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# Kucoin - API Import Guide

Go to the exchange to create the API and set permissions. Connect to the exchange through the API, Your trading capital is held on the exchange.

Please follow the instructions in the pictures below:

**Step 1: Generate Your API key**

**1.1** Sign into your Kucoin account with app and click on **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**User Icon**</mark>**]** in the upper right corner on **\[Kucoin]** page. As follows:

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**1.2** On the **\[User Icon]** page, and then click on the **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**API Management**</mark>**]**. As follows:<br>

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**1.3** On the **\[API Management]** page, and then click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Create API**</mark>**]**. As follow:

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**1.4** Open the page **\[Create API]**, Configure according to the instructions in the figure below. As follow:

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**1.5** Open the page **\[Create API]**, You must check **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Spot Trading**</mark>**]**, and **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Futures Trading**</mark>**]**. As follow:

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**1.6** Open the page **\[Create API]**, Check **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Yes**</mark>**]**, Fill in the IP group of the uTrading server, and click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Add**</mark>**]**, Last click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Next**</mark>**]**. As follow:

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**IP group of the uTrading server (**&#x50;lease copy and paste all the above IPs at once.**)**

<mark style="color:red;">13.213.132.125,13.251.83.60,18.139.102.94,3.1.7.213,46.137.215.117,52.220.111.151,52.220.117.151,52.220.31.227,52.77.45.93,54.169.15.234,13.215.122.202,18.136.175.80,18.141.82.149,18.142.40.60,18.142.65.141,3.0.128.217,3.0.26.171,52.221.111.151,52.221.18.185,54.179.229.52</mark>

**1.7** On the **\[Security Verification]**, click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Confirm**</mark>**]** after filled. As follow:

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**1.8** At this point, the API-Key creation have completed, do not close the current page, and you will need to copy the Access Key and Secret Key later. As follow:

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[**Step 2: Linking Your API Key with uTrading.**](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]

**2.1** Open the uTrading APP, enter the **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Home**</mark>**]** page, and click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**API Binding**</mark>**]**. As follow:

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**2.2** Enter the **\[API Binding]** page, and then click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Kucoin**</mark>**]**. As follow:

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**2.3** Open the API import page, paste the **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**API Key**</mark>**], \[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Secret Key**</mark>**]** and **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Passphrase**</mark>**]** from the Kucoin into uTrading, click **\[**<mark style="color:blue;">**Import**</mark>**]** after filled. As follow:

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Success! If you have successfully completed these steps, the status will show as "API is running normally".

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