Paradex MCP Server

The Paradex MCP server bridges AI assistants with the Paradex perpetual futures platform, turning conversational agents into powerful trading tools. By exposing a set of REST‑style resources and executable tools through the Model Context Protocol, it lets developers query real‑time market data, manage vaults, and execute orders—all from within a single AI workflow. This eliminates the need for custom API wrappers or SDKs, allowing rapid prototyping and deployment of algorithmic strategies directly in the assistant’s context.

At its core, the server offers a clean separation between system state, market data, and account management. System resources provide configuration snapshots and uptime metrics, while market resources expose listings, summaries, funding rates, orderbooks, and historical candlesticks. Vault resources let assistants inspect balances, positions, transfer history, and account summaries in a single call. Complementing these resources are tools that perform the same operations but with richer, typed outputs and optional parameters—ideal for interactive prompts where a user can tweak depth or date ranges on the fly.

The value proposition lies in its workflow‑oriented design. A developer can ask an assistant to “show me the top 5 long positions in BTC‑USD on testnet” and receive a structured response, then immediately invoke an order placement tool to adjust those positions—all without leaving the conversational interface. This tight integration is especially useful for rapid backtesting, live monitoring dashboards, or automated risk management systems that need to react to market events in real time.

Real‑world scenarios include:

• Algorithmic trading – Build a strategy that monitors funding rates, places hedges when thresholds are crossed, and reports P&L back to a dashboard.
• Portfolio monitoring – Let an assistant fetch vault balances and positions, compute exposure ratios, and alert users when limits are breached.
• Educational tools – Provide students with a sandboxed testnet environment where they can experiment with order types and see immediate results.
• Compliance & audit – Generate account summaries and transfer histories on demand for regulatory reporting.

What sets Paradex MCP apart is its native support for both testnet and mainnet via a single environment variable, enabling developers to iterate safely before going live. The server’s resource URIs follow a predictable pattern (), making them easy to reference in prompts. Additionally, the toolset includes high‑level helpers such as and , which abstract away pagination or rate‑limit concerns, letting assistants focus on decision logic rather than plumbing.

In short, the Paradex MCP server transforms a complex trading API into a conversationally friendly interface. It empowers developers to weave sophisticated financial operations directly into AI assistants, opening the door to smarter trading bots, interactive analytics, and seamless integration with existing development pipelines.