A week of intent-based trading for AI agents: five threads from the Hashlock Markets desk The Model Context Protocol surface for crypto trading filled out fast over the last few weeks. Bybit shipped MCP coverage. Gemini added an agentic platform. Alpaca, Kraken, Hummingbot, TraderEvolution, and a handful of community wrappers are all in the same SERP now. The category is real, and it is crowding. This is a recap of the five threads we worked through here this week — what each one was about, why it matters in a category that is suddenly busy, and what we think is going to matter most going forward. 1. Why public order books are not the right primitive for AI traders The week opened with the structural argument: public order books and transparent mempools were designed for humans clicking in browsers.…