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Hummingbot

Introduction​

Hummingbot is an open source platform that helps you design, backtest, and deploy fleets of automated crypto trading bots.

In this guide, we go through the basic steps to deploy a Hummingbot instance on a full VM running on the TFGrid.

Prerequisites​

Deploy a Full VM​

We start by deploying a full VM on the ThreeFold Dashboard.

  • On the Threefold Dashboard, go to the full virtual machine deployment page
  • Deploy a full VM (Ubuntu 22.04) with an IPv4 address and at least the minimum specs for Hummingbot
    • IPv4 Address
    • Minimum vcores: 1vcore
    • Minimum MB of RAM: 4096GB
    • Minimum storage: 15GB
  • After deployment, note the VM IPv4 address
  • Connect to the VM via SSH 
    • ssh root@VM_IPv4_address

Preparing the VM​

We prepare the full VM to run Hummingbot.

Setting Hummingbot​

We clone the Hummingbot repo and start it via Docker.

  • Clone the Hummingbot repository 
    git clone https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot.git
    cd hummingbot
  • Start Hummingbot 
    docker compose up -d
  • Attach to instance 
    docker attach hummingbot

You should now see the Hummingbot page.

References​

The information to install Hummingbot have been taken directly from their documentation.

For any advanced configurations, you may refer to the Hummingbot documentation.