When Will MEXC Reopen Futures API: MEXC Community Slam ‘Temporary’ 3 Year Pause

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When will MEXC reopen the crypto futures API? Three years ago, the exchange turned off this functionality, inconveniencing developers

(Source: Coingecko)

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When Will MEXC Enable Crypto Futures APIs?

This is super, right? Well, it sounds so until it doesn’t.

If you don’t care about bots, or precisely, auto trading, trading on MEXC is ideal.

However, for developers who wish to automate their trading activity, MEXC is turning out to be the worst place to trade from.

More than three years ago, on July 25, 2022, MEXC disabled its crypto futures APIs.

On their update logs, MEXC said it was temporary and developers have to, instead, use “query endpoints” without trading functions until the futures API comes back online.

The problem is that hours turned into days, weeks, months, and now, three years later, Redditors want MEXC to clarify whether they will activate crypto futures APIs or if the feature is no longer available.

Without a functional API from a mega exchange, developers can’t feed their bots with real-time data access needed for algos to analyze trends or execute trades instantly. What’s more? Without APIs, it is impossible to automatically track balances, margins, and positions.

Venting on Reddit seemed to be the last resort because it appears that MEXC has been ignoring this complaint for years.

Some claim that MEXC’s disabling of crypto futures APIs is deliberate and a control tactic, as they don’t want external market makers to compete with their own. If there is competition, critics allege it would be impossible for the exchange to trade against its clients.

Without any roadmap for restoration or response from support, traders and developers have nothing more than speculation about where the problem could be.

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The White Whale Controversy

The demand from traders for the immediate restoration of API trading functions is when MEXC recently closed a protracted back-and-forth with yet another popular trader.

The crypto futures trader, White Whale, went public in August after MEXC froze his $3.1M account.

MEXC claimed that White Whale violated their terms of service (TOS) after using bots to trade.

When they first froze his account in July 2025, MEXC noted two orders placed in the same second and immediately flagged them as “auto trading” via API. This trading pattern, the exchange emphasized, was in breach of their TOS.

However, the trader fought back, saying he didn’t use any bot and he was willing to prove his claim.

After weeks of mixed responses from MEXC, including demand for an in-person meeting, ZachXBT, the onchain sleuth, investigated White Whale’s claims.

That was in late October.

By the end of last month, MEXC was forced to release White Whale’s funds. This, however, didn’t prevent users from withdrawing their funds from the exchange, fearing they could be next should they be profitable.

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