A crypto narrative tracker follows a theme over time. Market trackers such as DefiLlama and Sharpe rank token baskets by price and token flows, while media trackers such as Perception show how a story spreads across media, podcasts, and social.
See which crypto narratives are moving this week and who is driving them, with sources you can cite.
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Perception narrative momentumResultPerception search mentionsResultBrian Armstrong says customers can trade stocks through the Coinbase MCP, bringing the everything exchange to agents.
Coinbase added fixed-rate loans against bitcoin through Morpho Midnight, alongside its existing variable-rate loans.
Both sources point toward Coinbase widening what customers and their agents can do from one account.
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| Tool | What it tracks | Main sources | AI assistant / MCP access | Pricing model | Best for |
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| Perception | Media and conversation narratives: who said what, with the source behind each finding | Curated digital asset media, podcasts, filings, X, LinkedIn, and company newsrooms. 2.7 million records from 2,800+ sources, starting in 2011 | MCP, REST, and the Perception app. 5 free credits per day | From $249/mo, or $199 billed yearly. 5 free credits per day | Marketing, comms, and PR teams who need a sourced brief |
| DefiLlama | Market-cap-weighted category performance for coin baskets | Coin market caps, volumes, and category baskets. Method is on the tracker page. Data vendor is not listed | Public API for category performance. MCP: Not listed | Free public page. Free API documented at api.llama.fi | Watching which token categories moved by market cap |
| Dexu | Mindshare, KOL, and narrative intelligence across social platforms | X, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Telegram, and Instagram, plus market and on-chain data | Copilot plus 30 MCP tools on the homepage. Free plan lists 8 MCP tools | Free plan. Standard $40 and Advanced $650 on the Dexu pricing page | Traders, funds, researchers, and builders watching attention and KOLs |
| Kaito | Token and narrative mindshare, plus voice and company leaderboards | Social media, governance forums, Farcaster, Telegram, Medium, and podcast and conference transcripts | MCP included with all Pro plans. API is listed; pricing for API is sales-quoted | Enterprise Single-Seat $833/month billed annually | Tracking attention around accounts, tokens, and narrative rotation |
| LunarCrush | Social sentiment, mention volume, and the creators driving a topic | X, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok | MCP and API on paid plans. Hobby is limited to market-data endpoints | Individual $90/mo, Builder $300/mo, Scale $900/mo | Social engagement and attention metrics across crypto and other categories |
| Santiment | On-chain, social, development, and financial metrics as time series | Social, blockchain, financial, development, and community datasets | GraphQL API with every Sanbase plan. MCP: Not listed | Free; Sanbase Pro $49/mo; Sanbase Max $249/mo | Charting asset activity and social discussion over time |
| Messari | Thesis-driven research, protocol reports, and AI-classified topics | Research library plus Topics API coverage of social posts, articles, and other content | Messari Copilot and AI API are listed. MCP: Not listed | Basic and Enterprise. Enterprise list price: Not listed | Published protocol research and diligence |
| The Tie | Institutional terminal combining market, news, on-chain, developer, social, and sentiment data | Terminal data sets listed as market, derivatives, news, on-chain, sentiment, developer, and research | Data APIs. MCP: Not listed | Sales-quoted. No public Terminal list price | A broad institutional data workspace |
| Nebula | Financial social intelligence: sentiment, mindshare, narratives, and market actors | Social and market conversation plus financial news | REST, MCP, and CLI | Free access with every account. Usage-based paid plans. Dollar price: Not listed | Stocks-first social analytics and agent workflows |
| cookie.fun | Mindshare, sentiment, top voices, and project dashboards | X mindshare plus on-chain data, as described in Cookie docs | AI summaries on project pages. API listed. MCP: Not listed | Not listed | Crypto mindshare, sentiment, and KOL tracking by project |
| Sharpe | 30 curated narratives: market-cap-weighted performance, TVL, mindshare, and derivatives | CoinGecko market, community, and watchlist data, plus Binance USDT perps | REST API, MCP server, and CLI | Free, no signup | Watching sector rotation and narrative performance next to market dashboards |
| Vibewatch | Community sentiment and weekly reports with market context | Discord, Telegram, X, and other connected community platforms | MCP on every plan for Claude and ChatGPT | Lite from $19/mo. 7-day trial, no card | Web3 community and watchlist reporting for a team |
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Search digital asset mentions, companies, people, and narratives through MCP, REST, and the Perception app. The maintained record holds 2.7 million records from 2,800+ sources, starting in 2011.
