Overview
Basilisk is a free market terminal for looking up token prices, trading activity, and what any wallet holds. You can use it without an account, an email address, or a payment. The figures shown on screen are also published as plain data, so an AI assistant can fetch them directly instead of a person reading them off a table.
Basilisk covers Cardano. Trading pairs come from DexScreener and GeckoTerminal, on-chain and wallet records from Koios, and ADA market figures from CoinGecko, with each source named in the documentation1. The project was built to fill the gap left by TapTools2, the Cardano analytics service that wound down3, and its code is published under an MIT license4.
Key Features
- Token prices without an account. The screener ranks Cardano tokens by price, trading volume, liquidity, and price change across several time windows, with separate tabs for trending tokens, gainers, losers, and newly listed pairs5.
- Look up any wallet by pasting an address. Enter an ADA handle or a Cardano address on the portfolio page and Basilisk returns what that wallet holds, its dollar value, staking rewards, and the stake pool it delegates to6.
- A data feed with no key and no signup. The site's figures are also served as raw data at their own web addresses, covering token lists, single tokens, price history over set time periods, wallet lookups, and an ADA market snapshot7. The documentation states the feed is free and public, with no key or signup1.
- A Cardano terminal an AI assistant can use. Basilisk hosts a Model Context Protocol server, a standard way for an assistant to call outside tools, offering six lookups the docs describe as read-only, covering tokens, wallets, the ADA price, and the newest block8.
- A scoreboard for Cardano lending, trading, and stablecoins. A dedicated page pulls total value locked, stablecoin supply, and the count of active protocols from DefiLlama on a ten-minute refresh9.
What to Expect
You land on a market page showing the ADA price, a short price chart, and a strip of the tokens that moved most, each loaded from live data2. The navigation splits into a screener, a DeFi board, a wallet lookup, a market dashboard, alerts, and a page written for AI agents. Nothing asks you to connect a wallet or sign in to look something up. Connecting a Cardano wallet is optional: the documentation says you do it only when you want to boost a token or comment on one. A boost is one free signal per wallet per day, and the trending list ranks by those boosts10.
For a developer, or for anyone running an AI assistant, setup is a single line: point the assistant at the Basilisk server address and the six lookups appear, with no key to request8. The documentation also maps the old TapTools endpoints onto their Basilisk equivalents, which matters to anyone who had built software against them11.
Coverage is a slice of Cardano trading rather than the whole chain. The live token feed names SundaeSwap, WingRiders, Minswap, and SaturnSwap as the decentralized exchanges behind its figures12, and the migration guide written for former TapTools users states plainly that Basilisk covers less ground and labels that coverage in its responses11.
