Creating a Kraken API Key

Login to your account on pro.kraken.com, open the profile menu in the top right corner, click settings and select 'Connections & API' column and then click the Create API Key button for Futures trading.

Creating a new Kraken key

Please ensure:

  • Full access under 'General API'

  • No access under 'Withdrawal API'

Additional settings and IP address restrictions

IP Access Restrictions

For better key security, we recommend that you turn on "IP address restriction" and whitelist our server IPs. Hover over the box below and press the 'copy' button on the right to copy the text.

Click Generate key and copy the generated key and secret.

Click the right hand buttons to copy data to the clipboard

You can now proceed to the final step and add your key to the Terminal:

Adding your API Key to the Terminalchevron-right

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