Trade crypto with a key instead of a click
Buy, sell, and swap 3,000+ cryptocurrencies from your own code, at the live market rate, delivered to a wallet you control. Generate a key from your dashboard in a couple of clicks, scope it to exactly what that script should be allowed to do, and let it run. Nothing to apply for, no one to wait on.
One key per job
Dashboard, SecurityPayday DCAreadtrade
203.0.113.24
Buys BTC every other Friday, delivered to a hardware wallet
Bookkeepingread
198.51.100.7
Pulls balances, orders, and history for month-end
Treasury sweepreadtradewithdraw
192.0.2.40
Converts revenue to fiat and moves it to the bank
Illustrative. Each key is locked to one IPv4 address and holds only the permissions you tick.
What people automate
If you can write a script, you can automate your trading
Most exchange APIs assume you have an engineering team. Ours is built for the person with one script and one job for it, and it scales up to a treasury system that never sleeps.
- Recurring buys
- Dollar-cost average into Bitcoin or any other coin every payday, delivered to your own wallet each time.
- Selling payouts as they land
- Miners sell payouts the hour they arrive, at the live rate, with fiat settling to the bank.
- Treasury conversions
- Convert crypto revenue to fiat before month end, or top up stablecoin balances, from the systems your finance team already runs.
- Rebalancing and swaps
- Rotate between any of 3,000+ assets on the first of the month, or whenever your rules say so.
- Reporting
- Read balances, orders, and history into your own dashboards and books, on a read-only key.
- Large blocks
- Orders of $50,000 or more can route to the OTC desk for one locked price for the whole block.
Why non-custodial matters twice for automation
A leaked key here can only do what you let it
Automation usually means trusting an exchange to hold your coins so a bot can move them. We do not work that way. Coins your code buys go straight to the wallet you name, and each key is locked to one IP with only the permissions you tick.
A typical custodial exchange API
- Where bought coins sit
- In an exchange balance
- What a key can do
- Whatever the account can
- The rate your code sees
- A display price
- Getting a key
- An application and a queue
- When something breaks
- A ticket
Coin Nerds API
- Where bought coins sit
- In the wallet your code names
- What a key can do
- Only its permissions, from one IP
- The rate your code sees
- The live market rate that settles
- Getting a key
- Your dashboard, in a couple of clicks
- When something breaks
- A human on chat, 24/7
How keys work
Scoped, locked, and yours to revoke
Every key is created and managed by you, in your dashboard, the moment you need it. No approval queue, no staff involved.
Generate your API key- A label
- Name each key for its job, so the payday script and the treasury sweep never share one.
- One allowed IP
- Each key is locked to a single IPv4 address, the one your script runs from.
- Read
- Balances, orders, and history. Enough for reporting and monitoring, and nothing more.
- Trade
- Place buys, sells, and swaps. Purchases still deliver to the wallet you name, not to a balance the key can drain.
- Withdraw
- Move funds out. Grant it only to the key that genuinely needs it.
- Revoke any time
- One click in the dashboard and the key is dead. Rotate keys as often as your security policy wants.
How it works
Three steps to your first automated trade
- 1
Open your account
Sign up and verify like any other customer. Same-day signup to first trade applies to your code as much as to you.
- 2
Generate a key
In your dashboard: give it a label, lock it to one IPv4 address, and tick read, trade, or withdraw. Nothing to apply for.
- 3
Trade from your code
Place buys, sells, and swaps at the live rate. Coins deliver to your wallet, fiat settles to your bank.
No code at all
Let your AI agent do the trading
Prefer to ask instead of script? Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to your Coin Nerds account and tell it what to buy, sell, swap, or schedule. It acts within the permissions you grant and reports back in plain language.
See Coin Nerds CLI for AI agentsFor companies
The same API, on a business account
Corporate treasuries, payment processors, mining operations, and fintech products convert crypto to fiat, hold stablecoins, and route settlement to the bank without anyone touching a trading screen. Larger and recurring flows get volume pricing.
Your strategy runs on your schedule. The market rate is real. The phone still gets answered.
A crypto trading API for people, not just platforms
Most exchange APIs are built for market makers and assume you have an engineering team. The Coin Nerds crypto trading API is built for the person who wants to buy $200 of Bitcoin every Friday without remembering to log in, the miner who wants payouts sold the hour they land, and the small business that wants crypto revenue converted to fiat before the accountant asks. If you can write a script, you can automate your crypto trading with us. You get the full catalog of 3,000+ cryptocurrencies, the same payment and settlement rails available on the website, and the same live market rates. The only thing that changes is that your code places the order instead of your finger.
Automated crypto trading that stays non-custodial
Automation usually means trusting an exchange to hold your coins so a bot can move them. We do not work that way. Every purchase your code makes is delivered on-chain to the wallet you name, so your holdings never sit in an exchange balance waiting to be frozen, hacked, or lent out. That matters twice as much for automated trading: a leaked API key on a custodial exchange can empty an account, while a key here is locked to one IP address and holds only the permissions you granted, and its purchases pay out to your own wallet. Verification, limits, and settlement work the same as they do for every customer, and every trade produces the confirmations your bookkeeper or auditor will accept.
Self-serve API keys from your dashboard
Getting started is self-serve. Sign in, open the Security page of your dashboard, and generate an API key: give it a label, lock it to one IPv4 address, and choose whether it can read, trade, or withdraw. Create one key per job, so a reporting script never holds trading rights and a payday buy never holds withdrawal rights, and revoke any key with one click. Your first automated trade can run the same day. Nothing to apply for and no approval queue.
Built for businesses and AI agents too
Corporate treasuries, payment processors, mining operations, and fintech products use the same API to convert crypto to fiat, hold stablecoins, or move settlement to a bank account without anyone touching a trading screen. Larger and recurring flows get volume pricing, and trades of $50,000 or more can route to the OTC desk for a locked quote. If you would rather ask than script, Coin Nerds CLI lets AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor trade and transact on your account within the permissions you grant. Either way, real human support, 24/7, 365 days a year, applies to your code as much as it does to you.
Put your trading on autopilot
Generate a key from your dashboard and your first automated trade can run today.