Hummingbot v2.17.0 Released — Kalshi Perpetual Futures Support Added

Open-source market-making and arbitrage bot Hummingbot released v2.17.0. A new Kalshi perpetual futures exchange connector enables prediction market strategies.

Hummingbot — Market-Making & Arbitrage Bot · Release v2.17.0 · 2026-09-22

Open-source market-making and arbitrage bot Hummingbot released v2.17.0. A new Kalshi perpetual futures exchange connector enables prediction market strategies. Includes Hyperliquid authentication error fixes, Gateway unified routing improvements, and LP executor position refresh interval settings. XRPL token symbol parsing issues and backtesting performance were also improved.

weltiq perspective: Kalshi perpetual futures support allows backtesting and automated execution of prediction market strategies on weltiq, while improved Hyperliquid authentication stability increases live connection reliability.

Release Notes Excerpt

What's Changed Update README exchange tables for v2.16.0 by @fengtality in #8402 Update README for master: exchange tables, Getting Started, Strategies by @fengtality in #8403 Feat/std executor config failures by @cardosofede in #8421 fix / Hyperliquid auth silently accepting wrong private keys ( #7866 ) by @ipezygj in #8212 Fix Hyperliquid builder fee not resolving when connector is embedded by @fengtality in #8417 (derive) rename config keys to reflect session-key auth by @david-hummingbot in #8430 feat(gateway): adopt the unified route surface, and give executors a slippage ramp by @fengtality in #8431 feat(gateway): add token discovery client method by @mlguys in #8441 feat(gateway): tri…

Source: https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot/releases/tag/v2.17.0