Connect your Bot to Poloniex

Creating your API key

Creating an API key is important, see it as a bridge between you and the exchange. Cryptohopper needs this bridge in order to do all the automated things you love such as, placing automated orders and reading your balance to do all sorts of calculations with.

Step one. Go to the exchange website, and create an account if you haven't already.

Step two. Create your API.

Click on the little wrench icon and then on API keys.

Make sure that your API access is enabled, and click on "Create New Key".

Step three. Configuring the API key.

Cryptohopper will need trading access in order to successfully trade automatically! IP whitelisting should also be kept set to allow all.

Step four. Adding the API to Cryptohopper.

Navigate to your cryptohopper account and find the baseconfig. From there on out, you can click on the tab labeled "exchange".

Select your exchange, fill in your API key and you are done! Don't forget to fill in your Passphrase! otherwise the API key will not work.

Give the Hopper a moment to link everything and your balance should be loaded.

Unable to see your exchange balance?

There are several things that prevents your hopper from synchronizing the funds of your exchange. In most cases, the browser that you use has "auto-fill" enabled. This means that the browser fills in certain text fields themselves. There are three things you can do:

• Disable autofill,
• Use incognito mode of your browser
• Use a browser that you don't use often.
• Another thing that could prevent your hopper from synchronizing are password managers, disable this for Cryptohopper.

And you're done! Check our community forum where users share their Hopper settings.

If you want more information about this subject, watch our Cryptohopper Academy video about this subject.