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hyperweave — Getting started

Build a crypto-trading strategy, prove it on real data, and run it for real — no coding. You can start with no wallet and no API key: paper-trade against live prices, then go live with real funds when you're ready.

✨ Free forever to build, backtest, evolve, and paper-trade. Paper trading runs your strategy against real Hyperliquid prices with simulated fills (real fees + slippage) on a virtual $1,000 — no wallet, no risk. Going live with real funds is a Pro feature. Any key you add is encrypted at rest, never shared, and trading-only (it can never withdraw).

1. Start free — no setup

Sign in at app.hyperweave.co. You land on the Paper dashboard.
Click ▶ Run a demo on paper to launch a ready-made trend-follower instantly — it starts trading on its own. Or click Build your own to open the strategy wizard.
Watch it trade live (real prices, simulated fills) on the Paper tab. No wallet, no API key, no risk.

2. Pick a strategy type

Mechanical	No AI, no key. Trend-follower, Momentum (long/short), Funding carry, Signal, or your own if-then Rules. Free to build, backtest, evolve, and paper-trade.
AI agent	A model reads the market each cycle and decides. Try DeepSeek on free credits, or run any model via OpenRouter (next section).
Describe it	Write your idea in plain English and an AI compiles a deterministic rules/signal strategy you can review, backtest, and run.

3. Try an AI agent — free credits

Pick a DeepSeek AI agent and backtest it on your free monthly trial credits — no key, no setup. (The checklist's "Try an AI agent (free)" button does this in one click.)
To run AI live, or use other models (Claude, GPT, Llama, …): Connect OpenRouter once on your Profile. You authorize on OpenRouter's site and we receive a scoped key — nothing to copy-paste.

4. Backtest & evolve — free

Backtest replays any strategy over real market history on the Replays page — free, no wallet. Tick several and Backtest selected to compare them together.
Evolve runs a genetic search over a strategy's parameters (or an AI agent's prompt) and plots the return-vs-drawdown frontier — deploy a winning variant as a new strategy in one click.

5. Go live with real funds (Pro)

Paper trading is free forever. To run a strategy live on Hyperliquid mainnet:

Subscribe to Pro ($19/mo) on your Profile. (Real-money trading is approved per account during beta.)
Fund a mainnet account: at app.hyperliquid.xyz, deposit USDC and move it to your Perps balance.
Create a trading-only API wallet: More → API → generate an API wallet and authorize it (sign with your main wallet). Copy the API private key — it can trade but cannot withdraw.
Add the wallet on your Profile (or on the agent): your main account address (holds funds) + the API private key (does the trading). Then hit Go live — the agent trades within ~a minute.

Risk rails: each strategy has a drawdown limit and a global kill-switch. Stop returns an agent to idle; open positions stay on your wallet. Real money has real drawdowns — and a directional call is roughly a coin flip, so edge comes from mechanics (payoff asymmetry, funding carry, sizing), not prediction. Start small.

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