Bybit unveils AI Trading Skill for automated crypto trades

Bybit has launched AI Trading Skill, a tool that connects popular AI assistants to the exchange's trading and account functions through a natural-language interface.

The feature links to Bybit via 253 API endpoints and supports AI products including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf and OpenClaw. Bybit frames the release as a step towards more automated, agent-style trading workflows, where software interprets a user's instructions and executes a sequence of actions.

Built on Bybit's existing trading services, AI Trading Skill lets users ask an AI assistant to pull market data, place orders, and manage balances using conversational prompts rather than a conventional exchange interface. The company says it requires no installation or local configuration, and that the integration updates automatically as the platform changes.

Six modules

The product is organised into six functional areas that mirror common exchange tasks. The first covers market intelligence, including real-time prices, candlestick data, order book depth and funding rates-typical inputs for traders monitoring spot and derivatives markets.

Spot trading tools include market orders, limit orders and batch operations. The derivatives module covers leveraged trading and risk management features such as take-profit and stop-loss, as well as conditional orders. Bybit also lists account and asset functions such as access to account information, deposits, withdrawals and currency conversion.

An earn module includes Flexible Savings and an On-Chain Earn product. Bybit positions these as part of a broader digital-asset wealth management journey alongside trading.

The sixth module focuses on advanced features, including the ability to pull real-time data and place certain orders via WebSocket streams. Bybit lists margin lending, price differential trading and request-for-quote pricing as examples of workflows available through this part of the system.

How it works

AI Trading Skill acts as an intermediary between an AI assistant and Bybit's infrastructure. Natural-language instructions are translated into API calls, which the exchange executes through its existing systems after applying the checks it says it uses on its platform.

The emphasis on API endpoints points to a design built for chaining actions, where one instruction triggers a sequence of requests. In practice, that could mean asking for the latest price and then placing an order, or querying balances and then converting assets. Conversational prompts can also reduce the need to switch between dashboards, charts and order-entry screens.

Bybit says the feature works across major AI assistants, reflecting growing interest in standardised ways for AI tools to take actions inside third-party services. It also raises questions about control models for trades executed through AI, particularly in volatile markets where speed and accuracy matter.

Security controls

Bybit says the feature includes safeguards designed to limit unintended trading activity. New users are guided through testnet trading first, allowing them to try AI-driven commands in a simulated environment before using real funds.

For live trading, Bybit says every transaction requires explicit confirmation. The exchange presents this as a way to keep users in control of each order even when the instruction comes from an AI assistant.

It also says the feature uses secure API authentication and removes the need for manual credential configuration, which it positions as reducing the risk of exposing sensitive information during setup.

Wider AI push

The launch follows earlier Bybit efforts to use AI for market information and decision support, including TradeGPT and other features that provide analysis and trading-related information within the platform.

The latest release shifts the focus from analysis to execution, including order placement and account management functions typically handled directly by the user. The move comes as crypto exchanges compete on trading tools and user experience, as retail activity fluctuates and professional traders continue to demand fast access to liquidity across venues.

Bybit says the new feature broadens its AI integration across trading and wealth management functions. It said that with AI Trading Skill, Bybit delivers its most comprehensive AI integration to date, end-to-end coverage across the entire trading and digital asset wealth management journey.

The exchange says it will continue to expand the number of supported endpoints and functions as it develops the AI Skills framework.