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Crypto exchange API rate limits updated

Weight limits for order endpoints changed on several major exchanges. Our crypto bots now use adaptive throttling to avoid bans during volatility spikes.

Several major exchanges lowered the request weight available to order and account endpoints, which mostly hurts bots that poll aggressively during fast markets. In practice the first symptom is a burst of 429 responses followed by a temporary IP ban.

Our crypto bots now use adaptive throttling: the client tracks the weight headers returned by the exchange and slows down polling before the limit is reached, prioritising order management calls over market-data refreshes.

Where the exchange supports it, market data is taken from websocket streams instead of REST polling, which removes most of the load. Order placement keeps a small reserved budget so risk management can always close a position.

If you run one of our bots, update to the latest build and keep the default throttling settings unless you have a dedicated API key with raised limits.

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