Coinbase Setup

Setup using Coinbase

Basic Requirements

• You will need a Coinbase Account

Setup Coinbase API

• Head over to this link to create you 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

• Login to the Shadow website

• In the Account Management -> Exchange Connections tab, add your API key to 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 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-----

  • 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

• Take a live trade on the Coinbase website, then go to your profile on the Shadow website, and check that your trade showed up!