
How to Verify Your Crypto Trading Bot's Real Performance
One green number doesn't tell you if a bot is actually working. Here's the full checklist, two worked examples, and where to find each piece.

One green number doesn't tell you if a bot is actually working. Here's the full checklist, two worked examples, and where to find each piece.

Who actually holds your crypto while a bot trades it? The custodial/non-custodial line decides the answer — and FTX is the reason it matters.

Read, trade, withdraw — three tiers, one that matters for a bot. See exactly what an API key can and can't touch.

Your bot isn't broken. It's one of five specific, checkable things. Here's how to find which one.

A platform outage stops your bot from trading. It doesn't touch your money. Here's the mechanism that keeps those two things separate.

Step = Range ÷ Grids. That one formula decides whether a grid bot trades in large, infrequent swings or small, frequent ones — and getting it wrong in either direction has a real cost. Here's how to choose.

A liquidation heatmap looks like a prediction. It isn't one. How tools like this estimate liquidation density, why the colors shift constantly, and what to do with the information once you can read it.

A depeg isn't the same as supply falling — it's the price itself breaking from $1. Real examples from Terra to 2026 show why that difference matters.
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