
The hosted, continuously-learning AI knowledge + chain layer for builders. Connect once and ship — Aries gets smarter every time the community hits a wall and solves it.
Why hosted Aries
Hosted Aries is the managed instance of the Aries MCP server — the read-only Alkanes + Subfrost companion. The difference that matters: it learns continuously from everyone who uses it. A fresh local clone starts from the static baseline with none of that accumulated knowledge.
Every builder's resolved problems feed a shared incident corpus. Hosted Aries gets smarter over time — a local clone you spin up today starts from the static baseline with none of that accumulated learning.
Aries records and recalls real-world gotchas — the surprising behaviours and dead ends that cost hours. Hit one, file it, and every future session (yours and everyone's) checks it before repeating the mistake.
Read-only access to the full Subfrost API — token and contract metadata, AMM pools, oracle prices, frBTC peg and DIESEL status, a raw RPC escape hatch — powered server-side. No bring-your-own key; fair per-tier usage limits instead.
Connect one HTTP MCP endpoint and go — no clone, no build, no local key. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop. Point your assistant at the endpoint with your beta key and it's fluent in Alkanes immediately.
claude mcp add --transport http aries-cloud https://aries.bragi.build/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_BETA_KEY" --scope user
Get a beta key from the Telegram group below. The same one-line connect works for Cursor and Claude Desktop's HTTP MCP config.
alkanes CLI.
What it enables
Real work done with Aries so far — on regtest and on the author's own projects. Specific and true beats inflated.
Scaffolded and stood up a working Orbitals Launchpad demo on regtest in a single day — contract plus frontend — as a concrete measure of how fast hosted Aries takes you from idea to a running build.
Actively used to port OPNet contracts to Alkanes. The author has been porting his own projects, and Aries is getting more proficient at this class of task as that porting work feeds the corpus.
Aries in action
Hosted Aries answers a protocol question with corpus-grounded facts, then scaffolds a contract — the same output you'd get in your own editor.
use alkanes_runtime::{declare_alkane, message::MessageDispatch, runtime::AlkaneResponder};
use alkanes_support::response::CallResponse;
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct Token;
#[derive(MessageDispatch)]
enum TokenMessage {
#[opcode(0)]
Initialize,
#[opcode(77)]
Exchange,
#[opcode(103)]
GetSigner,
}
impl AlkaneResponder for Token {}
declare_alkane!(Token, TokenMessage);
ICO — Alkanes Token Sale (Dual-Payment + Treasury Split) · orddao
opcodes
0 Initialize owner ‖ cap ‖ founder ‖ price_btc ‖ price_diesel ‖ end_block ‖ treasury ‖ name ‖ symbol
1 Buy amount_u64_le — mints from the public-sale pool (cap − founder)
3 CloseSale owner sig — permanently ends the sale
4 WithdrawDiesel owner sig — sweeps accrued DIESEL to the owner
… views: GetSold · GetCap · GetPriceBtc · GetTreasury · GetState
// BTC routes straight to your treasury — the contract never custodies it
let tx = self.transaction_object()?;
let paid: u64 = tx.output.iter()
.filter(|o| o.script_pubkey.as_bytes() == treasury_spk)
.map(|o| o.value.to_sat()).sum();
ensure!(paid >= amount * price_btc, "insufficient BTC to treasury");
Get started
Self-serve signup is on the way. For now, join the devs + testers group and ask for a test key — we'll get you connected.
Local / bring your own key
Aries is open. Clone the public repo, bring your own Subfrost API key, and run it locally over stdio. Be clear-eyed about the trade-off: local ships the static baseline knowledge — not the hosted instance's accumulated, continuously-growing learning.
# public repo
git clone https://github.com/bitbragi/alkanes-aries
cd alkanes-aries
npm install
cp .env.example .env # add your SUBFROST_API_KEY
npm run build
Setup details and MCP-client wiring are in the repo README.
Local Aries powers its chain reads with your own Subfrost API key. New Subfrost accounts can sign up through the referral below.
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