How to Connect your Crypto.com Exchange Account with Altrady

Introduction

Connecting a Crypto.com account to Altrady is a straightforward process, but it requires completing a few essential steps to ensure security and seamless functionality. This guide provides a walkthrough for the entire setup—from generating API keys on Crypto.com, to adding them in Altrady and configuring an extra key to prevent rate-limit issues.

By following the steps below, a Crypto.com trading account can be fully connected and ready to use in just a few minutes.

Step-1:

• Open Crypto.com/exchange in your browser and log in to your account.
• Open the account menu and select the Manage Account option.

Step-2:

• Select the API Management tab.

Step-3:

• Select the account for the API key to be created on. To connect a subaccount to Altrady, select the subaccount here.

Step-4:

• Once the relevant account has been selected, click Create a new API key.

Step-5:

• Enter a label for the API key being created and enter the 2FA code as requested by Crypto.com.
• To proceed further afterward, click Create API.

Step-6:

• Copy the secret key and note it down somewhere safe, as it will be required later. As stated within the same window, the secret key will only be shown once.
• Once Copy Secret Key is clicked, the secret key will be copied and the window will close.

**Step-7: **

• An API key will be generated, which should now be visible on the API management page.
• Click Edit next to the API key.

Step-8:

• On the next window, ensure that API Transaction is selected.
• Select Enable Trading.
• Click the copy button, to copy the API key.
• In the following steps, the API key and Secret will be pasted into Altrady, and the IP addresses from Altrady will be pasted into Crypto.com.

Step-9:

• Log into Altrady.
• Navigate to the Exchange Account API Keys page, via Settings.
• If required, enter your 5 word pass key.
• Click + Connect Account.

Step-10:

• Under Spot Only, select Crypto.com.

Step-11:

• Add a meaningful label
• Copy the API key and Secret from Crypto.com and paste it into Altrady.

Step-12:

• Copy all 10 of Altrady's IP addresses to the Crypto.com API key and click **Continue **(see GIF below).
• Enter the 2FA code when prompted by Crypto.com. Once entered, the key will be saved in Crypto.com.

Step-13:

• Click Save at the bottom of the window in Altrady.

Step-14:

• Click Add to finish creating the Crypto.com Trading account in Altrady.
• A second API key will be added in Steps 16 to 18, to avoid Rate Limit errors on the exchange. Do not skip this step.

Step-15:

A message should appear in the top-right, indicating that the account was successfully connect to Altrady.

Step-16: Adding an Extra Key

• Next we will add an Extra key to the primary key to avoid Rate limit errors from the exchange.
• By using multiple keys, Altrady can spread the load to make sure that the exchange's rate limit is not reached and trading is uninterrupted.
• First, in Altrady, Edit the Trading Account (API key) that was just added.

Step-17:

• Click +Add extra key, at the bottom of the window that is opened.

Step-18:

• To generate a new API key/Secret pair in Crypto.com, repeat the instructions as outlined from Step-1 to Step-4, using the same permissions.
• Copy the API key and secret from Crypto.com to the Extra Key area in Altrady.
• Copy Altrady's IP addresses to the API key in Crypto.com (see Step-8 above)
• Click Update.
• And in Crypto.com, click Save to save the new key pair.

Your Crypto.com Trading Account is now ready to use.

The Exchange Code for Crypto.com is CRO.

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Updated on: 01/12/2025