How We Built Hashlock Markets: Intent-Based Crypto Trading for AI Agents

Sealed-bid RFQs, HTLC atomic settlement, and a Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude trade for you. Trading crypto OTC has always been a trust problem. You find a counterparty on Telegram, negotiate a price, and hope nobody front-runs or ghosts. Institutions do it over Bloomberg chat. Retail does it on DEXs and eats slippage. We built Hashlock Markets to fix both sides — and then we gave AI agents the keys. What is Hashlock Markets? Hashlock Markets ( hashlock.markets ) is an intent-bas