Add Coinbase Retail API

Step 1: Generate Your Keys
Step 2: Configure the API Keys
Step 3: Link Your Keys to Bitwave
Step 4: Success!

Step 1: Generate Your Keys

Sign into your Coinbase Retail account and click on Profile.
Navigate to your API settings.
Click the Create API key button.
In the popup dialog configure:
• API key nickname
• Portfolio
• Permissions (editing this value prompts 2FA)
• IP allowlist
• ECDSA key type (Ed25519 is not yet supported)
Click Create & Download.
Copy and secure your private/public key pair in a safe location.
Click I've saved my key.

Step 2: Configure the API Keys

Compared to CDP API keys which follow ECDSA format and have the following characteristics:

Key name is 64 characters long
Key secret is 128 characters long

Here is what Coinbase will output on the website:

Example CDP key name:

organizations/8f1ac569-ed29-48ae-b989-6798a975afab/apiKeys/87d98ae9-f31f-42ee-9b69-723d3ff9dd77

Example CDP key secret:

-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----\nMHcCAQEEIJsB+NpntMgnAHSo16vS6ies3V6nu/liXhPMd7s7+lZ6oAoGCCqGSM49\nAwEHoUQDQgAEs0MXQHmufOeRPhjeJOkyNPJjaZv.....................Zb5S\nFBoh2Je3Rkj3do3+CU6OVOI7MzXPCX33NQ==\n-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----\n

Step 3: Link Your Keys to Bitwave

Sign into your Bitwave account and click on the Wallets & Connections Tab
Navigate to Connections within Wallets & Connections
Click the Connect New Account button on top-left
Select Coinbase Retail
Fill in the following to Bitwave:
a. API Key: This will be your CDP key name as explained above.
b. Private Key: This will be your CDP key secret and all the \n should be removed while validating/adding the private key.

Here is how that should be plugged into Bitwave.

Bitwave API key name:

organizations/8f1ac569-ed29-48ae-b989-6798a975afab/apiKeys/87d98ae9-f31f-42ee-9b69-723d3ff9dd77

Bitwave Private key:

-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----MHcCAQEEIJsB+NpntMgnAHSo16vS6ies3V6nu/liXhPMd7s7+lZ6oAoGCCqGSM49AwEHoUQDQgAEs0MXQHmufOeRPhjeJOkyNPJjaZv.....................Zb5SFBoh2Je3Rkj3do3+CU6OVOI7MzXPCX33NQ==-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

c. Exchange Contact
i. This is usually a contact from your ERP software
ii. If you aren't using an ERP integration, you can create one in Company > Contacts > Create Contact
iii. You must use distinct values for Remote ID

Step 4: Success!

Be sure to click on the Sync button and our system will begin to sync over your transaction history. This can take up-to 24 hours.

Bitwave can hide unused Coinbase wallets after they have been loaded in. If this is something you would be interested in then simply inform your Bitwave representative with a list of the wallets to be hidden.