Kraken

🛠 Connector Info¶

Exchange Type: Centralized Exchange (CEX)
Market Type: Central Limit Order Book (CLOB)
Maintenance Tier:
Maintainer: None

Currently, Kraken is a Bronze exchange, as voted by HBOT holders in each quarterly Epoch. This means Hummingbot Foundation does not maintain the components below, but community members may submit Proposals to fund development bounties and approve pull requests to fix bugs and add enhancements to them.

Component	Status	Notes
🔀 Spot Connector	✅
🔀 Perp Connector	Not available
🕯 Spot Candles Feed	Not built
🕯 Perp Candles Feed	Not built

ℹ️ Exchange Info¶

Website: https://www.kraken.com/
CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kraken/
CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges/kraken
API Docs: https://docs.kraken.com/rest/
Fees: https://www.kraken.com/en-us/features/fee-schedule
Supported Countries: Not available

🔑 How to Connect¶

Generate API Keys¶

Sign in to your Kraken account
Open the account menu (click on your name in the upper-right corner of the page)
Select the Security option

Select the API option

[![Create API](kraken-api1.png)](kraken-api1.png)

Click the "Add Key" link (you will be able to configure the API in the next steps)
```
[![Create API](kraken-api2.png)](kraken-api2.png)
```
Configure the API key by adding the name / description and selecting the necessary access permissions
```
[![Create API](kraken-api3.png)](kraken-api3.png)
```
Once the API key settings have been configured appropriately, the new API key can be created by clicking on the Generate key button. Make sure to store the API keys in a safe place.

Add Keys to Hummingbot¶

From inside the Hummingbot client, run connect kraken:

Enter your kraken API key >>>
Enter your kraken secret key >>>

If connection is successful:

You are now connected to kraken

🔀 Spot Connector¶

Integration to spot markets API endpoints

ID: kraken
Connection Type: WebSocket
Folder: https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot/tree/master/hummingbot/connector/exchange/kraken

Order Types¶

This connector supports the following OrderType constants:

LIMIT
LIMIT_MAKER

Paper Trading¶

Access the Paper Trade version of this connector by running connect kraken_paper_trade instead of connect kraken.

If this is not available by default, you can configure Hummingbot to add this paper trade exchange. See Adding Exchanges for more information.