Bybit Launches Trading API to Connect to ChatGPT, Claude, and Co
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Bybit EU now lets AI assistants place trades through its API. It’s the latest sign that chatbots are moving from talking about money to handling it.
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Bybit EU has rolled out API trading, giving developers a direct line into its trading infrastructure. The Vienna-based arm of the crypto exchange is also pairing that with an open-source “Bybit EU AI Trading Skill” so assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Codex can connect to a Bybit EU account.
The company says the API exposes market data, portfolio data and order execution. Once the AI link is set up, users can ask for prices and holdings, manage spot orders, rebalance portfolios and even use spot margin with leverage of up to 10x through a chat interface. Georg Harer, Bybit EU’s co-CEO, says chat-based AI is already how many people prefer to interact with software, and that finance is likely to follow the same path.
There’s also a 30-day promotion attached to the launch. Bybit EU says eligible users who trade through its API setup can share up to 100,000 USDC, with rewards based on volume and subject to the campaign terms. Registration runs through a dedicated landing page.
The timing is awkwardly familiar. Bitpanda and Scalable Capital, both with Austrian ties, have recently announced similar moves, but they went the Model Context Protocol route. Bybit EU did not. Its skill approach hands the assistant a package of instructions and scripts that run in the assistant’s own environment, while the user’s API keys stay local and the assistant talks straight to the exchange’s REST interface. That means more flexibility, but also more responsibility sitting with the user and the model instead of a provider-run server in the middle.
Bybit EU has been licensed in Austria under MiCAR since last year, after the country’s financial regulator signed off a few months after the global exchange’s billion-dollar hack. Since then, Vienna has become the base for its regulated European business, and the company has also added an e-money licence there.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is exactly where AI finance was heading: less “smart assistant,” more remote control with a friendly voice. The part everyone should keep staring at is the responsibility shift, because when the bot is the front end and the keys live nearby, there’s no one left to blame but the setup itself. Very modern, very efficient, and very capable of making a mess in a hurry.
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