Zero to HYPE

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Zero to HYPE

A roadmap for building on Hyperliquid, from your first API call to running a perp DEX or settling outcome markets. Each track tells you which official pages to read, which tutorials are worth your time, and what to build.

Foundations

  1. T1OrientationWhat Hyperliquid is to a developer. Two execution layers share one state, the testnet has a faucet, and API keys can trade but never withdraw.Lesson4 official pagesGuide: Get testnet funds and place one order
  2. T2Reading the exchangeEvery number a bot or dashboard needs, from the info endpoint and WebSocket feeds, with the rules for asset IDs, decimals and rate limits.Lesson8 official pagesLab: Live order book in the browserWorkbench: Tick and lot rounding
  3. T3Signing and sendingWhere most bots break. Two signing schemes, and a handful of encoding traps that make the exchange recover the wrong address.Lesson6 official pagesLab: Sign without moneyProject: Signed action from scratch

Trading

  1. T4Trading mechanicsHow the clearinghouse prices, margins, funds and liquidates positions. Most of it is formulas, so most of it becomes workbenches.Lesson12 official pagesLab: Funding and mark priceWorkbench: Margin and liquidation priceWorkbench: Fee tierProject: Funding-rate scanner
  2. T5Building on order flowHow a third-party app earns from and manages trading. Builder codes, referrals, sub-accounts, vaults and multi-sig.Reading list7 official pagesWorkbench: Builder code fee calculatorProject: Testnet market maker

Deploying markets

  1. T6Launching assetsNative spot tokens (HIP-1), the Hyperliquidity strategy that gives them a market (HIP-2), and spot quote assets.Reading list5 official pagesWorkbench: Hyperliquidity price ladder
  2. T7Running a perp DEXWhat a HIP-3 deployer must do around the clock, how sub-deployer keys work, and how real DEXs price assets when markets are closed.Lesson3 official pagesWorkbench: Oracle duty simulatorProject: Oracle keeper in shadow mode
  3. T8Outcome marketsHIP-4 templates, how markets settle, and what "TWAP" means at each venue. No tutorial covers settlement yet.Lesson2 official pagesLab: Settlement explorerProject: Settlement checker

Contracts and infra

  1. T9HyperEVMSmart contracts that read HyperCore through precompiles and act on it through CoreWriter, and the timing rules between the two layers.Reading list6 official pagesLab: CoreWriter encoderProject: CoreWriter vault with Foundry
  2. T10Infra and dataRunning a node, reading raw L1 data, and the explorer API that shows each address's transactions and errors.Reading list4 official pagesGuide: The explorer API

Try it in your browser

Three labs run against Hyperliquid's API with no funds and no real keys.

Stay current

Hyperliquid ships API changes before it documents them. The changelog records what changed each day, straight from the live API.