable strings
`formatted.price`Premium	string	`$97,250.43`	Formatted price with currency symbol and thousands separator
`formatted.marketCap`Premium	string	`$1.93T`	Formatted market cap in human-readable units (T, B, M)
`formatted.volume`Premium	string	`$35.42B`	Formatted 24-hour volume in human-readable units
`formatted.priceWords`Premium	string	`ninety-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars`	Price written out in English words for accessibility

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.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out 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 Skill

Set up Bitcoin Price Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit 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 →

Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →

Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContext →Reference →