---
title: "Trading on Hyperliquid with your coding agent"
type: "experiment"
number: "AW-003"
date: "2026-10-13"
built_by: ["Elton Tay"]
tags: ["Experiment"]
summary: "An agent took USDC from Arc to Hyperliquid and back, opening and closing a $10 BTC position along the way. A person approved every step that moved money."
url: "https://agentic-works.circle.com/experiments/aw-003-trading-on-hyperliquid"
---

# Trading on Hyperliquid with your coding agent

> An agent took USDC from Arc to Hyperliquid and back, opening and closing a $10 BTC position along the way. A person approved every step that moved money.

[Video: The agent routing USDC from Arc to Hyperliquid and back](https://agentic-works.circle.com/videos/experiments/aw-003-hyperliquid.mp4)

Elton Tay built this for our booth at Hyperliquid Summit in Singapore. He wanted to see if an agent could move USDC onto a trading venue, place a trade and bring the money back, with a person approving each step.

The agent doesn't trade by itself. It hires another agent. Otto is a third-party trading agent on Agent Marketplace that sells Hyperliquid actions as endpoints, paid per call over x402. Elton's agent pays Otto in USDC each time it needs something done.

The trade is decided in advance. The agent runs the steps in order, and it waits for a fresh approval whenever money is about to move.

Otto works from a Safe on Arbitrum, so the USDC starts on Arc and CCTP bridges it over first:

| step | move | action | via |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01 | Arc → Arbitrum | bridge | Circle CLI · CCTP |
| 02 | Wallet → Safe | transfer | Agent Wallet |
| 03 | Safe → Hyperliquid | deposit | otto /hl-deposit-withdraw |
| 04 | Hyperliquid | open perp | otto /trade-perpetuals |
| 05 | Hyperliquid | close | otto /close-position |
| 06 | Hyperliquid → Safe | withdraw | otto /hl-deposit-withdraw |
| 07 | Safe → Wallet | withdraw | otto /withdraw |

*Each call paid per request over x402 via Circle Gateway Nanopayments*

Writing the code wasn't the hard part. General-purpose coding agents wrote it without complaint, but they hesitated to move money straight from a chat, which is a reasonable default. What worked was a deterministic harness that sets the boundaries up front. It runs in dry-run mode by default and checks every action against preset limits. It keeps the wallet, the Safe, the Hyperliquid collateral and the Gateway fee balance separate. It also logs each proposed action next to what was actually executed.

Otto's endpoints don't have a testnet mode, so this ran on mainnet with real USDC, in very small amounts.

**Try it yourself**
Give your agent a wallet first, and then some trading instructions.

```
curl -sL https://agents.circle.com/skills/setup.md and follow the
instructions to set up Circle Agent Wallet
```

- [Otto on Agent Marketplace](https://agents.circle.com/services)
- [Bridge USDC with Circle CLI](https://developers.circle.com/agent-stack/agent-wallets/wallet-operations/bridge)

built_by: Elton Tay
shown_at: Hyperliquid Summit · Singapore · 2026-10-05
stack: Circle CLI · CCTP · Agent Wallet · Gateway · Agent Marketplace
services: otto · 6 endpoints · x402

*Product demo, not a trading recommendation.*

## Endpoints
- https://agentic-works.circle.com/experiments/aw-003-trading-on-hyperliquid.md  # this view, as Markdown
- https://agentic-works.circle.com/experiments/aw-003-trading-on-hyperliquid  # the same page for people
- https://agentic-works.circle.com/llms.txt  # the site index for agents

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