Margin

Fund Collateral Account

Overview

Before you can being trading on margin, you must transfer assets from your Go Account to your Collateral Account.

BitGo accepts the following assets as collateral:

USD
USDT
USDC
BTC

After transferring assets into your Collateral Account, the assets lock and you can only withdraw them by contacting support@bitgo.com.

Prerequisites

Cookbook

Need just the steps? Expand the cookbook below to get started:

Fund Collateral AccountOpen Cookbook

Deposit Assets

Endpoint: Transfer Collateral for Margin

export BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST="<YOUR_LOCALHOST>"
export ACCOUNT_ID="<YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID>"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
export CURRENCY="<ASSET_ID>"
export QUANTITY="<AMOUNT_IN_BASE_UNITS>"
curl -X POST \
  http://$BITGO_EXPRESS_HOST/api/prime/trading/v1/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/margin/collateral/transfer \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
        "currency": "'"$CURRENCY"'",
        "quantity": "'"$QUANTITY"'",
      }'

Step Result

{
  "currency": "BTC",
  "quantity": "2",
  "balanceValue": {
    "quantity": "1000000",
    "currency": "USD"
  }
}

Place Margin Order