Deposit USDC to your Hyperliquid account
Hyperliquid trades perpetuals against USDC. To fund your account you bridge USDC from Arbitrum (or another supported chain) into Hyperliquid's clearinghouse.
Bridge from Arbitrum
The canonical deposit path is Arbitrum โ Hyperliquid via the official bridge at https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/deposit (or the bridge UI inside the HL web app). Connect MetaMask, select USDC on Arbitrum as the source, enter the amount, sign the transfer.
Settlement is typically a few minutes. Once it lands you'll see the USDC balance under your Hyperliquid account; the bot reads this balance every minute and sizes new entries from it.
Don't have USDC on Arbitrum?
Most CEXes (Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, Bybit) let you withdraw USDC directly on Arbitrum to a 0x... address. Pick "Arbitrum One" as the network, paste your MetaMask address. Withdrawal fees vary (Coinbase is free above a small threshold, others typically $1โ3).
If you only have USDC on Ethereum mainnet, bridge it to Arbitrum first via the official Arbitrum bridge (https://bridge.arbitrum.io). Or use a third-party DEX aggregator that supports cross-chain swaps.
Min deposit + first-trade sizing
There is no protocol-level minimum, but per-trade min size on HL perp is typically $10 notional. Botely sizes each entry as `min(your equity, plan cap) ร sizing fraction` โ with default 37.5% sizing, an equity below ~$30 won't let the bot place trades that satisfy the min-order rule.
Practical floor: ~$50 equity to let the bot operate, ~$500+ to follow the strategies meaningfully. The plan cap is a ceiling, not a target.