3Commas Is Shutting Down: Where Should Traders Move Their Bots? (2026 Migration Guide)

3Commas, one of the oldest crypto bot platforms, is closing its v1 platform. The official Help Center states that all API connections to 3Commas v1 will be deactivated when the platform closes on September 11, 2026, and that API keys will not carry over to v2. Users are being pushed to 3Commas v2, and the announcement from 3Commas confirms v1 accounts will be deactivated on September 11 with no further charges.

For traders with live bots, this is not a small admin task. Every strategy running on v1 stops working on that date, and the 3commas shutdown creates a forced migration with a hard deadline.

This guide covers what is actually happening, what you need to export before the deadline, and how to rebuild your strategies in a way that survives platform changes.

What Is Actually Happening

The facts, verified from 3Commas official channels on August 24, 2026:

• 3Commas v1 platform closes September 11, 2026

• All API connections to v1 are deactivated on that date

• API keys do not carry over to v2, so every connection must be recreated

• v1 accounts stop being charged after the closure

• Users are directed to 3Commas v2, the newer platform, with a separate agentic product line (QuantPilot) that opened publicly on June 17, 2026

The practical deadline is not September 11. It is the day your exchange keys stop working, which is the same day. If your bots are live, plan the migration for the week before, not the day of.

What to Export Before the Deadline

The first step is inventory, because most of what you can rebuild lives in your account configuration. Before v1 closes, export:

• Every bot's pair list, order size, and base currency settings

• The exact parameters of every DCA, grid, or signal bot you run

• Any signal sources or external webhook configurations

• Your take profit and stop loss rules, including trailing settings

• Historical performance data if the platform still allows exports

None of these transfer automatically. 3Commas states keys do not carry over to v2, which means the new account starts empty and every bot must be recreated by hand or by script.

Why Rebuilding the Same Bots Is the Wrong Move

The migration is the moment to notice what your 3Commas account never told you: which of your bot rules actually worked. A bot platform shows you executed trades. It does not show you what the same rules would have done on three years of historical data, across different market regimes.

This is the gap the 3commas shutdown exposes. Traders are being asked to rebuild strategies they have never seen backtested. The honest sequence is the reverse: rebuild the rules, test them on historical data first, and only then redeploy them anywhere.

What Happens If You Do Nothing

It is worth being precise about the default outcome. If a trader takes no action, on September 11, 2026, every v1 bot stops receiving data, every API connection is cut, and the account stops being billed. Positions that were open on v1 are not migrated, because the keys do not carry over, so any bot that was holding a position simply stops managing it.

The consequences are not catastrophic in the way a hack is, no funds are at risk from the closure itself, but they are real. Unmanaged positions can drift without stop losses. Strategies that took months to tune are gone unless they were exported. And the urgency of the deadline means the migration is done under time pressure, which is exactly when settings get copied wrong.

The only rational response is to treat the closure date as a hard stop and do the rebuild work before it, on a schedule that leaves a buffer for mistakes.

The Migration Path: Rebuild, Backtest, Then Deploy

A practical sequence that works regardless of where you redeploy:

1. Export your bot settings as described above

2. Rewrite each bot as a plain-English strategy rule, for example "buy when RSI(14) crosses below 30, sell when it crosses above 50"

3. Backtest every rule on historical data before the migration deadline

4. Compare the backtest metrics with the performance you actually got live

5. Recreate only the strategies that passed, on 3Commas v2 or any other platform

6. Start each recreated bot at small size and compare live results with the backtest

Step three is the one most traders skip, and it is the one that separates a migration from a reset.

CoinQuant vs 3Commas v2 for the Migration

The comparison is not about which platform executes better. It is about what each platform can tell you before you risk capital. 3Commas v2 is a valid execution destination, but it cannot tell you whether a rule worked in 2022 or 2024. CoinQuant can, because that is what it does.

What a Backtested Migration Looks Like

Concrete example from the CoinQuant strategy library, verified via the API: the BTC RSI(14) Mean Reversion 1d strategy, the same RSI oversold rule many 3Commas signal bots use, backtested on daily Bitcoin from August 2021 to August 2026.

The same rule set on Ethereum lost 57.25% over the same window, which is exactly the kind of finding a bot dashboard cannot show you. The rule worked on BTC and failed on ETH, and the backtest shows both in five minutes.

Why the Deadline Is Also an Opportunity

The forced migration has one genuine upside: it removes the cost of switching. Most traders stay on a platform not because it is the best, but because moving is friction. 3Commas has now removed that friction for everyone, and the moment of migration is the moment a trader can fix the entire pipeline, not just the execution layer.

The traders who come out of this shutdown best are not the ones who recreate their old bots fastest. They are the ones who use the deadline to add the step they never had: strategy validation before deployment. A migration that includes a backtest pass for every recreated strategy is a migration that upgrades the system, and the upgrade is the point of the exercise.

The Practical Lesson

The 3Commas shutdown is a deadline, not a disaster. The migration risk is not losing the bots, it is recreating untested rules on a new platform and discovering the problems live.

• Export everything before September 11, 2026

• Rewrite your bots as plain-English strategy rules

• Backtest each rule before you redeploy

• Redeploy only what passed, at small size first

• Keep the strategy definitions independent of any single platform

Platforms come and go. Strategies, written as plain rules and validated on historical data, are portable. That is the only asset from your 3Commas account that will still be useful after the closure.

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