How to add a key to the Passport

How to add a key to the Passport

The process is very simple, takes no more than 10 minutes, and requires nothing more than a Binance account and email.

* Security Reminder: Before creating the API key on Binance, you must enable two-factor verification.
** Service Peculiarity: Your API key will count as invalid as long as it has no historical futures trades. You need to have at least 1 action (deposit, trade, or withdrawal) on the Binance futures account before adding your API key to the TradeLink Passport
*** Before trying to create an API key, you need to have at least $1 deposited to the Binance futures wallet.

How to add Binance API key?

How do I create an API key on Binance?

1. After logging in to your Binance account, go to the “Account” tab in the account drop-down menu. Or simply use this link, and skip the next step

2. Go to the “API management” tab in the left menu of the “Account” page

3. The page you were transferred to should look something like this:

4. Before going further, let’s resolve a very important question that will be crucial for your API key stability

Optional API key security settings by Binance

As you can see, there is a very big orange element located on the page. Let’s investigate a bit further what this little checkbox has to do with all of your API keys.

This checkmark is on by default and allows Binance to restrict your API keys at any time without your notification. We had several cases where Binance removed trading permissions for the API key, only to further understand that the user hadn’t turned off this checkmark, which made it possible for Binance to do actions that were not requested by the user.

We prefer that users turn this checkmark off for easier work with API keys.

1. On the API keys management page, click the “Create API” button

2. The modal window will pop up, where you will be given a choice for the type of generated key. Please, select “System Generated”

3. Select a name for your key. We recommend naming your keys with easy-to-understand logic in mind, to understand the service you provided this key in the future

4. Confirm key creation by entering the 2-factor auth code

5. Congratulations! You’ve created your read-only API key. Now your page should look something similar to the image below

It’s important to note that all keys are created by default as Read-Only without IP restrictions. This is exactly what we need for TradeLink Passport: a Read-Only API key without any other permissions, or any IP restrictions.

After creating the API, do not close the page until you are done adding it to the TradeLink, because it will not be shown again. For security reasons, keep in mind that the key cannot be shared with anyone. If you ever forget the Secret Key, we won’t be able to recover it. The only solution is to delete the API and create a new one, which comes with some complications of changing the key on the TradeLink platform.

6. The rest is easy: go to the Passport Dashboard, click “Add key”, and insert your Read-Only API key in the required field. Keep in mind: your API key consists of 2 separate values: Public Key, and Secret Key. Both of them must be inserted into the required fields.

And congrats! The first part of connecting the Exchange account to the Passport is completed.

How to add ByBit API key?

After logging in to your ByBit account, go to the “API” tab in the account drop-down menu. Or simply use this link, and go to the next step

1. On the API keys management page, click the “Create API” button

2. The modal window will pop up, where you will be given a choice for the type of generated key. Please, select “System Generated”

3. You’ll be redirected to the API key creation page, that can also be accessed using this url. In there, please, select “Connect to Third-Party Applications” option

4. In the application list, please, select “TradeLink”

5. Make sure you are creating “Read-Only” API key, by selecting the option from the screenshot below

6. In order for TradeLink to successfully download all the information from your exchange account, API key has to have no read restrictions. In order to do so, please, select all the permissions checkmarks (as this API key is Read-Only, TradeLink still won’t have any ability to neither trade on your account, nor use your funds in any way. The only thing these permissions allow TradeLink to do, is to get historical data).

7. Make sure your API key is for TradeLink, is Read-only, and has all permissions enabled, then click the “Save” button

8. ByBit might warn you about the risk, in order to finish API key creation you might want to click “Yes” after reading what ByBit has to say

9. Voilà! You’ve successfully created ByBit API key for TradeLink Passport connection, and are now ready to connect it to the platform.

The hard part is over. Now all you need to do, is to simply go to the TradeLink Passport dashboard, and click “Add key” button

In the opened form, select “ByBit” as a stock

Then, simply copy-paste the read and secret part of your API key from the ByBit exchange, create a name of your API key on TradeLink (it doesn’t need to be the same as on ByBit), and click the “Add” button!

That’s it, you can now successfully use your newly added exchange account.

Hopefully, this article answers your question. If not – we will be more than happy to support you by the link in the “Add key” modal window.