# Kucoin API

### API Exchange Setup

1. **Login / Signup** to KuCoin via browser
2. Make sure your account is **verified / KYC**
3. Hover your mouse **to your initials**

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4. Select **“API Management”**\
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5. Click **“Create API”**<br>

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6. **Create API** \
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   6.1. **API Name:** enter format (Your username)ODS\
   6.2. **API PassPhrase:** (Create an easy password which is different from all your passwords)\
   6.3. Copy your entered **“API Name”** and **“API Passphrase”** to the form<br>

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7. **API Restrictions**\
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   Select: **“Spot Trading”**, **“Margin Trading”**, and **“Futures Trading”**<br>

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8. **IP Restrictions** \
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   Click **“No”** then **“Next”**<br>

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9. Verify **“I’m a human”**
10. Enter your **Security Verification details** for KuCoin then click **“Confirm”**<br>

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11. You now have your API Created. \
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    Copy the **“ Key”** and **“Secret Key”** to the form\ <br>

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12. Click **“Confirm”** and now you have **successfully created your ODS API.**


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