pulse-tax

Crypto tax reporting via PULSE Protocol — collect trade history from Binance, Bybit, Kraken, and OKX in one command. Export to Koinly, CoinTracker, or JSON.

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The problem

You trade on 3 exchanges. Each one stores your history differently. Koinly, CoinTracker, and every tax accountant want a CSV. You end up logging in to each exchange, hunting for the export button, downloading 3 different CSV formats, and converting them manually.

With pulse-tax: one command.

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Installation

pip install pulse-tax

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Quick Start

1. Create config file

pulse-tax init

This creates pulse_tax_config.json. Edit it to add your API keys (read-only keys are sufficient — no trading permissions needed):

{
  "binance": {
    "api_key": "YOUR_BINANCE_API_KEY",
    "api_secret": "YOUR_BINANCE_API_SECRET"
  },
  "bybit": {
    "api_key": "YOUR_BYBIT_API_KEY",
    "api_secret": "YOUR_BYBIT_API_SECRET"
  },
  "kraken": {
    "api_key": "YOUR_KRAKEN_API_KEY",
    "api_secret": "YOUR_KRAKEN_API_SECRET"
  },
  "okx": {
    "api_key": "YOUR_OKX_API_KEY",
    "api_secret": "YOUR_OKX_API_SECRET",
    "passphrase": "YOUR_OKX_PASSPHRASE"
  }
}

Remove exchanges you don't use.

2. Export

# Export 2026 trades to Koinly CSV
pulse-tax export --year 2026 --format koinly

# Export to CoinTracker
pulse-tax export --year 2026 --format cointracker

# Export to JSON (backup / custom processing)
pulse-tax export --year 2026 --format json

Output files are created in the current directory:

• koinly_2026.csv — import directly at koinly.com
• cointracker_2026.csv — import directly at cointracker.io
• pulse_tax_2026.json — full structured data

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Python API

from pulse_tax import TaxCollector, KoinlyExporter
from pulse_tax.collectors import BinanceCollector, BybitCollector

# Configure exchanges
collector = TaxCollector()
collector.add_exchange(BinanceCollector(api_key="...", api_secret="..."))
collector.add_exchange(BybitCollector(api_key="...", api_secret="..."))

# Collect
report = collector.collect(year=2026, verbose=True)
print(f"{report.total_trades} trades from {report.exchanges}")

# Export
csv = KoinlyExporter().export(report.trades, report.transfers)
with open("koinly_2026.csv", "w") as f:
    f.write(csv)

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Supported Exchanges

Exchange	Trades	Deposits/Withdrawals
Binance	Yes	Yes
Bybit	Yes (spot + perps)	Yes
Kraken	Yes	Yes
OKX	Yes (spot + futures)	Yes

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Supported Export Formats

Format	Service	How to import
koinly	Koinly	Imports > Add import > Universal CSV
cointracker	CoinTracker	Portfolio > Add transaction > CSV
json	Any	Custom processing

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Why PULSE?

pulse-tax is part of the PULSE Protocol ecosystem. PULSE provides a universal semantic interface for AI-to-AI and agent-to-service communication.

The same exchange adapters that pulse-tax uses for collecting history are also used by:

• pulse-binance for live trading
• pulse-bybit for Bybit integration
• AI trading agents built with pulse-anthropic (Claude) or pulse-openai (GPT)

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Security Note

pulse-tax only needs read-only API keys. It never places orders, never withdraws funds. Create a separate read-only key on each exchange specifically for tax reporting.

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License

Apache 2.0 — free forever, open source.