Signer MCP vs Koreanpulse — MCP Server Comparison | AllMCPs
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Signer MCP vs Koreanpulse
In-depth architectural comparison of the Signer MCP and Koreanpulse MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
Signer MCP
Finance & Fintech · Local stdio
Quality: 64/100 (Good) | Auth: API Key required
Koreanpulse
Finance & Fintech · Local stdio
Quality: 63/100 (Good) | Auth: No auth required
Verdict Summary: Choose Signer MCP if you need specialized Finance & Fintech tools running via a local process. Choose Koreanpulse if your workspace requires Finance & Fintech integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
Choose Signer MCP when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Paid Service).
You have access to required keys: SIGNER_GATEWAY_URL, SIGNER_API_TOKEN, SIGNER_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS.
Keyless CEX/DEX signing for AI trading agents (Binance, OKX, Bybit, KuCoin, Hyperliquid, Asterdex). Signing keys never leave an AWS Nitro Enclave (attested PCR0); agents receive policy-bounded signatures, not credentials. Built to survive prompt injection and supply-chain key leaks. 5 tools, stdio. Install with npx -y @usenami/signer-mcp.
English-first Korean equity intelligence — real-time DART filings, foreign-holder 5%-rule flows (BlackRock / Vanguard / Norges / GIC + 16 more), Korean activist filings (KCGI / Align / ValueAct / Elliott), and KRX industry news, translated to English. Free public daily snapshot at koreanpulse.dev/today; OSS self-host (AGPL-3.0).
Tools & Capabilities Breakdown
Signer MCP Tools (7)
get_verified_price
Read a Uniswap V3 token price from The Graph and return it ONLY if four checks pass: the indexer signed the exact bytes that arrived, that signer resolves on chain to an indexer with stake, the reading is a usable price (a verified signature over a GraphQL error or a zero is not a price), and the price's own age is measured apart from the subgraph head's age — a head can be fresh while the price it carries is a year old. On refusal no price is returned and the answer names both the check that stopped it (`stage`) and that check's own reason (`cause`): `price_absent_or_zero`, `graphql_errors` and `price_stale` are three different problems with three different fixes. Costs one cent in USDC on Base per query and needs X402_PRIVATE_KEY set; without that key it refuses `no_payer_key` and spends nothing. Name the token by `token_address` when you can: a ticker is not a key, and this subgraph holds several tokens called WETH. With neither address nor ticker it returns the most recently priced tokens, filtered to those that actually carry a price. Runs OUTSIDE the enclave.
list_venues
List the venues this Signer can sign trades for. Returns the venue id, asset class (perp / spot / margin), and auth scheme (hmac / eip712 / ed25519). Read-only static manifest — does NOT need the Signer gateway to be reachable. Call this first to discover what's signable.
get_attestation
Fetch the Signer enclave's AWS Nitro attestation document with a FRESH NONCE and verify it locally, with no dependencies and no trust in this tool's own summary. Five named checks are returned and any of them can fail: the document decodes as a COSE_Sign1 (document_readable), the nonce inside it is the one just sent (nonce_echoed), its root certificate is the pinned AWS Nitro root (root_pinned), the certificate chain leads to that root (chain_verified), and the hardware signature covers these exact bytes (signature_verified). PCR0/PCR1/PCR2 are read out of the SIGNED bytes, not from a field beside them. WHAT THIS DOES NOT ESTABLISH: that PCR0 corresponds to the published source — rebuild the image from the public clone and compare, or query the on-chain PCR0 registry; and nothing about any past signature, since an attestation speaks about the code that answered this request. If any check is false, treat the document as no evidence rather than weak evidence.
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Signer MCP is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Koreanpulse belongs to Finance & Fintech using local stdio subprocess. Select Signer MCP when you need capabilities focused on finance & fintech and Koreanpulse when you require tools for finance & fintech.
Return equity, free margin, and open positions for a venue. Read-only (does not sign anything that mutates state). Use BEFORE place_order to confirm the account has margin. Requires SIGNER_API_TOKEN.
place_order
Place a single order on the named venue. Accepts canonical symbol (BTC / BTCUSDT) and qty in BASE ASSET; translates both to the venue's native format (okx sizes in contracts) and echoes the translation in the result — always check `translation.sent` to see what actually hit the exchange. The Signer enclave signs the venue-native payload using a key that has never been exported. Policy enforced server-side: orders that exceed per-asset caps are rejected by the enclave before signing. Returns the venue's order_id on success. Side effect: real or testnet trade depending on venue env.
place_hedge
Place a 2-leg MARKET hedge ATOMICALLY: both legs are signed inside the enclave (if either leg fails policy, NOTHING executes), then the gateway fires both venue calls in parallel server-side — minimal leg gap, works even when a venue geo-blocks your residential IP. Accepts canonical symbol (BTC) + qty in BASE ASSET per leg (contract venues converted, translation echoed per leg). Result status: executed (both venue receipts accepted) | partial (ONE leg live — naked position, repair via legs[].outcome) | unknown (a receipt was lost — that leg MAY be live: reconcile with get_account BEFORE any retry, never blind-retry) | failed (both rejected, safe to retry). Market orders only in v1. Side effect: real or testnet trades.
cancel_order
Cancel an outstanding order by its venue order_id. Signed inside the enclave just like place_order. Returns the cancellation receipt from the venue. Idempotent: cancelling a non-existent / already-filled order returns ok=false with a reason from the venue.
