FurlPay for OpenBB: Giving the Open-Source Terminal an Execution Layer

Every serious financial-data platform in 2026 has converged on the same shape: rich data plus a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so AI agents can query it. OpenBB shipped Workspace MCP. Morningstar's MCP server is live inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot. Bloomberg is under pressure from a wave of $200-a-month AI alternatives. But every one of them stops at the same wall — they can research an asset, and they cannot act on it. The agent can tell you a fund is a five-star buy; it cannot buy it.

That gap is exactly the shape of FurlPay. Today we're releasing furlpay-openbb-plugin — an open-source backend that drops FurlPay's execution layer directly into the OpenBB Workspace canvas an analyst already lives in.

Research → Execute, in one workspace

The plugin registers as a standard OpenBB custom backend: it serves the widgets.json and apps.json that OpenBB expects, and ships a ready-made "Research to Execution" app with four tabs. It exposes two kinds of widgets — the data OpenBB users expect, and the execution OpenBB itself doesn't have.

• Data widgets — portfolio summary, open positions with live P&L, stablecoin balances across Solana and Base, x402 paywall revenue, and recent payments.
• Action widgets — Place Order (buy or sell a fractional position, funded in USDC), Auto-Invest (schedule a recurring DCA), and Send Stablecoins. Each is an OpenBB input form that posts to the FurlPay API and refreshes a blotter with the result.

[ Screen an asset in OpenBB ] ──> [ Place Order / DCA form ] ──> [ FurlPay API ]
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                                          fractional · USDC-funded · 24/7 · on-chain settle

Why stablecoins make this work

Because execution is fractional and stablecoin-funded, a $1 order works exactly like a $10,000 one — no bank rails, no market-hours gate, no minimums. An analyst in any country can screen the S&P 500 in OpenBB and dollar-cost-average into it with USDC from the same screen. The same rails settle agentic revenue: the x402 paywall widget shows per-resource calls and USDC earned, so an API that charges AI agents per call reconciles in the same dashboard where its owner trades.

Open source, clone-and-run

The plugin is MIT-licensed and runs on deterministic demo data out of the box — add http://localhost:7777 as a custom backend and every widget renders immediately, no account required. Set a FurlPay API key and the same widgets go live against your real portfolio, wallets, and paywalls. A 12-test suite asserts the exact OpenBB contract so a green run means it will register and render.

Bloomberg has the data. Morningstar has the research. OpenBB has the terminal. None of them move money. That's the layer we build — and now it lives inside the terminal too.

Get it at github.com/FurlPay/furlpay-openbb-plugin. It's the first of a series of composed integrations — pairing the open-source financial data stack with the one thing it's always been missing: rails that actually execute.