Connect in 3 steps
The PingNitro client runs on your computer as a local proxy at 127.0.0.1, port 1081. Your terminal only needs to be pointed at that proxy. Orders and exchange settings stay unchanged; if your API key is restricted to IP addresses, add our exit addresses to it (see below).
The PingNitro app and your terminal run on the same computer, and the app stays open while you trade. Already installed? → to the Tiger.com (Tiger.Trade) setup
- Get access. In the bot @pingnitrobot or in your
account press "Connect for free". There is no key to enter: in the app window click "Sign in with Telegram" and the app gets your key itself.
What you should see: the bot or your account shows your access and the date it is valid until.
- Download and install the app. Choose your system:
Continue on your computer — send the link to Telegram
The app works on Windows and macOS; a trading terminal can't be connected through it from a phone. Open the link on the computer where your terminal is.
Run
PingNitro-Setup.exe→ "Install" (no administrator rights needed; shortcuts in the Start menu and on the desktop, autostart, uninstall via "Apps"). In the app window click "Sign in with Telegram" — the bot opens; press "Start" and you're signed in. A PingNitro icon appears near the clock: a green dot means the route works, a red one means it doesn't; right-click opens the menu (open the window, turn the route off, restart, quit).If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" — click "More info" → "Run anyway" (it contains the official open-source clients shadowsocks-rust and sing-box). You don't need to turn Windows protection off. Didn't work — @pingnitrosupport.- Open Terminal (⌘ Space → "Terminal"), paste the command
and press Enter. The app downloads, verifies its own integrity, installs into Applications and opens; no Mac password needed.
curl -fsSL https://pingnitro.com/mac.sh | bash - In the PingNitro window click "Sign in with Telegram" → in the bot press "Start". From then on PingNitro runs in the background and starts by itself when you log in.
- Instead of the command you can install from a DMG file — step by step, including the "Open Anyway" step, on the PingNitro for Mac page.
What you should see: the app window says "Route on" and "Working · Binance … ms", and the PingNitro icon is near the clock (on Mac — in the menu bar). - Open Terminal (⌘ Space → "Terminal"), paste the command
- Set the proxy in your terminal — choose yours below. It is the same everywhere: type HTTP, address 127.0.0.1,
port 1081, login and password empty.
What you should see: the terminal shows a connection to the exchange.
Before you install — in short
Does the app have to stay open?
Yes, while you trade: the PingNitro app gives your terminal the proxy 127.0.0.1:1081, and without it the terminal won't connect to the exchange. It runs in the background and starts with the system — the PingNitro icon is near the clock (on Mac — in the menu bar).
Which systems does it work on?
Windows 10/11 and macOS 13+ on a Mac with an Apple processor (M1–M4). There is no app for phones or Intel Macs.
What affects latency?
Your city, your provider and the exchange — we don't promise a number in advance. Our measurements are on the home page; measure your own latency there before and after connecting. Programs that capture all of your computer's traffic ("all traffic" mode, TUN) lengthen the path to the exchange: add sslocal and sing-box to their exclusions or turn them off while you trade.
Do you need my exchange API keys?
No. We never ask for your API keys. Don't enter them anywhere except your terminal and don't send them to anyone — even to people writing on behalf of PingNitro. The connection between your terminal and the exchange is encrypted by the exchange itself: your keys and orders are not visible to us.
All questions · support — @pingnitrosupport
Your terminal
Menu and field names below are translated from the terminals' Russian-language interfaces; in an English-language build the wording may differ slightly. If you can't find an item, contact support.
CScalp
- Open the CScalp settings → the "Connections" tab → the "My proxies" button.
What you should see: the "My proxies" window is open.
- "Add proxy": IP address
127.0.0.1, port1081, leave login and password empty. Save.What you should see: the "My proxies" list has 127.0.0.1, port 1081. - In the connection row of the exchange you need (Binance, OKX, Bitget, Gate…), choose the proxy you added from the drop-down list.
What you should see: the exchange connection has this proxy selected.
- Reconnect to the exchange. Done — compare the feed before and after (for example with the test on our site).
What you should see: the terminal shows a connection to the exchange.
Tiger.com (Tiger.Trade)
127.0.0.1:1081.- Main menu "File" → "Connections" → "Configure".
What you should see: the list of connections is open.
- Open the exchange connection (or create a new one) → the proxy manager → add a proxy: name —
PingNitro, "Proxy settings" —127.0.0.1:1081, login and password empty.What you should see: the proxy manager has PingNitro — 127.0.0.1:1081. - In the connection, in the "Proxy" column, select
PingNitro.What you should see: the "Proxy" column of the connection shows PingNitro. - For Binance turn on all three checkboxes: "Use proxy for market data" (feed and order book — the main gain),
"…for user data" and "…for orders". For OKX — both checkboxes.
What you should see: the market data, user data and orders checkboxes are on (for OKX — both).
- Reconnect.
What you should see: the terminal shows a connection to the exchange.
Vataga.terminal (EasyScalp)
- The gear icon in the program header → the "Proxy" tab → "Add proxy".
What you should see: the "Proxy" tab is open.
