This article explores how Revolut engineers used Claude and MCP to build a functional trading system in 30 minutes, arguing that API surfaces are becoming the new product.
•Two Revolut X engineers connected Claude to Revolut's exchange API via Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling a working market-making operation in 30 minutes
•MCP standardizes how AI models discover and use external tools: expose your API through one MCP server once, and any compatible agent can use it
•The integration decouples effort from scale — one server built today can work with multiple AI systems tomorrow
•A market-making strategy that normally requires quants, developers, and weeks of backtesting was composed by Claude from plain English prompts
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The article argues that as MCP adoption grows, competitive moats shift from UI/feature design to API richness and execution quality
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