Binance Futures is Binance’s derivatives market. DexBots needs an API key with futures trading permissions and withdrawals disabled.
Exchange-side steps
Account registration, Spot wallet funding, API key creation, permissions and IP restriction.
Essential security rule
Use IP 51.77.65.99, enable trading permissions only and always disable withdrawals. ElixoAI never requests withdrawal access.
1. Set up Binance Futures
- Register or sign in to Binance and complete required account verification in your region.
- Use the same Binance account and transfer funds to your Futures wallet.
- Create or edit an API key at Binance API Management.
- Permissions: enable Futures permissions, keep withdrawals disabled.
- Set IP restriction to 51.77.65.99, then save your API Key and API Secret.
2. Add to ElixoAI / DexBots
Complete this step inside ElixoAI / DexBots on DEX Bots → API keys.
- Open the API keys page and click “+ Add API key”.
- Select Binance Futures and enter a descriptive key name.
- Fill in the API Key and API Secret from Binance.
- Click “Add API key” - the credentials are stored encrypted.
- Run “Verify API” to test the connection.
- For futures, use “Switch to Hedge Mode” if required.
After connecting
Start with a small trading limit and confirm that balances and statuses appear correctly in DexBots.
Hedge mode
DCA bots on Binance Futures operate in Hedge mode - Long and Short on the same pair can coexist.