Before letting the AI ​​agent touch the contract, clarify these things first

Binance recently expanded its AI Agent Skills, adding four new skills: Alpha, derivatives (USDS-M contracts), margin trading, and assets. The literal meaning is quite straightforward: your AI agent can check early DeFi token data, run contract orders, borrow coins for margin trading, and manage wallet balances and withdrawals. There are a lot of things, but the contract part requires clearing out the risks first.

The installation method is not complicated. Use a terminal agent framework (such as OpenClaw) to directly say "Install Binance Skills for me" to the agent, or run the command npx skills add binance/binance-skills-hub. The agent will automatically install the package, pull the official skills warehouse, and initialize the tools. The details of different frameworks may be different, depending on the document you are using.

Among these four skills, Alpha is public data and does not require an API key. The other three skills must go to the Binance API management page to open the key and open the corresponding permissions according to the purpose. Let’s talk about each one below.

The Alpha skill does not touch transactions, but shows the agent the market prices of early DeFi tokens on Binance Alpha. No authentication is required, just install it and you can check: which tokens are currently listed, trading rules, K-lines (1m, 5m, 1h, 1d, etc.), price statistics in the past 24 hours, and aggregate transactions. For example, you can ask the agent to "display the 24-hour price statistics of a certain Alpha token" or "pull the 1-hour K-line of the last 24 hours." This is suitable for early project screening or monitoring changes, but remember that this is only market data, not investment advice.

The derivatives skill corresponds to the USDS-M contract and has the most functions, covering 70+ API endpoints, and can manage market prices, orders, positions, and leverage. The market part does not require authentication: the market depth, funding rate, mark price, open positions, K-line, ticker, and liquidation orders can all be obtained. Placing orders and managing accounts require an API key, and Enable Futures must be checked in the key's permissions. It is recommended to run on the testnet for the first time. The testnet gives fake money, which is suitable for adjusting the strategy before touching the mainnet. When placing an order on the mainnet, the agent generally requires the agent to explicitly ask you for confirmation, and do not turn on automatic confirmation.

Several common examples: ask the agent "What is the current funding rate of BTCUSDT perpetual"; place a buy order of 0.01 BTC with a price limit of $60,000 on the test network; check the unrealized profit and loss of all open contracts; set the ETHUSDT contract leverage to 10x. The leverage range depends on the trading pair, and can be as high as 1x–125x, but not every currency is that high. High leverage means that the probability of forced liquidation increases, and the funding rate will also eat up the profits of long-term positions, so don't get itchy when you see 125x. When training agents, develop the habit of running the test network first, placing stop-loss orders, and keeping an eye on the funding rate, which can avoid many pitfalls.

Margin trading skills manage full positions and isolated positions, and can borrow coins, return coins, check interest rates, and place margin orders. Before equipping, Enable Spot & Margin Trading must be turned on on the API management page, and the margin function must be activated on the account itself. There are quite a variety of order types: market price, limit price, OCO, OTO, and OTOCO. There are only three levels of leverage adjustment: 3x, 5x, and 10x. If you want a higher level, you have to go to the interface and manually change it. Example: Check the borrowing interest rate of ETH in the cross position; first borrow 1 ETH, and then place a limit sell order at $4,000; place an OCO order for BTCUSDT, with the take profit set at $70,000, the stop loss set at $58,000, and the amount 0.01 BTC; check the current cross position margin level and mortgage rate. Interest accumulates on an hourly basis, and if the margin level drops to a certain level, forced liquidation will be triggered, so don’t let the agent hold the order for a long time without monitoring it. Isolated margin accounts can isolate risks in a single trading pair and are more friendly to novices.

Asset skills are most like a wallet manager: check spot wallet and capital wallet balances, asset details, recharge addresses, withdrawals, BNB deductions, transfer small assets to BNB, and check maker/taker rates. Example: Display the spot balance worth more than $10; check the deposit address of USDT on the TRC-20 network; check the withdrawal records of the last 7 days; convert dust to BNB; check the maker/taker rate of BTCUSDT. For withdrawal-related operations, you must open an IP whitelist and address whitelist, and check the network (ERC-20, TRC-20, BEP-20, etc.) before recharging.

These four skills can be strung together into a process, for example, first let Alpha scan for tokens whose trading volume has increased by more than 50% in the past 24 hours; then use derivatives to check the funding rate and open positions of this coin; then let the margin account borrow USDT to open 5 times more orders; at the same time, use derivatives to place a -5% stop loss on the contract hedging order; and finally convert the profit into USDT and transfer it to the capital wallet. It sounds smooth, but every step involves real money, and you have to pay for the handling fees, interest, and liquidation spreads.

There is nothing new in terms of security, but you should not skip what you should do: don’t save API keys in plain text; open an IP whitelist for all keys; open an address whitelist for keys that can be withdrawn; run the process on the test network first; choose leverage that you can handle; and leverage orders must have stop losses. Let’s talk about costs: there are handling fees for transactions, and the market-making and order-taking rates are related to your level. There may be discounts for using BNB to deduct them. The rebate ratio depends on your invitation relationship. You also need to pay interest for borrowing coins. Check these numbers in your account. Don’t let the AI ​​agent ignore your costs when it automatically executes.

Reference: Binance Academy https://www.binance.com/en/academy/articles/binance-ai-agent-skills-alpha-derivatives-margin-and-assets

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