KuCoin Unified API Announcement

KuCoin Unified API Announcement

09/29/2025, 11:27:02

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Dear KuCoin Users,
 
We are excited to announce the launch of public interfaces for the Unified Trading Account API on September 29, 2025, at 10:00 UTC. These interfaces provide a streamlined way to access trading and market data under the Unified Trading Account framework. The specific changes are as follows:
  • Domain Unification: All API requests for the Unified Trading Account will use the unified domain: https://api.kucoin.com.

Launching Interfaces

  1. Get Announcements (GET /api/ua/v1/market/announcement)
    1. Description: Obtain the latest news announcements, with default page search for announcements within a month.
    2. Replaces: GET /api/v3/announcements
  2. Get Currency (GET /api/ua/v1/market/currency)
    1. Description: Request the currency details of a specified currency.
    2. Replaces:
      • GET /api/v3/currencies/{currency}
      • GET /api/v3/currencies
  3. Get Symbol (GET /api/ua/v1/market/instrument)
    1. Description: Request a list of available currency pairs for trading.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v2/symbols/{symbol}
      • SPOT: GET /api/v2/symbols
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/contracts/{symbol}
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/contracts/active
  4. Get Ticker (GET /api/ua/v1/market/ticker)
    1. Description: Request market tickers for all the trading pairs in the market (including 24h volume); takes a snapshot every 2 seconds.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/market/orderbook/level1
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/market/allTickers
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/ticker
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/allTickers
  5. Get Recent Trades (GET /api/ua/v1/market/trade)
    1. Description: Get the latest 100 trades of the specified symbol.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/market/histories
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/trade/history
  6. Get OrderBook (GET /api/ua/v1/market/orderbook)
    1. Description: Query order book depth data (aggregated by price). Suitable for professional traders; use WebSocket incremental feed for updates due to strict rate limits.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/market/orderbook/level2_{size}
      • SPOT: GET /api/v3/market/orderbook/level2
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/level2/depth{size}
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/level2/snapshot
  7. Get Klines (GET /api/ua/v1/market/kline)
    1. Description: Get the Kline (candlestick) data of the symbol, returned in grouped buckets based on requested type. Returns up to 1500 pieces of data per query; page by time for more data.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/market/candles
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/kline/query
  8. Get Futures Funding Rate (GET /api/ua/v1/market/funding-rate)
    1. Description: Get the current futures funding fee rate.
    2. Replaces: GET /api/v1/funding-rate/{symbol}/current
  9. Get Funding Rate History (GET /api/ua/v1/market/funding-rate-history)
    1. Description: Query the funding rate at each settlement time point within a certain time range for the corresponding contract.
    2. Replaces: GET /api/v1/contract/funding-rates
  10. Get Cross Margin Config (GET /api/ua/v1/market/cross-config)
    1. Description: Request the configuration info of cross-margin trading.
    2. Replaces: GET /api/v1/margin/config
  11. Get Service Status (GET /api/ua/v1/server/status)
    1. Description: Get the service status.
    2. Replaces:
      • SPOT: GET /api/v1/status
      • FUTURES: GET /api/v1/status
We will continue to roll out additional Unified Trading Account API interfaces in Q4 2025. Please refer to future announcements for updates. For detailed documentation, visit KuCoin API Documentation.
 
For more API communication or feedback, please join our official api telegram group: https://t.me/KuCoin_API or send email to api@kucoin.com
 
Thank you for your continued support!
KuCoin Team

 

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