KuCoin Trading Bot. Your Strategy, Executed by API.
Already trade on KuCoin? AstraBit is trading automation software that connects to your existing KuCoin futures account by API and executes the rules and signals you choose. Run marketplace strategies, connect your own signals, or trade manually, all from one dashboard. Your funds stay on KuCoin.
- Free to sign up
- No coding required
- No withdrawal or transfer access
AstraBit is independent software and is not affiliated with KuCoin. KuCoin is not available to U.S. persons, and its futures products are restricted in some other countries. This integration is intended only for traders who are permitted to use KuCoin futures under its terms and the laws where they live. Trading perpetual futures involves significant risk of loss.
KuCoin Trading Bot: Quick Facts
| What AstraBit is | Trading automation software, not an exchange |
| What KuCoin is | Centralized exchange (CEX) |
| Custody | Non-custodial. Your funds stay in your KuCoin account |
| Connection | Futures API key with General and Futures Trading, plus a passphrase. Transfer and Withdrawal stay off |
| Markets | USDT-M futures from your KuCoin Futures account |
| Suggested balance | At least $150 in your Futures wallet. KuCoin rejects the connection if it’s empty |
| Key upkeep | Add AstraBit’s IPs to the whitelist, or KuCoin disables the key after 30 days of inactivity |
| Ways to trade | Marketplace strategies, your own strategy or TradingView alerts, the manual dashboard, or copy trading |
| Bot price | From 0.33 credits ($0.33) a day, billed only after your bot’s first trade |
| Availability | Not available to U.S. persons. Futures are restricted in some other countries |
AstraBit Is the Software, Not the Exchange
This page is for people who already use KuCoin futures and want to automate how they trade there. Here’s who handles what.
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The exchange
KuCoin
Holds your funds, verifies your identity, sets its own fees, and decides who is eligible to use it. Your account is with KuCoin, not AstraBit.
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The decision-maker
You
You decide whether to trade, which strategy or signals to run, and how much risk to take. You’re also responsible for confirming you’re allowed to use KuCoin futures.
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The software
AstraBit
Sends the trade instructions you’ve configured to your account through an API key you create. It can’t withdraw or transfer funds, and it doesn’t recommend that you trade on KuCoin or any other exchange.
What Is a KuCoin Trading Bot?
A KuCoin trading bot is software that places and manages orders on your KuCoin account automatically, following rules you define, so you don’t have to enter every order by hand. AstraBit’s KuCoin integration supports USDT-M futures from your KuCoin Futures account.
Your bot is one of AstraBit’s automated crypto trading bots and runs through an API key you create on KuCoin. Your funds stay in your KuCoin account, transfer and withdrawal permissions stay off on the key, and AstraBit only sends the trade instructions your settings call for. From the AstraBit dashboard, you monitor your positions, orders, and P&L.
What Are the Different Ways to Use AstraBit with KuCoin?
One API connection, three ways to use it: automate a published strategy, bring a strategy you’ve already built, or place orders manually.
Marketplace Strategies
Choose a published Verified Strategy from the AstraBit Strategy Marketplace and link it to your KuCoin bot. Its signals execute on your account automatically, with no coding required. Automation applies rules consistently; it doesn’t reduce the risk of the underlying trades.
Strategies are created by independent third-party Strategists. A listing is not a recommendation or endorsement, and results are not guaranteed.
Bring Your Own Strategy
Already have a system? Connect a custom strategy in any language or send TradingView alerts via webhook. AstraBit handles execution on your KuCoin account.
Manual Trading Dashboard
Prefer to trade yourself? Open and close KuCoin positions from the AstraBit dashboard, alongside your other connected exchange accounts, with charts, orders, and P&L in one place.
Running bots on other exchanges too? With copy trading, one Advanced bot acts as your Master and your other bots follow its trades, even on other exchanges. A Follower can only copy a pair its own exchange offers, and losses copy too.
How Do I Connect My KuCoin Account to AstraBit?
If you already have a KuCoin account with a funded Futures wallet, connecting it takes seven steps, start to finish.
KuCoin is not available to U.S. persons. Check KuCoin’s terms to confirm you’re eligible for futures trading before connecting.
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Open API Management on an eligible KuCoin account
Log in to KuCoin, hover over your profile icon, and select API Management. New to KuCoin? Signing up through our referral link makes you Freemium-eligible.
Referral disclosure: AstraBit earns a commission from KuCoin based on your trading volume when you register through this link, and a portion may be returned to you as credits. This means AstraBit benefits financially from your trading activity. See how credits work.
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Create an API Trading key
Click Create API and choose API Trading (not Link Third-Party Applications). If KuCoin shows separate Spot and Futures sections, create the key under Futures API.
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Name the key and set a passphrase
Name the key (for example, “AstraBit”) and create an API passphrase. AstraBit needs this exact value, and KuCoin can’t recover it later.
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Set the key’s permissions
Enable General and Futures Trading. Leave Spot/Margin Trading and Transfer/Withdrawal off. Adding AstraBit’s IPs to the whitelist is recommended; KuCoin disables trading keys without one after 30 days of inactivity.
