Setup - Coinbase

Setup using Coinbase

Basic Requirements

• You will need to have a Coinbase Account.

Setup Coinbase API

• Head over to this link to create your Coinbase API.

  • Make sure that the Transfer permissions are disabled.

  • Your API key permissions should look like this:

  
• Save the API key download file in a secure place, so that you can find it easily later.

Connect API Key to Shadow

• In the Account Management -> Exchange Connections tab, add your API key details for Coinbase

  • In the API Key field, copy in the name value in the downloaded JSON file

  • In the Secret field, copy in the privateKey value in the downloaded JSON file

  • Copy everything in between the quotation marks for the two values. An example is below

Example

{
   "name": "YOUR_API_KEY_NAME",
   "privateKey": "-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----\nYOUR_PRIVATE_KEY\n-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
}

• For the API Key field, copy everything in between the quotation marks for the name field

  • i.e the copied result here would be YOUR_API_KEY_NAME

• For the Secret field, copy everything in between the quotation marks for the privateKey field

  • i.e the copied result here would be -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----\nYOUR_PRIVATE_KEY\n-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----\n

  • NOTE - be sure to include the entire sequence of characters here, including the leading "-" characters and the ending "-" characters and the "\n"

    • Remember to not include the very first and last quotation marks for each value

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Discord Bot Setup

• Direct message the Shadow Bot then run /menu

• Click Setup

• Click on I Agree.

• Select Coinbase.

• Enter your API credentials and click on submit.

• You're good to go! Try running /account-info to check whether your account has been activated or not.

• After this, directly head over to How to make trades using the bot on Discord.