- Host (the "Address" field) —
127.0.0.1, Port —1081, login and password empty. Save.What you should see: the proxy 127.0.0.1:1081 is saved. - The "Connections" tab → choose the exchange connection → in its "Proxy" field choose the proxy you created.
What you should see: the exchange connection has the proxy you created selected.
- "Proxy mode" — "Full stream" (both the feed with the order book and your orders go through the route; in the "Orders only"
mode the feed stays slow).
What you should see: the proxy mode is "Full stream".
- Click the connection in the header — the green "Connected" indicator lights up.
What you should see: the green "Connected" indicator is lit in the header.
127.0.0.1, port 1081, login and password empty.
MetaScalp
- Settings → the "Proxy" tab → the "Add proxy server" section.
What you should see: the "Add proxy server" section is open.
- Name —
PingNitro, IP address —127.0.0.1, port —1081, login and password empty → "Add".What you should see: the proxy PingNitro (127.0.0.1:1081) is added. - In the exchange connection, choose
PingNitroin the "Proxy" drop-down and reconnect.What you should see: the terminal shows a connection to the exchange.
Any other terminal
Any program that lets you set a proxy for the exchange connection will do: look for "Proxy" in the connection settings.
Type — HTTP (if you have a choice, SOCKS5 works too), address 127.0.0.1, port 1081,
no login. If the proxy can be enabled separately for "market data" and "orders", enable it for both — the feed gets faster only when it goes
through the route.
Your own bot or script
# Python + ccxt
import ccxt
ex = ccxt.binanceusdm({"apiKey": "...", "secret": "..."})
ex.httpsProxy = "http://127.0.0.1:1081/" # REST
ex.wsProxy = "http://127.0.0.1:1081/" # WebSocket (ccxt.pro)
# curl - check the route
curl -x http://127.0.0.1:1081 https://fapi.binance.com/fapi/v1/time
The PingNitro client accepts HTTP, SOCKS5 and SOCKS4 on a single port, 1081.
How to check that it works
- The PingNitro icon near the clock is green, and the app window (icon → "Open") says "Route on" with "Working · Binance … ms" at the top. If there is no icon (it may be under the ^ arrow), open PingNitro from the Start menu; on a Mac, use the menu-bar icon or launch PingNitro again: it checks the route and shows a status window.
- Run the test on our site before and after — the table shows the feed latency for your connection.
- In the terminal, look at the ping / feed latency in the connection panel. In our measurements the Binance Futures feed took 69–78 ms via the route instead of 144–145 ms direct; in your city the numbers will differ — see the measurements by city.
If it doesn't work
The terminal won't connect to the exchange after I set the proxy
- Check that PingNitro is running (the icon near the clock; it may be hidden under the ^ arrow) — without it the proxy 127.0.0.1:1081 does not work.
- Open the app window (icon → "Open"). If it says "No connection" or "Proxy not responding", tell us in the bot what you see.
- Check the proxy type: in CScalp and Tiger.com it is HTTP. The port is 1081 (not 1080).
Other network programs are running (tunnels, proxies in "all traffic" mode) — latency got worse
A program that routes everything through itself in "all traffic" (TUN) mode also captures our client's traffic, so the path to the exchange gets longer.
Add sslocal.exe (and sing-box.exe, which runs in the "Poor network (UDP)" mode) to that program's exclusions (the exclusions / split tunneling section, by process) or turn it off while you trade.
Our client does not touch the rest of your internet.
Microsoft Defender or another antivirus removed sslocal.exe or sing-box.exe
These are official open-source clients: shadowsocks-rust (sslocal.exe, GitHub) and sing-box (sing-box.exe, the "Poor network (UDP)" mode). Add the PingNitro folder to your antivirus exclusions and download the installer again in your account or in the bot (the "🪟 App for Windows" button).
Do I need to change anything in my exchange API keys?
It depends on IP restriction. Binance allows trading with a regular (HMAC) key only when the key is restricted to IP addresses — without it such a key can only read data (Binance FAQ, updated 20 March 2025). So your trading key most likely already has an IP list: add all four of our exit addresses to it — 57.182.161.238, 95.85.94.206, 95.85.94.132 and 43.165.167.202. The addresses are permanent and the route picks the best of them itself; without them the exchange will reject orders sent through the route. A key without IP restriction (an Ed25519/RSA key or one with Binance's default security controls disabled) needs no changes.
Mind the “go direct” fallback (the app setting “Go direct if the route is down”, on by default): when the route is unavailable the terminal connects from your own address — the feed keeps working, and the exchange accepts orders only if your own address is on the key's list too.
The feed is jittery on mobile internet or lossy Wi-Fi
In the app settings (version 2.4.0 and newer) turn on "Poor network (UDP)": the link to the entry runs over UDP, which keeps the feed smoother when packets are lost. The mode is off by default; if UDP doesn't get through to us, PingNitro falls back to the normal mode by itself.
Bybit / BingX are not sped up
Bybit and BingX servers are in Singapore — via our exit the path to them is longer than direct, so the PingNitro client sends them directly, outside the route, and the latency is the same as without a proxy.
How to switch it off
Remove the proxy in your terminal's connection settings and close the client window — everything goes direct again, as before.