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Complete security verification
Enter your trading password, email code, and Google Authenticator code (if enabled), then click Confirm.
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Copy your credentials
Copy your API key and secret key and keep them with your passphrase. KuCoin shows the secret key only once.
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Add the key in AstraBit
In Nexus, go to Exchanges → Connect Exchange → KuCoin, paste your API key, secret key, and passphrase, choose USDT Futures, and leave Position Mode and Margin Type on auto-sync. Then set up your first bot with our step-by-step guide: How to Create a Crypto Trading Bot.
Before You Connect
- An eligible KuCoin account with access to futures
- At least $150 already in your Futures wallet; an empty Futures account makes the API link fail
- API permissions: General + Futures Trading, with Spot/Margin and Transfer/Withdrawal off
- A passphrase you’ve recorded somewhere safe
Full Setup Guide with Screenshots
Our guide walks through every step, from choosing the right API type and passphrase to permissions, IP whitelisting, and connecting in Nexus, with screenshots and a final checklist.
Read the Connection GuideWhat Should You Know Before Using a KuCoin Trading Bot?
A bot makes trading easier, but it doesn’t make it risk-free. Here’s what we’d want to know if we were in your shoes.
Check Your Eligibility First
KuCoin sets its own rules on who can use it. KuCoin isn’t available to U.S. persons, and futures trading is restricted in some other countries. AstraBit doesn’t decide your eligibility; confirm it under KuCoin’s terms and your local laws before you connect.
AstraBit Doesn’t Pick Your Trades
The software executes the strategy, signals, or manual orders you choose. It doesn’t advise you on what to trade, which exchange to use, or how much to risk.
Fund Your Futures Wallet First
KuCoin rejects the API connection if your Futures account is empty, which is the most common reason a KuCoin connection fails. The connection guide recommends at least $150 in the Futures wallet. This is a technical requirement, not a suggested amount to trade.
Leverage Works Both Ways
Perpetual futures use leverage, so gains and losses are magnified, and positions can be liquidated quickly if the market moves against you. Trading them, automated or not, involves a significant risk of loss. A bot follows rules; it does not guarantee outcomes.
Keys Without an IP Whitelist Can Go Dormant
KuCoin disables trading API keys that have no IP whitelist after 30 days of inactivity. Adding AstraBit’s IPs keeps your key active, and you can store your passphrase alongside it, since KuCoin can’t recover it.
KuCoin Is a Centralized Exchange
KuCoin holds the assets in your account and requires identity verification, which works differently from on-chain venues where you hold your own keys. Learn what a centralized exchange is, or read our guide to centralized vs. decentralized exchanges.
How Do AstraBit Credits and Freemium Work?
There are no subscriptions on AstraBit. You pay for bots with AstraBit Credits at a daily rate, billed only after your bot’s first trade. If your KuCoin account was registered through AstraBit’s referral link, a portion of the referral commissions AstraBit receives on your eligible trading volume may be returned to you as credits, which can offset some or all of your AstraBit costs. Credits depend on your actual activity and are not guaranteed.
How AstraBit is paid: AstraBit earns referral commissions from KuCoin based on the trading volume of accounts registered through our link, and returns a portion to eligible users as credits. This means AstraBit benefits financially from referred accounts’ trading activity. AstraBit doesn’t tell you which exchange to use or how much to trade; those decisions are always yours. Credits are not cash, have no cash value, and are not transferable.
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Create your AstraBit account
Registration is free, and completing onboarding tasks can earn credits. Here’s how.
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Connect an eligible KuCoin account
Accounts registered with AstraBit’s referral link qualify for applicable loyalty benefits.
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Credits accrue on eligible activity
A portion of eligible commissions is returned to you as AstraBit Credits.
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Apply credits toward platform costs
Credits apply 1:1 toward eligible bot and strategy fees.
Auto Top-Up (optional): If you turn it on, AstraBit will automatically charge your saved payment method whenever your credit balance falls below a threshold you choose (from $5 to $100). You also choose the top-up amount, with a $25 minimum per top-up. Charges continue each time your balance drops below that threshold until you turn Auto Top-Up off under Billing & Subscriptions. To stop all charges, delete your bots and turn off Auto Top-Up.
Commission rates are set by each exchange under its own affiliate program terms and may change at any time. Credit eligibility, accrual, and redemption are subject to program terms. Credits do not expire but are non-refundable and are forfeited if your account is closed. See the full Freemium + Loyalty Program terms.
What Does AstraBit’s Trading Bot Software Cost?
Each bot has a simple daily rate, paid in Credits. You’re only billed for days after your bot’s first trade. These prices cover AstraBit’s software only; KuCoin’s trading fees are charged separately by KuCoin.
Basic Bot
Entry-level automation
- Connect to any supported exchange
- Copy trading & signals from strategies or your own Master bot
- Fixed or percentage stop loss
- Up to 2 take-profit levels
- Up to 4 DCA steps
Standard Bot
Basic + leverage and more controls
- Everything in Basic
- Leverage settingsLeverage magnifies both gains and losses; positions can be liquidated quickly.
