How to export your Bybit transaction history for your crypto tax report

How to export your Bybit history

1. 1

   Open the Data Export page

   On the Bybit website, hover over your Profile and go to Account → Data Export. Alternatively, go to Assets → Funding Account → History → Data Export. Bybit notes that the feature is available for verified accounts.

2. 2

   Choose a data type and the records you need

   Pick the data type, then tick the records. For tax, the useful ones are Order History → Spot Order and Trade History, Funding Records → Deposit and Withdrawal History, and the Transaction Log for your Funding and Unified Trading accounts. The Account Statement is a PDF summary and can’t be imported.

3. 3

   Set the time range, one year at a time

   Choose Customize and set the dates. A single export covers at most 12 months, so request one export per year back to when you started. Bybit allows a limited number of exports per month across all data types.

4. 4

   Include sub-accounts if you used them

   If you used sub-accounts, select them from your main account; batch export for main and sub-accounts is only possible from there.

5. 5

   Wait for the files, then download

   Transaction Log and Order History exports can take one to three days. When the status changes to Exported, click Download. Links are valid for seven days, so download promptly. The files may arrive compressed; extract the CSVs first.

6. 6

   Import every file together

   Drop all of the CSV files into the crypto tax calculator in one go. Each file type is detected separately and the overlaps are checked for duplicates.

What the columns mean

Column names as seen in open-source importers, not documented by Bybit itself. Bybit has several export types and has changed their headers over time, so the columns in your files may differ. The spot order and trade history columns vary by export version and are not listed here; check the header row of each file.

Quirks to know

• Several files, not one. Each export type is a separate CSV with its own columns. Trades are in one file and deposits and withdrawals in another, so you need both for a complete picture.
• One year per export. If you traded for several years, you’ll have several files of each type.
• Unified Trading Account. After an account upgrade, older activity appears in the “Pre-UTA Upgrade” exports. Include those if your history goes back before the upgrade.
• Internal transfers. Moving funds between your Funding and Unified Trading accounts shows up as transfer rows. These are not disposals.
• Exports from the account pages. You can also export from the Unified Trading Account and order pages, but those are limited to six months and 10,000 entries per file. The Data Export page has no entry limit.

How CryptoTaxOwl reads these files

Each Bybit file is recognised by its header fingerprint and handled by the matching parser, so you can drop them all in at once.

• Spot trade rows become trades with both legs and the fee. Rows that belong to the same fill are grouped into one trade.
• When a trade is against a stablecoin or fiat, its value comes from the file first. Bundled daily prices are only used when the file has no usable value. Note that stablecoins such as USDT are treated as crypto, not cash.
• Deposits and withdrawals become transfer candidates. A deposit with no matching withdrawal from an account you imported shows a missing cost basis issue so you can say what it was.
• Any type or description the parser doesn’t know becomes an “Unknown type” issue for you to resolve. It is never quietly treated as taxable or non-taxable.

Sending crypto between Bybit and your own wallets needs matching, not tax. See transfers between your own wallets.

Known issues and gaps

• Derivatives are out of scope. Perpetuals, futures, options, margin and copy-trading rows are flagged as unsupported and excluded by default. Profit and loss on derivatives is not calculated in this version, so get advice if that applies to you.
• Earn and bots. Earn, lending, grid and other bot records come in their own exports. Rewards you import may need classifying as income through the issues queue.
• Missing cost basis. Crypto bought elsewhere and sent to Bybit arrives without its purchase cost. Import the other exchange or wallet too.
• History limits. Bybit says data is available from 1 January 2022 on the Data Export page. If you need older records, check with Bybit what is available.

If your file isn’t recognised

Bybit changes its export formats from time to time. If a file isn’t recognised:

• Use the column mapper in the crypto tax calculator to choose which column holds the date, type, amounts and fees.
• Or convert the file with the crypto CSV converter into the simple CryptoTaxOwl template.

See how it works for the template and the checks run on every import.

Bybit export: frequently asked questions