How to track your Binance portfolio without giving up control
A read-only API key puts your Binance balances into a tracker in ten minutes with zero power over funds. What it shows and how to set it up.
The clean way to track a Binance account is a read-only API key: ten minutes of setup, full visibility into balances and history, and zero ability for anyone to touch your funds. The exchange app already shows you Binance, of course. The point of a tracker is that Binance is rarely the whole story.
Why not just use the Binance app?
Because portfolios leak out of any single venue: a hardware wallet here, an L2 airdrop there, a DeFi position, a perp account. The exchange app shows its slice perfectly and the rest not at all. A tracker exists to put the slices back together, with Binance as one column among several.
What a read-only connection shows
- Balances across your Binance account, including major products, depending on the scopes the key covers.
- Trade history with timestamps, the raw material for real PnL and tax exports.
- Deposits and withdrawals, which link Binance activity to your on-chain wallets.
The setup, short version
Create an API key in Binance account settings, enable nothing except reading, and paste the pair into your tracker. The careful walkthrough with every screen decoded is here: how to create a read-only Binance API key. If a tool asks for more than read access, that is your cue to leave; the threat model explains what each scope risks.
Binance next to everything else
In TrueHold, the Binance connection lands beside wallets watched by address, DeFi positions and perp accounts: one total, one history, one place to ask what changed. Revoking takes one click in the product or one delete in Binance API Management, and the view goes dark immediately.
Frequently asked questions
Is connecting Binance to a tracker safe?
With a read-only key, yes: permissions are enforced by Binance server-side, and a reading-only key cannot trade or withdraw regardless of what happens to the tracker.
Does Binance allow third-party tracking apps?
Yes. The API and its permission scopes exist exactly so external software can read account data with your consent, under limits you control.
Will the tracker see my whole Binance account?
It sees what the read scope of your key exposes, which covers balances and history for most products. Coverage of niche products varies by tracker; check before relying on it.
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