- Fixed and trailing stop losses
- Up to 5 take-profit levels & 8 DCA steps
- One-click manual trading
- Connect your own strategies
Advanced Bot
Standard + advanced risk tools
- Everything in Standard
- Hedging & AstraBit Stop LossThese tools can reduce risk but don’t eliminate it.
- Lead copy trading as your Master bot
- Up to 10 take-profit levels & 15 DCA steps
- Send signals to any bot to copy
- Religious law settings
- Fully interactive chart
Nexus Bot
Not currently available. Features and pricing subject to change.
- Everything in Advanced
- Unlimited trade triggers
- Central command bot for all others
- Master Trader bot
Example: 30 billable days
| Bot tier | Daily rate | 30-day example |
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| Basic | 0.33 credits | 9.90 credits |
| Standard | 0.66 credits | 19.80 credits |
| Advanced | 1.33 credits | 39.90 credits |
Illustrative calculation before eligible credits or discounts. Actual charges depend on billable days and applicable terms. Exchange trading fees are not included. 1 Credit = $1 USD; pay with crypto or fiat. Full comparison on the pricing page.
Already on KuCoin? Automate It with AstraBit.
Here’s what happens after you sign up:
AstraBit provides trading automation software and is not affiliated with KuCoin. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to trade perpetual futures or to use any particular exchange, and AstraBit does not provide investment advice. KuCoin is not available to U.S. persons, and not all exchanges AstraBit supports are available in every jurisdiction. You’re responsible for making sure your use of any connected exchange is permitted where you live. Trading perpetual futures involves a significant risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage magnifies both gains and losses. Automation does not assure profits or protect against losses. Past performance of any strategy is not indicative of future results. AstraBit earns referral commissions from KuCoin and some other connected exchanges; see program terms. Credits are not cash and have no cash value.
KuCoin Trading Bot Questions
What is a KuCoin trading bot?
A KuCoin trading bot is software that places and manages futures orders on your KuCoin account automatically, based on rules you define. On AstraBit, the bot connects to your KuCoin account through an API key you create. It can follow a marketplace strategy or run a strategy you’ve built yourself, and you can also place manual orders from the AstraBit dashboard.
Is AstraBit part of KuCoin?
No. AstraBit is independent trading automation software and is not affiliated with KuCoin. KuCoin is a separate centralized exchange that holds your funds and sets its own eligibility rules and fees. AstraBit connects to your account by API and executes the instructions you configure. It doesn’t recommend that you trade on KuCoin or any other exchange.
Can U.S. residents use AstraBit with KuCoin?
KuCoin is not available to U.S. persons, so U.S. residents can’t use AstraBit’s KuCoin integration. AstraBit’s technology also works on other supported exchanges; check each exchange’s terms for availability where you live.
Does AstraBit hold my KuCoin funds?
No. Your funds stay in your KuCoin account at all times. AstraBit connects through API permissions that allow trade execution only, and transfer and withdrawal permissions stay off on the key.
Why is my KuCoin connection failing?
The most common cause is an empty Futures wallet. Move funds into your KuCoin Futures account before you connect, then try again. Also check that the key was created as an API Trading key under Futures, with General and Futures Trading enabled, and that you entered the exact passphrase you set.
How does AstraBit connect to KuCoin?
Through an API key. In KuCoin, open API Management, create an API Trading key under Futures, set a passphrase, enable General and Futures Trading, and leave Spot/Margin and Transfer/Withdrawal off. Then enter the API key, secret key, and passphrase in AstraBit’s Nexus dashboard under Exchanges → Connect Exchange → KuCoin. The step-by-step guide covers the full setup with screenshots.
What do I need before connecting KuCoin to AstraBit?
An eligible KuCoin account with futures access, at least $150 already in your Futures wallet, an API Trading key with General and Futures Trading enabled, and your passphrase.
How much does a KuCoin trading bot cost on AstraBit?
Opening an account is free. Bots are paid for with AstraBit Credits (1 credit = $1 USD) at a daily rate, and billing only begins after your bot executes its first trade. Daily rates are 0.33 credits for Basic, 0.66 for Standard, and 1.33 for Advanced, or about 9.90 to 39.90 credits over 30 billable days. A Nexus tier is in development; its planned rate (1.99) and features may change. These prices cover AstraBit’s software only; KuCoin charges its own trading fees. If your KuCoin account is registered through AstraBit’s referral link, eligible activity may earn credits that offset some or all of your AstraBit costs. AstraBit earns referral commissions on that activity. See the Freemium + Loyalty Program for details.
Can I use my own strategy or TradingView alerts?
Yes. You can connect a custom strategy coded in any language, or send signals from TradingView to AstraBit via webhook. AstraBit receives the signal and executes on your connected KuCoin account. See how to connect a custom strategy.
Is AstraBit a regulated company?
AstraBit operates as CPT Capital, LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA (CRD# 331540). You can verify our registration at FINRA BrokerCheck. Note: not all AstraBit services are broker-dealer services regulated by the SEC or FINRA.
Other Exchange Integrations
AstraBit’s software connects to these exchanges the same way.
Not every exchange is available in every jurisdiction, including the U.S. Check each exchange’s terms before connecting.
