Automated Crypto Trading 24/7 by Exchange in 2026: Which US Venues a Bot Can Actually Trade Around the Clock, Compared on API Keys, Stop Orders, Maintenance Windows and State Rules

Yes, crypto trades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and that is where most answers to the question stop. The question that matters for anyone thinking about automation is different: can a bot trade your account at 3 a.m. on a Sunday at the venue where your coins actually are? That is decided venue by venue, on five things: whether the venue has an API at all, what an API key is allowed to do, whether the exchange will hold a stop order for you or your software has to, what happens to your orders during a maintenance window, and which states the venue serves. We checked those five for 11 US venues on November 4, 2026. The short version: seven have a working trading API, two have the API but with crypto limits a bot cannot work around, and two have no API at all. The detail is below, and the general 24/7 post covers the market side of the question.

The five things that decide whether a bot can run 24/7

• An API. Without one, nothing on this page applies; a tool that promises to automate a venue with no API is driving the website with a script, against the terms of service.
• The key model. The best venues let you create a key that can read and trade but cannot withdraw, pin it to an IP address and give it an expiry. The worst give one key that does everything.
• Who holds the stop. A stop order that the exchange holds survives your bot going offline. A stop your software holds does not, which is why the connection-drop question matters so much more in crypto than in stocks.
• Maintenance behavior. Every exchange goes down for maintenance. What matters is whether your resting orders are cancelled, frozen or left alone, and whether you can cancel them yourself while it lasts.
• State rules. US crypto is licensed state by state, and New York is the usual exception. A venue you cannot open from your state is not a venue.

The census: 11 US venues on November 4, 2026

Venues with a working trading API

• Kraken. REST and WebSocket APIs, the venue's own words being that clients are welcome to use bots. Keys carry separate permissions for querying funds, creating and cancelling orders, withdrawing and exporting, with an optional expiry and IP restriction. Stop-loss, take-profit, trailing-stop and their limit variants are native order types, triggered on the last or index price, so the exchange holds them. In maintenance mode new orders cannot be placed and existing orders cannot be cancelled; they are not auto-cancelled, and the state is announced on the status page and through the REST SystemStatus call. Not offered in New York or Maine. Entry tier 0.40% maker and 0.80% taker, 0.20% on stablecoin and currency pairs.
• Coinbase Advanced. API through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Keys are created with a View, Trade or Transfer permission level and an IP allowlist, and they do not expire. Stop-limit and bracket order types exist and, per Coinbase's own guide, stops trigger on the last trade price at the exchange. Maintenance on the exchange has used a cancel-only mode, where resting orders can be cancelled but none are accepted. All 50 states since Hawaii was added in 2024. Entry-tier fees are reported at 0.50% maker and 0.90% taker after a September 2026 restructure; the official fee page blocked our read, so treat that as reported.
• Crypto.com Exchange. REST, WebSocket and FIX. The US launch in January 2025 was pitched to institutional and advanced traders, with retail directed to the App; the Exchange's state list is not published, and the App is available in 49 states plus DC with New York excluded. New keys default to read-only; trading and withdrawal are separate toggles and each requires an IP whitelist, with the secret shown once. Stop-loss, stop-limit and take-profit types are documented with a mark-price trigger, but on our own account every stop order returned API_DISABLED during the October build, so plan on software holding the stop. Past maintenance notices said open orders were cancelled for the window, with cancel-on-disconnect recommended. Base tier 0.25% maker and 0.50% taker as read October 18; VIP 1 is 0.065% and 0.10%. Exchange vs App explains why a bot sees a zero balance when the coins are in the App.
• Gemini. API with role-based keys: Trader by default, which can trade but not withdraw, plus Fund Manager, Auditor and Administrator roles. The IP allowlist is chosen at creation and fixed afterward, and unrestricted keys had to add IPs by June 30, 2025. All 50 states including New York under its trust charter. ActiveTrader entry tier 0.60% maker and 1.20% taker on the schedule dated September 1, 2026. Whether Gemini holds stop orders server-side was not something we could verify.
• Alpaca. The same API as its stock side. Crypto order types are market, limit and stop-limit only, no trailing stop, with good-till-cancelled and immediate-or-cancel durations. Crypto is available in some US jurisdictions with New York excluded; the official state page was not reachable. Tier 1 fees 0.15% maker and 0.25% taker. The keys are a standard Alpaca key pair without separate trade and withdrawal scopes.
• Robinhood Crypto. A public API since 2024, open to US customers with an active Robinhood Crypto account. You register an Ed25519 public key in the app with per-key permissions, an optional IP allowlist and an expiry. Order types are limit, market, stop-limit and stop-loss. Every US state plus Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and DC. Fees run from 0.00% to 0.95% by volume tier; the Tier 1 example is 0.50% maker and 0.95% taker.
• Webull. An OpenAPI for crypto with market, limit and stop-loss-limit orders, day, good-till-cancelled and immediate-or-cancel durations, 24/7 hours, a $2 minimum ($1 in New York, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) and $100,000 per trade.
• Binance.US. API with Read enabled by default, Spot Trading and Withdrawals as separate toggles, IP restriction and verification required. Unsupported in Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont and Washington, plus the territories, with Kansas and Wisconsin crypto-only.

Venues with an API but a crypto wall

• tastytrade. The Open API is live for stocks and options, but crypto trading is disabled through the API since the June 29, 2026 release until further notice, and even when it was on the order types were limit, market and notional market with no stop. Crypto trades 24/7 in the app.

