A week of intent-based trading for AI agents: five threads from the Hashlock Markets desk

A week of intent-based trading for AI agents: five threads from the Hashlock Markets desk The Model Context Protocol surface for crypto trading filled out fast over the last few weeks. Bybit shipped MCP coverage. Gemini added an agentic platform. Alpaca, Kraken, Hummingbot, TraderEvolution, and a handful of community wrappers are all in the same SERP now. The category is real, and it is crowding. This is a recap of the five threads we worked through here this week — what each one was about, why