@Matti@siva How Zerodha team is planning to address what seems like a real and looming/overlooked issue.
In almost every case where I add any sort of contact or identification detail to my account, whether it’s an email address, phone number, or a document. I’m required to validate ownership. That might involve a one-time code, a verification link, or even uploading documents as proof. This is standard practice to ensure that I’m the rightful owner of the information I’m associating with my account.
So it feels inconsistent, and honestly very risky to allow something like an IPv4/IPv6 address to be added without any form of ownership validation. It effectively leaves the system open to spoofing, where anyone can register any IP address, even if they don’t own or control it. That’s a serious vulnerability.
It would not be just a technical oversight, it would cause real-world problems for users. At best, it’s chaotic, at worst, it’s exploitable.
I hope the zerodha team takes this seriously and considers adding a proper verification step for IP addresses, just as is done with other sensitive account information.
With the new deadline pushed from Aug 1, 2025 → Oct 1, 2025 now approaching, Seems like no broker has introduced even a sandboxed environment to test these, nor has there been any confirmation if they ever will. Everyone seems busy building their own algo-trading platforms with strategies marketplace first. Most likely outcome should be yet another extension, probably pushed to early next year.
@siva what’s Zerodha’s stance, same as other brokers or a different approach ?
There will be no testing environment, strategies need to be tested in live only with real funds for few months to get approved. This is incase if one want to sell them.
For individual use there is no testing involved just registration will do.
We won’t be offering any market place to begin with.
Thank you @siva for clarifying Zerodha’s stance . There’s just one thing I’d like to ask specifically: what about Static IPv4/IPv6 registration for individual users?
If the feeling is that the deadline will not be pushed again, a tentative date/week from Zerodha would help us prepare, since this step needs to be completed (and tested) by each user. So far, seems no broker including Zerodha has provided even an indicative timeline.
Once again, thank you for the wonderful work and the continuous support you and your team provide.
@siva Any possibility of Zerodha launching an algo marketplace like other brokers (e.g., Dhan)?
Since Kite hasn’t yet provided an IP whitelisting page, it would be great if you could plan something as an algo provider to run our strategy — we would love to subscribe to it.
Since Trailing Stop Loss is an algo, can Zerodha come up with something in which we can place a Fixed Stop Loss and a Trailing Stop Loss. The Entry will be manual, Exit will be automatic, but with Manual Exit possibility. This strategy will be very useful for Intraday Trading.
An extension is expected. While collecting an IP address is straightforward, there are some changes to the order path itself that would require more time to implement and test. We’re waiting on our vendors to make said changes.
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. There’s just one thing I’d like to ask specifically: what about Static IPv4/IPv6 registration for individual users?