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News, release deep-dives, and multi-language guides from the CCXT team — the open-source library connecting 100+ cryptocurrency exchanges.
Build your first crypto trading bot in 15 minutes — in whichever language you already know
Connect to an exchange, read balances and prices, and place your first order — in JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go, and Java, with safety rails on from the start.
Stop polling: your trading bot is acting on stale prices
Stop polling. How to stream tickers, order books, trades, and your own orders over WebSockets with CCXT — and what the library does for you under the hood.
Seven mistakes that blow up crypto trading bots (you're probably making #1 right now)
Floating-point money, rate-limit bans, symbol mixups, blind retries — the classic failure modes of trading code, and the library machinery that exists because of them.
We scanned 100 exchanges for arbitrage in 50 lines of code — here's the catch
A working cross-exchange spread scanner with CCXT — and the honest list of reasons most of the spreads it finds aren't free money.
The crypto arbitrage playbook: what still pays in 2026 (and what's a trap)
Cross-exchange, triangular, funding-rate, basis, and statistical arbitrage — how each one actually works, what the real risks are, and which CCXT methods power them.
Market making: the strategy exchanges literally pay you to run
How market makers earn the spread, why inventory is the real enemy, and a minimal quoting loop built on watchOrderBook, postOnly orders, and hard risk limits.