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Welcome to the FinFeedAPI Blog. Here you’ll find fresh insights and helpful guides for anyone using our APIs — from stocks and crypto to prediction markets, forex, and more.

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General Knowledge
The Beginner’s Guide to Event Risk: Earnings, Filings, and Election Shocks
Learn how earnings reports, SEC filings, and elections create sudden market volatility. See how traders use real-time data and prediction markets to track shifting expectations before markets fully react.
General Knowledge
From News to Markets: The 4 Data Layers That Move Prices
Price is just the final chapter; to stay ahead, you must track how data flows from filings and predictions into stocks and FX. This is the "momentum of truth" that defines every market move.
Exchanges
Myriad Markets Explained: On-Chain Prediction Trading With Real Liquidity
Myriad Markets is an on-chain prediction platform where users trade event outcomes using stablecoins and non-custodial wallets. It combines AMM pricing with order book trading to deliver real-time probability signals.
Exchanges
Manifold Markets: How a Play-Money Prediction Exchange Actually Works
Manifold Markets is a prediction platform where users trade on future events using virtual currency instead of real money. Its flexible, user-created markets and instant pricing system make it a fast, experimental space for tracking how people think about the future.
Exchanges
What Is Kalshi? Inside the First Regulated Prediction Market Exchange
What Is Kalshi? Understanding Regulated Prediction Market Data and How to Use It.
Exchanges
Inside Polymarket: Data, APIs, and Real-World Use Cases
Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market that turns real-world events into live, tradable probabilities. Developers use Polymarket data for real-time signals, analytics, trading systems, and AI.
API technology
Why Use MCP Instead of a Standard API Integration?
MCP exposes APIs as structured tools, so AI agents and bots can discover, validate, and query data automatically without manual integration or hardcoded logic.
General Knowledge
Best Ethereum APIs – How Developers Actually Build Data Stacks
Building on Ethereum now requires multiple APIs across chains. This guide covers the key ones and how FinFeedAPI adds a forward-looking data layer.
Use Case
How AI Agents Can Use MCP to Fetch Currency Data Without Custom Integrations
Most AI agents fail not because they’re not smart, but because they can’t access data cleanly. MCP changes that.
How to
7 Mistakes Teams Make When Using Exchange Rates in Production
Currency conversion works in demos but often breaks in production. Learn the most common exchange rate mistakes and how to fix them.
How to
Real-Time vs Historical Exchange Rates: Which One Should Your App Use?
Learn the difference between real-time and historical exchange rates, and how to use each correctly in pricing, checkout, and financial reporting.
How to
How to Calculate VAT, GST, or Sales Tax After Currency Conversion
Small mistakes in currency conversion can lead to big tax inconsistencies. Here’s how to avoid mismatched totals and broken checkout experiences.
How to
How to Convert Prices on a Marketplace in Real Time Without Breaking Checkout
Displaying prices in multiple currencies is easy. Keeping them accurate across browsing and checkout is where most marketplaces fail.
Use Case
How to Backtest Event Strategies Using SEC + Prediction Markets + Stocks + FX
Event driven backtesting works best when you use precise event timing. Align SEC filing timestamps with stock, prediction market, and FX data to see how markets react and when.
Use Case
The Death of Manual Parsing: Why SEC EDGAR Data is Finally Becoming Machine-Readable
Stop wasting hours on brittle scraping. FinFeedAPI kills manual parsing by turning messy SEC EDGAR filings into structured, AI-ready JSON. Pull 8-K items or XBRL financials instantly and build fintech tools that actually scale.
Use Case
Designing an Event-Driven Trading System Using Prediction Market Data
Design an event-driven trading system using prediction markets data and learn how to integrate real-time forecasting signals into your strategy with a unified prediction markets API.
Improvements
FinFeedAPI MCP Upgrade: Key Changes and What They Mean for Your Data Workflows
FinFeedAPI introduces a redesigned MCP API with improved structure, consistency, and performance across currencies, SEC filings, and prediction market data along with a required migration from /sse to /mcp.
General Knowledge
What Is Event-Driven Data and Why It’s Different from Stock Market Data?
Event-driven data tracks how market expectations evolve around real-world outcomes. Unlike stock market data, prediction market data turns events into tradable probabilities through a prediction markets API.
Product Features
Technicalities of Prediction Market Data
Working with prediction market data requires more than reading prices. Learn how to handle schemas, OHLCV, order books, and resolution using a modern prediction markets API.
General Knowledge
Prediction Markets vs Options Markets: What’s the Difference?
Prediction markets price real-world outcomes. Options markets price risk and volatility. Knowing the difference helps you read and use market data correctly.