How to Track Your Crypto Portfolio using Delta?

Every time I hit the refresh button on my social media feed, there’s someone who is saying that you should buy bitcoin because it’s still very early. While they are true, they often overlook the downsides of newer technologies. Yes, it’s because we are so new in the entire crypto ecosystem and web3, there’s a lot of ground to cover before we can see the mass adoption. One issue coming out of this nascence, that I face on a daily basis, is tracking of my crypto portfolio.

You see, in centralized exchanges, they would tell you the amount of the assets that you have and it’s current value. Some exchanges might also show the net profit/loss. But no body is talking about my lifetime, asset wise, profits or losses. This is implemented so seamlessly in stock brokers like Zerodha, ICICI Direct, Upstox etc. that I kind of miss it now.

Amongst the exchanges that I use: CoinDCX, WazirX, Binance, FTX, none of them have this feature. Oh, I have heard that Coinswitch Kuber has it, but it was late before I came to know about it.

So I decided to take matters in my hands and track that damned portfolio of mine, spread across various exchanges. This blogpost reviews the platform that I doubled down on: Delta. How to track your crypto portfolio? Let’s go!

Why Delta?

Before jumping in to this particular platform, I tried to dabble around with a couple of apps. A quick context of why I chose Delta over the others.

• It had a rather simple UI. Other apps on the top of the charts like blockfolio, Pionex, Coin Market Manager had other services too, which kind of felt like a clutter to me. I already have so many crypto related apps. So I wanted one just for my portfolio management and nothing else.

• This one is both downside and upside of Delta. It connects to all key foreign exchanges. This means I could easily connect to Binance (which has most of my holdings) but missed out on CoinDCX, which is my go to platform for multiple purchases.

• In terms of cost, some exchanges charged for connecting to exchanges, delta was free up to a certain limit.

How to Connect Binance with Delta:

In this section, we would connect Binance with Delta so that it can track your portfolio automatically without any manual intervention. For that, let’s first understand what all do we need:

• Delta application (Duh!) (Google Playstore || iOS App Store)
• You would also need a laptop to login to Binance. The mobile app does not have the options we are going to use.

Sorted? Let’s go.

Step 1:

Head over to the menu as shown in the screenshot and tap on connections. You would find options to connect with exchanges, wallets and brokers here. You want to head over to the exchange and select Binance if you are outside US or Binance US if you are within the states.

Step 2:

Head over to Binance and login with your credentials. Head over to your profile picture icon and from the dropdown menu, select API Management. (Screenshot below)

Step 3:

Create a label for this API. You might want to do it multiple times for different purposes in the future, so let’s call what it is right now: Delta API.

Step 4:

Click on create API and verify using your email ID and mobile number. Why? Because you are essentially exposing your personal financial data through this API to a third party. So beware of the consequences of this falling in the incorrect hands.

Once verified, you would see a screen that looks something like what is is shown in the screenshot. Keep this data handy because you are going to use it in the Delta application.

Make sure that read only option is enabled here. You could edit the restrictions from the button but since we are simply tracking the portfolio, it is better that you give the read only access. Further access is meant for bot trading etc.

Step 5:

From the application, select the camera button you see next to the API key. Scan the QR code shown in the screenshot above and it will automatically fetch API key and API Secret. Alternatively you can also copy and paste it from Binance (I would judge you if you did so). At this point you would have four options to import which are pretty much self explanatory:

• Import all transactions
• Import all transactions since date
• Import new transactions only (Transactions that you would make after connecting to Delta)
• Import balances only (This would only show the current balances and NOT PnL.)

Conclusion:

And that’s pretty much it. Once you have completed the steps above, your portfolio should get refreshed in a minute or so. If there is any issue with the API, there is an option to manually add or delete the data as well.
I personally had some glitches while portfolio was trying to gauge my PnL on staking rewards. However, after manual tweaking, it is working just fine.

Secondly, I also added my transactions from Indian exchanges manually and it merges it with Binance transactions seamlessly.

If you have a better solution of solving this problem, would love to hear from you.

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Until next time..

Btw, if you are a seasoned trader or just testing the waters with derivatives, here’s an exchange specifically meant for that. Head over to MCS using this link. Still not convinced? Join the vibrant community that is talking about MCS on Telegram, here.