What is mcp?

This project is an MCP server, a plugin format that lets AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex call external tools directly. This particular server gives an AI agent direct access to The Open Network, known as TON, a blockchain, without going through a middleman web gateway. Setup is a single JSON snippet added to a supported AI client's configuration, after which the assistant connects to the TON network automatically. The server exposes a wide set of tools. Some are read only, such as checking the balance of an address, looking up token balances and metadata, viewing recent transactions, checking whether a smart contract is deployed, and calling read only methods on contracts. Others let an AI agent actually trade: getting a live swap quote between TON's native coin and other tokens, building an unsigned transaction for a wallet owner to sign themselves, and even carrying out cross chain swaps that let someone pay in TON and receive funds on other blockchains such as Ethereum or Polygon through an escrow mechanism. The README stresses that the server itself never holds a private key, never signs a transaction, and never sends funds on a user's behalf, so trading tools only prepare transactions for the wallet owner to approve. One tool can generate a brand new wallet, complete with a recovery phrase and private key. The README is direct about the risk here: because the keys are created on the server and sent back over an encrypted connection, any wallet made this way should be treated as convenient but not fully secure, and operators can disable this specific tool with a configuration flag if they do not want it available. Beyond running locally through a single command, the project also supports being hosted as a shared web service, with API keys, per key rate limits, and configuration for things like which TON liteservers to use or whether to run on the TON testnet. The README does not state what open source license the project uses.