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How to Connect Your Kraken Exchange Account with Altrady

This article clovers how to connect a Kraken APi key with Altrady.

If you already have a live Kraken trading account and need to add one or more extra API keys to it, see Step-8 below.



Step-1:

  • Login to Altrady and navigate to: Settings>Exchange Account API keys.
  • Click + Connect Account.



Step-2:

  • Select Kraken from the dropdown list.



Step-3:

Copy Altrady's IP whitelist to your clipboard by clicking the Copy icon.

Keep your Altrady app open in a tab or window while accessing Kraken.



Step-4:

  • Log into your Kraken account.


Step-5:


  • Click on the profile button from the navigation bar and select the Security option.



Step-6:


  • Select the Connections & API tab
  • Then click Create API Key.




Step-7:

  1. Assign a name to the API key under Name
  2. Set the permissions as shown below
  3. Enable Websocket interface
  4. Enable IP address restriction. Then paste Altrady's IP whitelist from your clipboard into the field below.
  5. Enable Custom Nonce Window and set it to 5000, as shown below
  6. Optionally, set the Key expiration, Query start date/time, and Query end date/time.


Click: Generate Key.



Nonce Window is the time allowed for an order to be processed in milliseconds. Set the Nonce Window at 5000 (5 seconds) to ensure that orders are provided with ample time to be processed during the busy hours.


Step-8:

A window will be opened, showing your API key and Secret Key (i.e. Private Key).

  1. Paste the API key and secret into Altrady
  2. Close the API key modal in Kraken.
  3. Create another API key on Kraken using the same instructions as above, and the same IP whitelist. The purpose of having more than one API key for your Altrady account is to allow us to place and cancel multiple orders quickly while avoiding rate limit errors. These are errors and restrictions some exchanges impose when more than one instruction is sent by API in quick succession, such as when placing orders with multiple components (entry and exit orders) or running a grid bot.
  4. Adding more API keys in the Future: While we recommend a minimum of two API keys per Altrady Kraken account initially, it is possible to add up to 10. If you ever incur rate limit errors on your Kraken trading account using Altrady, add another API key. To do this, edit your existing Kraken trading account on the Exchange Accounts API keys page in Altrady; then click ++ Add Extra Key, as shown in the image below (4). Then create one or more new API keys on Kraken as above, using the same IP whitelist. Paste them in Altrady, and click Connect.
  5. Click Connect




Step-9:

Click Next to connect the account



Step-10:

Click Complete to finalise the process.




Step-11:

If your balances haven't yet updated from the exchange, find out how to quickly update them:


If you still have any questions, please feel free to chat with our customer support service.

Updated on: 21/04/2026

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