Best for
Crypto market-making and automation users who want an official paper path before connecting exchanges.
Hummingbot
Hummingbot is built around automated crypto strategies, especially market making across centralized and decentralized venues. Scripts and controllers can be developed with paper trading and backtesting before exchange keys are connected for live use.
★GitHub Stars19,281
</>Primary languagePython
§LicenseApache-2.0
GHOfficial repositoryOpen GitHub ↗Is it a fit?
The quick decision view, grounded in the ranking data and verification record.
Not ideal for
Researchers focused on equities, cross-sectional factors, or a small backtest-only library.
Tested status
Locally attempted; the tested task remains partial
Setup difficulty
Medium
Last verified
2026-07-31
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What it can do
Research and testing
- Strategy backtesting
- Yes
- LLM or agent based
- No
Trading
- Paper trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes
Getting started
- API key required to start
- No
- Registration required to start
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
Capabilities shown as Yes or No come from the official project source. Unconfirmed fields remain “Not confirmed”.
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