What You Sign When You Connect to Hypertide

Last checked against the product: 2026-10-19

The short answer

Connecting asks for two signatures in your wallet. One lets our bot use a limited key on your Hyperliquid account. The other sets the highest fee we can charge for the orders we send. Both are messages you sign, so there is no gas (the network fee you normally pay on a blockchain) and no funds are moved. Your wallet shows you each message before you sign it.

Signature 1: approve the agent

Hyperliquid calls the limited key an agent wallet. By signing, you tell Hyperliquid that our bot's key may place orders for your account.

Our bot uses it to place orders, cancel orders and set leverage for the traders you chose to follow. That is what our bot uses the key for. It is not a list of everything Hyperliquid lets an agent sign.

Hyperliquid's agent permissions stop the key from withdrawing your funds or sending them to another address. That limit is enforced by Hyperliquid, not by us.

The key can still open and close trades in your account. A copied trade can lose money, and the key does not stop a bad trade.

Your main wallet key stays in your wallet and is never sent to us. The agent key is stored on our servers, encrypted. The Custody page has the detail.

You choose how long the key lasts: 30, 90 or 180 days, with 180 as the default. If you see an Advanced section on the connect page, the choice is there. When the time is up, the bot stops trading for you and you simply reconnect.

Signature 2: approve the builder fee

A builder fee is Hyperliquid's way of letting an app earn a small fee on the orders it sends. By signing, you approve the most our address may charge you. Hyperliquid's builder-code documentation says this approval must be signed by your main wallet, not by the agent key.

Hyperliquid caps a builder fee at 0.1% on perpetual futures, so an app cannot ask for more. Our code also refuses to place an order tagged with a fee above that cap.

We charge 0.1% of every order that fills, opening and closing. That is about $2 for every $1,000 you open and close. It drops to 0.05% once you have opened $10,000 through Hypertide in the last 30 days. Hyperliquid's own trading fees are separate and still apply.

Per Hyperliquid's builder-code documentation, the approval sets a maximum fee for a builder. It is not a withdrawal permission.

Switching them off

The agent key: approve a new agent on Hyperliquid with the same name, Hypertide. Hyperliquid replaces the old one, and the bot's access is gone.

The fee approval: Hyperliquid's documentation says a builder's permission can be revoked at any time. It does not give the steps, and we have not checked them in Hyperliquid's app, so we do not list them here.

Your money sits in your own Hyperliquid account. You can withdraw it on Hyperliquid whenever you want.

What can still go wrong

A followed trader can lose money, and so can you. Copy orders use your agent key to place trades on your account.

What this page does not tell you

It does not tell you whether to connect, or which trader to follow. It describes the app as of 2026-10-19. You can look at traders without connecting anything at hypertide.app/leaders. More at hypertide.app/custody, hypertide.app/fees and hypertide.app/how.