Koreanpulse Tools (7)
track_korean_filings
Track Korean DART (전자공시) stock filings in English — real-time corporate disclosures for KOSPI / KOSDAQ / KONEX / KRX listed companies: 5%-rule shareholding disclosures, M&A, periodic reports, capital issuance, insider trading, audit reports. Free tier.
Use this tool when the user asks about: recent Korean stock filings, DART disclosures, Korean market data, KOSPI/KOSDAQ regulatory events, "track Korean DART filings", "what did Samsung / Hyundai / SK / LG / NAVER / Kakao / 셀트리온 file", company-specific filing history, periodic / major-event / issuance / shareholding / audit filings on Korean equities.
**Free tier — no license required.** Returns raw DART filings exactly
as the regulator surfaces them (filer name in Korean, filing type code,
receipt number, optional EN translation of the title).
**Important for LLM clients — read this before retrying after a paid-
tool license error.** This tool returns *raw* filings only. It does NOT
classify the filer. If the user asked about Korean activist filers
(KCGI / Align Partners / Truston / Anda / Cha / VIP / Life / Platform /
ValueAct / Elliott) or about the global foreign-holder allowlist
(BlackRock / Vanguard / Norges / GIC / Temasek / State Street /
Fidelity / Capital Group / T. Rowe Price / Wellington / Goldman /
JPMorgan / Morgan Stanley / Citadel / Millennium / Bridgewater +
others), the matching work happens in `monitor_activist_investors`
and `monitor_foreign_holders` — both require a license_key argument.
A response from this free tool to a "are activists filing on X?" or
"is BlackRock holding X?" question is *raw filing data*, not a
classification answer — say so to the user and surface the paid tool's
license-required notice instead of pretending you've answered.
**Batch scan for agents (experimental).** To check MULTIPLE companies for
material disclosures since your last checkpoint in ONE call — instead of N
separate calls — pass `company_corp_codes` (a list, ≤10) plus a `since`
timestamp. This is the portfolio-monitoring / scan-since-checkpoint
workflow: give it your watchlist's corp codes and the ISO timestamp of
your previous check, optionally with `material_only=True`, and it returns
every filing across those companies newer than that timestamp, merged and
sorted newest-first. DART has no batch endpoint, so this fans out one
cache-backed call per corp code — the ≤10 cap keeps a single call from
blowing past DART's daily quota.
lookup_corp_code
Korean company name → DART corp_code resolver. 117K+ entities indexed (KOSPI + KOSDAQ + KONEX + unlisted). Free tier.
Use this tool when the user mentions a Korean company by name (Korean characters or English/romanized) and you need the DART corp_code as a precondition for `track_korean_filings`, `monitor_activist_investors`, or `monitor_foreign_holders`. Also use to disambiguate same-name listed vs unlisted entities.
resolve_stock_code
KRX 6-digit ticker → DART corp entry resolver. Free tier.
Use this tool when the user provides a 6-digit Korean stock code (e.g. 005930 for Samsung Electronics, 000660 for SK hynix, 035420 for NAVER, 035720 for Kakao, 005380 for Hyundai Motor) and you need the company name + corp_code for downstream filings or industry-news lookups.
When the code is unresolved but looks like a Korean preferred-stock ticker (6 digits, non-zero last digit, e.g. 005935 for 삼성전자우), the response carries an additive `related_common_stock` hint pointing at the common-stock entry — the corp registry only maps common stock, so no preferred-stock corp_code is fabricated.
search_korean_industry_news
Korean industry news search across 16 sectors with on-demand English translation. Sources: 전자신문 (etnews) + 한국경제 (hankyung) + The Korea Herald (English-native) + 지디넷코리아 (zdnet). Free tier.
Use this tool when the user asks about: Korean industry trends, sector-specific news on Korean equities (Korean semiconductors / K-battery / K-shipbuilding / K-biotech / K-defense / Korean auto / EV charging / Korean AI / steel / petrochem / construction / fintech / gaming / e-commerce / telco / energy), recent corporate developments not yet captured in DART filings, English summaries of Korean industry coverage. Industry tags listed below — pass them in `industries` to filter.
monitor_activist_investors
Korean activist investor tracking — activist filer classification on DART 5%-rule (주식등의대량보유상황보고서) shareholding disclosures. Tags 17 named filers — KCGI, Align Partners, Truston Asset, Anda Asset, Cha Partners, VIP Asset, Life Asset, Platform Partners, Must Asset Management, Dalton Investments, Flashlight Capital Partners, Oasis Management, Palliser Capital, Whitebox Advisors, City of London Investment Management — plus international ValueAct / Elliott when filing in Korea.
