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# Connect Bybit

## Create an account with Bybit

If you do not yet have an account with Bybit, first go to [www.bybit.com](http://www.bybit.com) and choose to create a login option.

**What you need:** Working email address, Passport, Mobile phone, Phone number and the Google Authenticator app.

After you have created a login and verified your specified email (by confirming an email from ByBit), choose 'Identity Verification' in the main menu. You will now enter a KYC process (KYC = Know Your Client) in which you will prove to ByBit that you are who you say you are (using a passport or identity card), and you provide your personal bank account and your telephone number.

You will arrive at the following screen:

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**Choose "Verify Now" here**

You will then receive a number of screens, of which the following is the first. Once you have completed the screens, you have completed the verification procedure.

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It may take a few hours before your verification is also approved by ByBit.

## Create API key in Bybit

After you have been verified, you can choose a drop-down menu in the main menu at the top right via the personal icon. Select "API" here. the next screen appears:

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**Choose: "Create New Key"**

If you have not yet set up 2FA authentication, you will see the following screen:

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After you have installed 2FA with Google Athenticator, you can continue with the next screen (divided into 2 images). Make sure you do not activate "withdrawals" in the settings!

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Click on "submit" and the following screen will appear:

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**Copy your API key and your API Secret key to your notepad.** You will need both of these in the BitBrokerTrade application shortly.

Choose **"Understood"**

You are now finished with the API process in Bybit.

## Close Bybit and go to BitBrokerTrade

Go to the **Settings/exchanges** menu and select the **"Add exchange"** button

Select "Bybit"

**Enter the API keys** you copied to your notepad and then choose **"Add"**.

The API connection is immediately tested and the status becomes **"active".**

*The next step is to activate a trader for the Bybit environment.*