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How to delete API keys from an exchange and how to delete an exchange from 3Commas
How to delete API keys from an exchange and how to delete an exchange from 3Commas

Learn how to make sure the old API keys are deleted and your trading is protect and safe.

Updated over a week ago

⚠️⚠️⚠️Very, very important note!⚠️⚠️⚠️

After you delete the API keys on an exchange, most likely, the SmartTrades and DCA bots' trades will be failed, and you will have to pick them up and recreate them manually.
Here are the articles that will help you with that:

If you are OK with that, here is the instruction on how to delete API keys on an exchange!

  1. First of all, you need to log in to your exchange account.

    It can be Binance, Kucoin, OKX, or any other.

  2. Go to the API management page of this exchange.

    The complete list of exchanges and their API management pages can be found in the articles of this collection:

  3. Find the API keys that you want to delete and click on the Delete button, which may look like the following:


That's it! You have deleted API keys on your exchange!


How to delete API connection from 3Commas?

⚠️⚠️⚠️Very, very important note!⚠️⚠️⚠️

If you delete the exchange from 3Commas, you will lose ALL your DCA bots, SmartTrades, trading history, and statistics! Please think thoroughly before you delete the exchange!

  1. First of all, you must cancel or close all the trades and bots - SmartTrades, DCA bot's trades, GRID bots, Smart Bots, etc.

  2. Then go to the My Portfolio page and find the exchange you want to delete


  3. Click on the three dots menu and choose Delete


  4. Confirm the deletion


  5. If you have not deleted all active trades or bots, you will see this error

    Go back to step 1. and make sure to delete all active trades and bots.

  6. And you are done! Congratulations!

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