How to Connect Your KuCoin Exchange Account with Altrady
To get started with a seamless trading experience on Altrady, you need to connect your cryptocurrency exchange with our platform. In this guide, we have illustrated 13 easy steps to help you connect your KuCoin exchange account with Altrady via API.
Within this article, 2 methods of connecting your KuCoin account to Altrady will be described:
- Fast Connect, for quick and automatic setup.
- Manual Connection, for users who prefer a more hands-on approach.
Fast Connect, simplifies the process by:
- Redirecting you to KuCoin for a secure login.
- Automatically generating, configuring and connecting the KuCoin API key (with the correct permissions).
- Automatically applying Altrady’s IP whitelist to the API key.
Manual Connection, by contrast, involves:
- Manually logging into KuCoin.
- Manually creating the API key.
- Copying and pasting the API and Secret key into Altrady.
- Manually setting permissions and pasting Altrady's IP whitelist addresses in KuCoin.
Contents
KuCoin Fast Connect
Fast Connect is a quick and automated way, to link your KuCoin exchange account to the Altrady platform without manually creating and copying API keys and secrets.
Step-1: In Altrady, click on Settings **from the left side panel. Then, click on **Exchange Account API Keys.
Step-2: ** Click **+Add Account.
Step-3: **Click on **KuCoin.
Step-4: Ensure **Fast Connect **is selected. Choose whether you would like to enable Futures trading on the API key, then click **Connect, **to be redirected to the KuCoin log in page.
Step-5: Choose the login method and enter the required details, then click **Next **(if applicable). If email/phone number or sub-account was selected as the login method, you will also be required to enter a password.
**Step-6: **Complete all the necessary verifications, as requested by KuCoin.
Step-7: After clicking submit on the previous step, a window will be shown, requesting that access is granted to Altrady to create the Fast Connect API key. Tick the relevant box as shown below, then click Confirm.
**Step-8: **The following messages will be shown, if the Fast Connect API key was created successfully. This window can be safely closed.
Step-9: **The newly connected Fast Connect Trading Accounts can then be viewed from the **Exchange Account API Keys page.
Step-10: If the account's balance is not displayed immediately, refer to the following section: Syncing Balances.
Manual Connection
Step-1: Enter KuCoin URL in your browser and log in to your account.
Step-2: Click on the profile icon from the top-right corner of the navigation bar and select API Management from the dropdown menu.
To generate the API key and Secret key, it is mandatory to enable the two security protection methods in KuCoin -
Step-3: Click Create API.
Step-4:
- Select Link Third-party applications.
- Choose Altrady from the dropdown list.
The alternative, if you prefer, is to use the standard option and to copy the IP whitelist from Altrady to Kucoin. For more info on this, please see the following document How to add an IP whitelist to your API keys
Step-5:
Enter a label for the API key and a Passphrase.
The passphrase will be needed when the API key is added to Altrady.
Enable either Spot or Futures trading permissions.
Step-6: A new modal window will appear displaying your API key and Secret key. Either copy these temporarily or keep this dialog open.
Step-7: Visit Altrady website, login to your account, and click on the Settings icon appearing on the left-hand side of the interface.
Step-8: Select the Exchange account API Keys option from the left sidebar to add the API keys.
A new window will appear, click +Connect Account in the top-right, to connect your KuCoin exchange API keys.
Step-9:
- A new modal window will appear on your screen for creating the API Key.
- Give a label to your API key,
- Select KuCoin or Kucoin Futures from the exchange dropdown list
- Enter your KuCoin API Key and Secret key generated at Step-6.
- Enter the Passphrase you created in Step-5.
In Altrady click Save.
In Kucoin click Confirm.
Step-10: In Altrady, click the Add button.
Step-11: You have successfully connected your KuCoin exchange account with Altrady.
- Details can be edited at anytime by selecting the Edit button.
Step-12: Edit your existing KuCoin API key.
Click button labelled Edit, next to the API key.
Syncing Balances
- If your balances haven't yet updated from the exchange, find out how to quickly update them:
- Still no balance?
Check that your funds are in the correct account/s. Assets in the Funding account are not accessible for trading.
If you have any questions, please feel free to chat with our customer support service.
Updated on: 11/04/2025
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