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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:


  1. Fast Connect, for quick and automatic setup.
  2. 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

Manual Connection

Syncing Balances


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.


Fast Connect is only relevant for new Trading Accounts being connected to Altrady. To update the API key for an existing Trading Account, refer to Step 12 in the following section: Manual Connection


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: Select KuCoin from the dropdown list.



Step-4: Ensure Fast Connect is selected then click Connect to be redirected to the KuCoin log in page.


If you're already logged into KuCoin on the same browser, you will not be asked to log in again.



While being redirected to KuCoin, the window below will be shown. If the redirect does not occur automatically, or if it takes a long time, the "KuCoin Fast Connect" button can be clicked to expedite the process.



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: After completing account verification, 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.


  • A Spot Trading Account will be created in Altrady by default, with the correct permissions. Whether a Futures Trading Account is created as well, will depend on whether the exchange account has access to Futures trading.
  • To view permissions for Spot trading and Futures trading, refer to Step 5 here: Manual Connection
  • The Altrady IP whitelist will be automatically linked to the created API key.



Step-7: The following messages will be shown, if the Fast Connect API key was created successfully. This window can be safely closed.


Message on the redirect page, stating that the Fast Connect API key was created successfully


Message in Altrady, stating that the Fast Connect API key was successfully created


Step-8: The newly connected Fast Connect Trading Accounts can then be viewed from the Exchange Account API Keys page.



The default name of the Fast Connect API key can be changed at any time by clicking "Edit" and changing the "Account Label". For Kucoin, the label will be according to the label that Kucoin applies to the API key on the exchange.


Step-9: If the account's balance is not displayed immediately, refer to the following section: Syncing Balances.


Manual Connection


Step-1: Log into Kucoin



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.


How to select "Altrady" as the "Third-Party Application"


Note: by using the Third-Party Application option, Altrady's IP whitelist is automatically applied to your account.


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.


The passphrase can only contain characters (no special characters and no spaces).


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: In Altrady, navigate to Settings> Exchange account API Keys from the left sidebar.


To change (or delete) your existing Kucoin API key, skip to Step 12. To add a new KuCoin API key, continue here.


A new window will appear, click +Connect Account in the top-right, to connect your KuCoin exchange API keys.



Step-8:

  • 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


  1. Enter your KuCoin API Key and Secret key generated at Step-6.
  2. Enter the Passphrase you created in Step-5.


In Altrady click Connect.

In Kucoin click Confirm.



If Futures permissions were not enabled on the API key in Kucoin, adding a Futures account to Altrady will not work.


Step-9: In Altrady, click the Add button.




Step-10: Click Next to complete the process.






Step-11: You have successfully connected your KuCoin exchange account with Altrady.

  • Details can be edited at anytime by selecting the Edit button.


Edit button in the Exchange Account API Keys page

If you need to replace your existing KuCoin API key


To replace your existing API key with a new one, use EDIT rather than Delete and Add. Delete will erase your existing Trade History and Positions permanently.


Click button labelled Edit, next to the API key. And replace the API key, secret and passphrase with the new ones. Then Update.



Syncing Balances


If you cannot see your account balance in Altrady, make sure your funds are in your Kucoin Trading Account. When funds are transferred to Kucoin, they are in the Main account, not Trading Account.


  • 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.


Account summary in Kucoin


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

Updated on: 15/04/2026

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