03 — Funding

Money in and out

You fund from your Avalanche wallet, and it comes back to the same Avalanche wallet. Relay carries it in both directions.

The route #

Both halves of the site are funded from Avalanche, and the crossing is done by Relay. For perps, Relay quotes Avalanche to Hyperliquid directly, so the margin lands as USDC in your Hyperliquid account. There is no separate Arbitrum bridge step to do first.

  1. 01

    Sign in

    Your Avalanche wallet is the account, and the address it signs with is where money will return.

  2. 02

    Deposit from Avalanche

    You sign one or two ordinary transactions in your own wallet. Relay routes them.

  3. 03

    Trade

    The balance lands at the venue and shows up in the app as your available margin or collateral.

  4. 04

    Withdraw home

    Free balance goes back to the Avalanche address in your session, and nowhere else.

Avalanche wallet → Relay → venue → Avalanche wallet. The transactions you sign and the expected delivery are shown before you sign anything.

Depositing #

A deposit screen asks Relay for a quote, and that quote is the transactions you are about to sign. So a route Relay will not take is an error on the screen rather than a deposit that strands halfway. Before you sign, the app shows what Relay expects to deliver, its fee, and how long it expects to take.

  • You can fund in AVAX or in USDC on Avalanche.
  • Every transaction is signed in your own wallet; the server never signs for your Avalanche address.
  • The chain each transaction is built for is checked before it reaches you, so a quote on the wrong chain is refused.

Withdrawing #

A withdrawal always goes to the Avalanche address in your session cookie. There is no field to type a destination into, because there is no destination to choose.

How a perps withdrawal leaves

An internal transfer, not the Hyperliquid bridge

Hyperliquid's own bridge costs a dollar, takes minutes, and only pays out on Arbitrum. Instead, Relay hands back a one-time address on Hyperliquid's own chain, and your account makes an internal USDC transfer to it — which costs nothing and settles in a block. Relay then delivers to your Avalanche wallet.

A route that fails refunds to your own venue account rather than stranding, so the money stays somewhere it can be moved again.

You can only withdraw what is actually free. Margin backing an open position or a resting order is not free, so the app will tell you to close a position or cancel an order to release more.

Minimums #

The perps minimums exist because of what sits behind them: Hyperliquid refuses an order worth less than $10, so funding an account with less than that would give you a balance you could not trade. The deposit screen says so up front instead.

Perpetuals — minimums, as the app enforces them
Action Minimum Why
Deposit $10 Anything smaller cannot place an order
Withdrawal $5 Floor on an outbound transfer
Order notional $10 Hyperliquid's own floor
Bridging and on-chain transactions carry their own network costs, and Relay charges its own fee for the route. Both are quoted before you sign.