OKX Environments And Common Errors

Use this article when connecting OKX spot or USDT perpetual trading.

If you still need an OKX account, use the SteadyEdge OKX partner link .

Required choices

- Choose main for a production OKX key or demo for demo trading.

- Choose the API region used to create the key: global or eea .

- Enter the API key, secret, and API passphrase. The passphrase is a separate

credential and cannot be recovered from the key or secret.

- Choose Spot or Futures. Stored charts and backtests always use shared mainnet

history even when the account is demo.

Permissions

Use a trading key with read access and order permission. Do not grant withdrawal permission. SteadyEdge never returns or logs the secret, passphrase, or complete API key.

Common errors

- A missing or mistyped passphrase usually causes signature/authentication

failure.

- A Global key used against EEA, or the reverse, uses the wrong API host.

- Demo credentials fail when Main is selected.

- A Spot/Futures mismatch can validate one account area but fail order or

balance requests.

- If a mainnet opening order fails, revalidate the account and verify its

trading permission, product, region, and IP allowlist.

See the official OKX API documentation for current key and demo-trading requirements.

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