Guides: precise questions, precise answers
One question per page, answered in its first lines, then explained: funding, open interest, liquidations, fees, bots, and what an AI agent can sign.
Every guide
- Can AI trade Hyperliquid?Yes, with an API wallet. What it needs, and what it must never hold.
- Automating HyperliquidThe API, the SDKs, API wallets, nonces and the rate limits as documented.
- Hyperliquid for botsWhat makes it workable for automation, and what punishes a careless program.
- Give an agent limited accessThe approval, its expiry, and the limits a key alone does not carry.
- Can an agent withdraw?Measured on mainnet: every send refused, one vault deposit accepted.
- How often funding is paidEvery hour, at one eighth of the 8-hour rate. The formula and a worked example.
- Why funding goes negativeThe perp trades under the index, so shorts pay longs. How far under it takes.
- Reading open interestThe four cases of price and open interest, and why the side is never in it.
- What causes a short squeezeForced buying, where it comes from, and the ingredients behind it.
- Detecting a short squeezeFunding, open interest and liquidations of shorts: the grain and the gaps.
- The liquidation price formulaHyperliquid's formula, term by term, with a worked example.
- Avoiding liquidationLeverage, spare margin, margin mode, and a stop against room.
- How the fees are calculatedMaker and taker rates, the tiers, the discounts, and builder fees.
- What HIP-3 isBuilder-deployed perps, their own dexes, and isolated margin by force.
- Checking a bot firstSix questions on keys, limits, record and costs, answered.
- Which trading strategySteps, a stop, a grid or a range, and how to measure each.