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sourced briefs, mention reports, and recurring team questions. Built for marketing, comms, and PR teams.
The DefiLlama narrative tracker ranks coin categories by market-cap-weighted performance. It shows how a basket moved, with market cap, volume, and coin count, and it excludes stablecoins from sector baskets.
Consider it for
category performance and token flows. It does not show who is telling the story.
Crypto mindshare, KOL, and narrative intelligence across X, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Telegram, and Instagram, with market and on-chain data. The homepage lists 30 MCP tools; the free plan lists 8.
Consider it for
attention and KOL-led trends across platforms. Adjacent to Perception sourced briefs.
Mindshare views for voices, companies, tokens, and narratives, with sector and regional breakdowns. Kaito Pro indexes social media, governance forums, Farcaster, Telegram, Medium, and podcast and conference transcripts.
Consider it for
tracking attention around accounts and topics.
Social sentiment, mention volume, and creator rankings across crypto, stocks, brands, and other categories. The social listening page lists X, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok.
Consider it for
social engagement and attention metrics.
On-chain, social, development, and financial metrics for digital assets, with charts, screeners, alerts, and a GraphQL API.
Consider it for
time-series analysis of asset activity and social discussion.
Crypto research including protocol reports, asset deep dives, and a Topics API that classifies posts and articles into themes.
Consider it for
published analysis and protocol research.
An institutional terminal combining market, news, on-chain, developer, social, and sentiment data, with separate data APIs.
Consider it for
a broad institutional data workspace.
Financial social intelligence for equities and markets. Sentiment, mindshare, narratives, and market-actor data via the app, REST API, MCP, and CLI.
Consider it for
stocks-first social analytics and agent workflows. Adjacent to crypto mindshare peers.
Social and on-chain data across crypto sectors, including opinion leaders. Mindshare, sentiment, top voices, and project dashboards with AI summaries.
Consider it for
crypto mindshare, sentiment, and KOL tracking by project.
Narratives tracks 30 curated themes with market-cap-weighted performance, TVL, social mindshare, and derivatives overlays. Mindshare measures watchlist-weighted attention from CoinGecko data. Both products are free on the web terminal.
Consider it for
sector rotation and narrative performance next to market dashboards.
Community intelligence for web3 teams across Discord, Telegram, X, and other connected platforms, with weekly reports and market context.
Consider it for
community and watchlist reporting rather than cross-market mindshare.
DefiLlama answers how a category of coins performed. Perception answers how the story around that category is being told.
The DefiLlama narrative tracker is a market tracker. It weights each coin's price change by market cap, then averages those weighted changes into a category move. That is useful when you want to see whether AI, restaking, or memes attracted capital. It does not name the journalists, podcasts, or posts that carried the theme.
Perception is a media tracker. It follows how a theme spreads across media, podcasts, filings, and public conversation, and it keeps the source on each finding. Ask it in Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and open the mentions behind the answer.
Use both when the question has two parts: where capital moved, and who framed the move. For the method behind theme extraction, see crypto narrative analysis. Saved examples live in the narrative archive.
Run one question you already understand. Open its sources and check the date, author, and support for each finding.
Choose the output you need: a sourced brief, a mindshare or sentiment series, a journalist shortlist, or a market dashboard. Test that output in your actual tools.
Compare the endpoints, sources, history, usage allowance, and delivery options included in the plan you would buy.
A crypto narrative tracker follows a theme over time. Market trackers such as DefiLlama and Sharpe rank token baskets by price and token flows. Media trackers such as Perception show how a story spreads across media, podcasts, and social, and who is telling it.
A market tracker scores a basket of tokens: price, volume, TVL, or market-cap-weighted performance. A media tracker follows the conversation: outlets, podcasts, posts, and filings, with the source attached. Many teams use one of each.
DefiLlama ranks coin categories by market-cap-weighted performance. Perception tracks how a theme is discussed in media and conversation and keeps the sources. DefiLlama is stronger for category price moves. Perception is stronger for a sourced comms brief.
Perception, Dexu, Kaito, LunarCrush, Sharpe, Nebula, and Vibewatch publish MCP or assistant access on their public sites. Santiment, Messari, The Tie, cookie.fun, and DefiLlama list APIs or no assistant connector. Confirm the plan you would buy.
Start with 5 free credits per day in a supported AI client. Paid plans add monthly credit pools, REST API access, and the Perception app. Perception starts at $249 a month with 1,000 credits. See pricing for the current allowances.
See which crypto narratives are moving this week and who is driving them, with sources you can cite.
Free to start. No card. 5 credits a day.