# 2d - Connect to Kucoin
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Ensure you have **read and understood** the required prerequisites before continuing.\
Please refer to **the "Must-knows" page** in the left menu.
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Follow the steps below to configure a [**Kucoin** ](https://www.kucoin.com/r/af/QBA35AKL)**account** and enable **automated management** of your funds.
### Before proceeding, ensure that your SPOT wallet contains only USDT.
## 1. Main Account Synchronization
1. **Log in to your** [**Kucoin**](https://www.kucoin.com/r/af/QBA35AKL) **account.**
2. In the [**Asset Overview tab**](https://www.kucoin.com/assets), ensure that the funds allocated to our automated strategy are in the **trading account** and not in the **funding account**.
3. [Click here](https://www.kucoin.com/account/api) to access the page for generating **new API keys**.
4. Next, click on the **Create API** button.
5. In the **API-based Trading** section, label your key by naming it **CryptoTrader**, then add **CryptoTrader#100** for the API's Passphrase:
5. Check only the **Spot Trading** box in the API restrictions:
6. Click on **Yes** in the **IP Restriction**, then add the following **two IP addresses**, separating them with a comma. Then click on **Add**:
* `35.195.13.37`
* `89.184.13.176`
7. Click on **Next**.
Your API keys have been successfully generated. Before proceeding to the final step located in the left menu of this documentation under the section '**3 - Link to CryptoTrader', please make sure to keep the window containing the newly created public and private keys open, or copy them into a temporary file.**
## Synchronizing a Sub-Account
It is possible to connect a [Kucoin](https://www.kucoin.com/r/af/QBA35AKL) sub-account **instead of your main account**.
This will allow you to host our automated strategy while the main account is used for your own trading operations.
1. [Click here](https://www.kucoin.com/account/sub) to access the page for generating a **new sub-account.**
2. Then click on the **Create Sub account** button.
3. Complete the following steps:
* Sub-Account Name: **CryptoTrader**
* Permissions: **Spot**
* Add a **login** **password**
* Account type: **General sub-account**
* Click on: **Save**
4. Click on **Transfer**, perform the transfer to your **sub-account** of the funds you wish to allocate to our **automated strategy**, then click on **Confirm**:
5. Click on **Settings**, then on **View API**. On this new page, click on **Create API**.
6. In the **API-based Trading** section, label your key by naming it **CryptoTrader**, then add **CryptoTrader#100** for the API's Passphrase:
7. Check only the **Spot Trading** box in the API restrictions:
8. Click on **Yes** in the **IP Restriction**, then add the following **two IP addresses**, separating them with a comma. Then click on **Add**:
* `35.195.13.37`
* `89.184.13.176`
9. Click on **Next**.
Your API keys have been successfully generated. Before proceeding to the final step located in the left menu of this documentation under the section '**3 - Link to CryptoTrader', please make sure to keep the window containing the newly created public and private keys open, or copy them into a temporary file.**
