What happens to your money while you sleep
The real question in copy trading is not whether a trader is good. It is what happens when something goes wrong at three in the morning — a dropped connection, a partial fill, a position that should have closed and did not. This page describes the machinery that exists for exactly those moments, and is honest about what it does not cover.
Your funds never move
hypeRank is non-custodial. Your collateral stays in your own Hyperliquid account and is never transferred to us, pooled, or held in a vault we control.
Copying works through a Hyperliquid agent wallet. An agent can sign trading actions on your behalf — opening, reducing and closing positions — and nothing else. It carries no withdrawal permission. Even in the worst case, where our infrastructure is fully compromised, the attacker can place trades but cannot move a single dollar out of your account.
Agent approvals expire, and you can revoke one at any time from Hyperliquid directly, without our involvement.
Copying on Lighter Robinhood, and how it differs
Traders are tracked and scored on Hyperliquid in every case. A follow can, however, be executed on Lighter Robinhood instead. The signal is identical; the account, the balance and the exchange rules are not.
We say this plainly because it is the one place where our custody story is weaker. Lighter Robinhood has no agent wallet equivalent. Copying works through a trading key held on our side, which can open and close positions and can only ever move funds to the address that registered the account. It cannot send your money to a third party. It is still a stronger permission than a Hyperliquid agent wallet carries, and you should weigh that before enabling it.
The fee approval on Lighter Robinhood carries an expiry date. When it lapses, copying on that venue stops rather than continuing quietly, and you are notified in advance with the number of days left shown on the Lighter Robinhood page.
What is not covered yet: the automatic repair that corrects a drifted position on Hyperliquid does not run on Lighter Robinhood. A Lighter Robinhood position that diverges is surfaced to you rather than silently corrected. Markets that Lighter Robinhood does not list are skipped with a reason recorded, and orders below the exchange minimum are not sent.
Ten checks, each of which can stop a trade
When a trader you follow fills, we do not simply mirror it. The fill is evaluated against every one of the following. Any single failure means no order is sent, and the reason is recorded.
- 01Follow is activeA paused or stopped follow never produces an order, even if the trader fills.
- 02Builder fee approvedLive copying requires an explicit on-chain builder approval from your wallet.
- 03Agent wallet is activeIf the agent is missing or revoked, copying stops rather than failing silently.
- 04Agent has not expiredAgent approvals carry an expiry. Expired agents are blocked, and you are notified before that point.
- 05Coin is not excludedAny market you exclude is skipped, even when the trader is active in it.
- 06Open position capNew positions are refused once your configured maximum is reached. Reducing trades still pass.
- 07Leverage capOrders above the lower of your cap and the asset's own maximum are rejected.
- 08Stop lossA per-follow stop loss in USD ends copying for that trader when breached.
- 09Daily loss limitOnce realised loss for the day crosses your limit, further opening trades are blocked until the next day.
- 10Notional and slippage capsOrders exceeding your maximum position size, or requiring more slippage than you allow, are not sent.
Leverage is checked against real exposure, not the leverage setting displayed on a wallet. A trader nominally at 3× who is carrying far more notional than their equity supports is treated as what they actually are.
The system checks its own work
Sending an order is the easy part. The harder problem is detecting when reality has quietly diverged from what the system believes. Four independent loops run continuously against that.
Compares what your account actually holds against what copying should have produced. When they diverge, the difference is corrected automatically, with a five-minute cooldown per position so a transient mismatch cannot turn into an order loop.
Recomputes realised profit and loss per follow from settled trades, so the daily loss limit is enforced against reconciled figures rather than optimistic in-memory state.
Re-checks that every logged copy event corresponds to a real fill, catching orders that were recorded but never landed.
Tracks agent approval expiry and notifies you before copying would stop, rather than after.
Scoring runs on physically separate infrastructure from the copy engine, on its own network path. A burst of ranking work cannot consume the rate budget that live copying depends on.
We try to break it first
The copy engine is exercised under deliberately hostile conditions: fault injection that kills workers and severs connections mid-operation, long-running soak tests that surface slow leaks, and load testing against the API surface. Order placement is verified against a live account with test-sized orders before changes reach the path that handles real allocations.
Every deployment is built and verified before it reaches production, and the copy engine keeps running untouched while the web layer is updated — copying does not pause because a page changed.
One fee, charged on-chain
hypeRank charges a builder fee of 0.02% (2 basis points) on every order it places for you — once when a position opens, once when it closes. The fee is collected on-chain by Hyperliquid at fill time. There is no subscription, no performance fee, no withdrawal fee, and no charge of any kind in paper mode.
Hyperliquid's own fee is charged by the exchange, not by us, and drops as your account reaches higher volume tiers. On a standard account, roughly seven tenths of what a copied trade costs you goes to the exchange.
About the authorisation you sign.Hyperliquid's builder-fee mechanism requires you to approve a ceiling, not a rate. The one-time signature in the agent setup authorises up to 0.1% — the maximum the protocol allows for perpetuals. We charge 0.02%, one fifth of that ceiling. We are telling you this because you will see the higher number on the signature screen and you should know why. You can revoke the approval on Hyperliquid at any time; we re-check it against the chain rather than trusting our own records.
Every fee charged is recorded per fill and shown in your dashboard.
What this does not protect you from
None of the above makes copy trading safe. It makes the mechanics reliable, which is a much narrower claim.
- A trader you copy can lose money. Every risk control here bounds how much you lose, not whether you lose.
- Copy score is derived from past performance. It is a screen, not a prediction.
- Copied fills arrive after the trader's own fill. In fast markets your entry will be worse than theirs.
- Paper mode reproduces the full flow but cannot reproduce real slippage or real fills. Treat its results as optimistic.
- Hyperliquid itself, and the wider market, can behave in ways no client-side control can absorb.
- This is a public beta. It is built carefully, but it has not been running for years.
Mainnet uses real funds. Only allocate what you can afford to lose entirely, and start in paper mode if you have not copied before.