Wire Claude into Hashlock Markets in 10 minutes: a hands-on MCP tutorial

Hashlock Markets is an intent-based crypto trading platform built around two ideas that DeFi has talked about for years but rarely shipped together: sealed-bid RFQ so quotes are private, and HTLC atomic settlement so cross-chain trades complete or revert as a unit, with no escrow in the middle. Sitting in front of both is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server , which means any MCP-capable AI agent — Claude, GPT, a custom runtime — can drive the entire trading lifecycle without a human at the con