A real trading desk has 4 teams. You can build all 4 with free GitHub repos. THE DATA CCXT MCP → Claude reads prices and candles from Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Hyperliquid http://github.com/Nayshins/mcp-server-ccxt DexPaprika MCP → live DEX, pool and token data across 36 chains http://github.com/coinpaprika/dexpaprika-mcp THE ANALYSTS TradingAgents → AI analysts, researchers and risk managers debate every trade http://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents THE PRACTICE FLOOR Crypto Claude Desk → a multi agent desk inside Claude Code, paper trading only http://github.com/hugoguerrap/crypto-claude-desk THE ENGINE Freqtrade → battle tested bot with backtesting and dry run mode http://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade Backtest first. Paper trade second. Real money last.