Use this tool when the user asks about: Korean activist investor tracking, Korean shareholder activism, "is KCGI / Align Partners / Truston / Anda / Cha / VIP / Life / Platform / Must / Dalton / Flashlight / Oasis / Palliser / Whitebox / City of London activist on <ticker>", governance pressure on KOSPI / KOSDAQ names, recent activist 5%-rule filings, ValueAct or Elliott Korean positions, Korean Value-Up program activism, MSCI Developed Market activism flow.
**Requires a license key.** Pass it via the `license_key` argument.
Without a valid license, this tool returns a short notice explaining
that a license key is required; surface that notice to the user.
**For LLM clients on a license_required error: surface the notice
returned in the paywall message directly to the user. Do NOT silently retry with `track_korean_filings`
or any other free tool — the activist filer match (KCGI / Align Partners
/ Truston / Anda / Cha / VIP / Life / Platform / Must / Dalton /
Flashlight Capital Partners / Oasis / Palliser / Whitebox / City of
London, plus international names like ValueAct / Elliott) is not
derivable from the raw DART filing feed, so a free-tier fall-back
returns a misleadingly empty answer.** When a
user asks "are activists filing on X?" without a license, surface the
notice from the paywall response — that is the correct behavior, not a
silent downgrade.
Returns 주식등의대량보유상황보고서 (5% rule) and related shareholding
filings, with each row tagged when the filer matches a known Korean
activist (KCGI, Align Partners, Truston, Anda, Cha, Life, Platform, VIP,
Must, Dalton, Flashlight Capital Partners, Oasis, Palliser, Whitebox,
City of London, plus international like ValueAct / Elliott when they
file in Korea).
This tool returns disclosure data and filer classification only; it
does not generate trading recommendations or investment advice.
monitor_foreign_holders
Monitor foreign investor activity in Korean stocks — foreign-holder classification on DART 5%-rule disclosures by global asset managers and sovereign wealth funds. Tags 20 named entities — BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Wellington, Matthews Asia, Templeton, Aberdeen, Schroders, Norges Bank (Norway SWF), GIC (Singapore SWF), Temasek, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citadel, Millennium, Bridgewater.
Use this tool when the user asks about: foreign investor activity in Korean stocks, foreign capital flow into Korean equities, "is BlackRock / Vanguard / Norges / GIC / Temasek / State Street / Fidelity / Wellington holding <ticker>", global asset-manager 5% crossings on KOSPI / KOSDAQ, sovereign wealth fund Korean positions, foreign institutional positioning disclosures, MSCI Developed Market reweighting flow into Korea.
**Requires a license key.** Pass it via the `license_key` argument.
Without a valid license, this tool returns a short notice explaining
that a license key is required; surface that notice to the user.
**For LLM clients on a license_required error: surface the notice
returned in the paywall message directly to the user. Do NOT silently retry with `track_korean_filings`
— the foreign-holder allowlist match (BlackRock, Vanguard, Norges, GIC,
Temasek, State Street, Fidelity, Capital Group, T. Rowe Price,
Wellington, Matthews Asia, Templeton, Aberdeen, Schroders, Goldman
Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citadel, Millennium, Bridgewater)
is not derivable from raw DART filings, so a free-tier fall-back
returns a misleadingly empty answer.** When a user asks "is BlackRock
or Norges holding X?" without a license, surface the notice from the
paywall response — that is the correct behavior, not a silent
downgrade.
Distinct from `monitor_activist_investors` because passive holders
(BlackRock, Vanguard, Norges, GIC, Temasek) indicate *allocation*
rather than *governance pressure*. Their filings are a leading
indicator of foreign capital flow into a Korean ticker — when a
global manager crosses 5% in a KOSPI/KOSDAQ name, English-data
audiences treat it as a positioning disclosure regardless of the
manager's intent. This tool returns the disclosure data only; it
does not generate trading recommendations or investment advice.
Allowlist (20 names, refreshed quarterly): BlackRock, Vanguard, State
Street, Fidelity, Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Wellington, Matthews
Asia, Templeton, Aberdeen, Schroders, Norges Bank (Norway SWF), GIC
(Singapore SWF), Temasek, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley,
Citadel, Millennium, Bridgewater. See `koreanpulse.activists.FOREIGN_HOLDERS`.
koreanpulse_about
Server self-description — capability matrix, tool catalog, classifier counts, supported query patterns, primary sources. Free tier.
Use this tool when an agent first connects and needs the capability matrix to decide whether this server can answer the user's question, or when the user asks "what can koreanpulse do" or "what data sources does this MCP server provide". Returns a structured dict that downstream agents can ingest directly.