Venues with no API

• Fidelity Crypto. No API. Trading runs from 1 a.m. to midnight ET, a 23-hour day, with maintenance that can extend to 4 a.m., and market and limit orders only. Not available in Guam, Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
• Schwab Crypto. Launched April 16, 2026 in a phased rollout from an interest list, Bitcoin and Ethereum only, 75 basis points a trade, no external transfers and no API. The Schwab Trader API that automates a stock account does not reach it.

Count it up: eight venues where a bot can place a crypto order, one where it could but cannot right now, two where it never could. Of the eight, five let you create a key that trades but cannot withdraw (Kraken, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, Binance.US), two tie permissions to a key you register (Robinhood, Webull), and one uses an all-purpose pair (Alpaca). Two publish native trailing stops (Kraken, and Coinbase's bracket), and only Kraken documents that your resting orders survive a maintenance window untouched. The Kraken key-permissions guide shows what the toggles look like in practice.

What a $1,000 round trip costs at the entry tier

Fees are the one input you can compute before you connect anything. A round trip is a buy and a sell; at the entry tier a bot pays the taker rate both ways unless it rests limit orders. On $1,000, that is $5.00 at Alpaca, $10.00 at Crypto.com Exchange, $15.00 at Schwab, $16.00 at Kraken, $18.00 at Coinbase Advanced, $19.00 at Robinhood, $24.00 at Gemini ActiveTrader. The spread between Alpaca and Gemini ActiveTrader is $19.00 per $1,000 traded, which on a strategy that turns the account over twice a week is the difference between a fee bill you notice and one you do not. Volume tiers change the order; the fee-tier post works that out for $5,000, $20,000 and $100,000 a month, and the crypto fee calculator does it for your own numbers. Schwab's 75 basis points is a spread rather than a listed fee, and it is included because people ask.

The four ways a 24/7 bot breaks overnight

• The maintenance window. At Kraken your orders freeze and you cannot cancel until the window ends; at Crypto.com, by the notices we could find, they were cancelled. A bot that assumes its stop is still resting at the venue, or that an order it sent was accepted, is wrong in both cases. The fix is the exchange's status endpoint before every order and a reconcile after every window. The connection-drop post walks through what a stop does under each failure.
• Key expiry and IP changes. Kraken and Robinhood keys can be given an expiry; Coinbase keys never expire; Gemini's allowlist is fixed at creation. A home IP that changes at 2 a.m. silently kills a Crypto.com or Gemini key until someone notices.
• Minimums and dust. Kraken's minimum is 0.0001 BTC, 0.01 ETH or $5 of cash; Crypto.com's is $1 of notional, rounded up to the quantity tick. A sell that comes out below the minimum after fees is rejected, which is how a position ends up stranded at 0.00009 BTC. Round down before the order leaves and treat anything under the minimum as dust.
• The weekend. Nothing is different about the exchange on Saturday; what is different is you. Spreads widen, the news desk is empty, and a bot that was tuned on weekday liquidity is now trading a thinner book. Either widen the entry rule on weekends or let the stop do its job.

What JorgAI does on the two venues it connects

JorgAI connects to Kraken and the Crypto.com Exchange, and to those two only on the crypto side; it does not connect to Coinbase, Gemini, Robinhood, Webull or Binance.US. On both, the key you create has no withdrawal permission, it is stored encrypted, and the scanner runs around the clock because the venue does. Neither exchange offers a bracket that links a stop to a target, so JorgAI's own servers hold every crypto exit, the stop, the trailing stop and the profit target, and send the order when the level is reached; on Crypto.com that is the only option, since the venue rejected every stop we sent. Your daily spend, position size and auto-trades-per-day caps apply at 3 a.m. the same as at 3 p.m. The two set-up guides, Kraken and Crypto.com Exchange, take about ten minutes each, and the head-to-head is the page to read if you have not picked a venue.

Quick answers

Can you trade crypto 24/7 with a bot?

At eight of the eleven US venues above, yes, through a key with trade permission and no withdrawal permission. Fidelity and Schwab have no API; tastytrade's API has crypto disabled until further notice.

Which crypto exchange is best for a trading bot?

It depends on what you want the exchange to hold for you. Kraken holds native trailing stops and leaves resting orders alone during maintenance; Coinbase has brackets; Crypto.com's stops were rejected on our account, so software has to hold them. Grid, DCA and rules-based bots on Kraken compares what the bots themselves do.

Does a stop-loss work overnight in crypto?

At Kraken, Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull, a stop the exchange holds works whether or not your software is awake. At any venue where the software holds the stop, it works as long as the software is up, which is the case for a hosted platform and is not for a laptop that went to sleep.

Can you trade crypto in New York through an API?

Coinbase, Gemini, Robinhood and Webull serve New York. Kraken, Alpaca, Binance.US and the Crypto.com App do not, and the Crypto.com Exchange does not publish a state list.

Why does my bot stop during exchange maintenance?

Because the exchange stops accepting orders. At Kraken you also cannot cancel until the window ends; at Crypto.com past notices said open orders were cancelled. Check the status endpoint before each order and reconcile positions after each window.

Venue facts are from each venue's documentation and fee pages as read on November 4, 2026, except where the text names an earlier date or says reported; fees, state lists and API terms change, so check the venue before you connect. The round-trip figures are arithmetic on entry-tier taker rates. The JorgAI description covers how the connection behaves, not results. Education, not financial advice.

If you want the rules held for you around the clock on Kraken or the Crypto.com Exchange, start a free trial: create a trade-only key, connect it, and set the stop, the trailing stop and the daily cap once.