Getting started: Hosted

With Archon Hosted, the engine runs on Archon’s servers around the clock. You install nothing and you do not need to keep a computer on. Setting up takes about fifteen minutes, most of it on Hyperliquid’s site.

What you need

• A crypto wallet you can sign in with, such as MetaMask, Rabby or Coinbase Wallet, holding ETH or USDC on Ethereum or Arbitrum One to pay with.
• A Hyperliquid account opened with a wallet. To use the testnet faucet, Hyperliquid requires that the same address has deposited on mainnet at least once.
• About fifteen minutes.

1. Sign in

Open the app and connect your wallet. The app asks you to sign a short message to prove the wallet is yours. Signing it is free and moves nothing. Your wallet address becomes your Archon account; there is no password and no email.

2. Pay for early access

Early access is $500, once, paid in ETH or USDC from the wallet you signed in with. The app reads the payment from the chain and opens your account after two confirmations. Hosting on testnet is free during the preview, so that is all you pay to start. Billing covers every detail, including what to do if your wallet cannot pay from the page.

3. Connect a testnet account

On Hyperliquid’s testnet site, create an API wallet named archon and copy its private key. In the app, choose Archon runs it for you, then paste that key and your Hyperliquid account address. Connect Hyperliquid walks through it screen by screen.

Note

The key you paste is an API wallet key: it can place orders for your account. It is not your wallet’s own key and it is never your seed phrase. If anything ever asks you for a seed phrase, stop.

4. Choose a rule and how to size it

On the same screen, pick a rule from the catalogue. If you are not sure, choose Breadth Trend: it is the frozen rule, it trades the fewest times, and it has the shallowest falls of the listed rules.

Under Advanced you can choose how many positions it holds at once. The default is one for every market the rule trades, which spreads the account evenly across them. Fewer positions mean larger ones and deeper falls; see sizing. You can also limit Archon to part of the account.

Archon checks the account before it accepts the connection: the key must be approved for that account, and the account must hold enough for every position to clear Hyperliquid’s minimum order.

5. Watch it work

The rule decides on 4-hour candles, so the first trade can take hours, and on a quiet day nothing may happen at all. That is normal. The dashboard shows what the account holds, what the rule wants, and a plain-language line for everything Archon did.

6. Moving to real money

Hosting on mainnet opens after the testnet soak. Once it is open, and after seven days on testnet without an incident, you can move to mainnet. Nothing moves automatically: you choose it.

1. Pay for a hosting pack: $50 a month, $280 for 6 months or $500 a year. Mainnet hosting is prepaid; Billing explains renewals and what happens when a pack runs out.
2. Disconnect the testnet account from the dashboard. One wallet hosts one account at a time.
3. On Hyperliquid’s main site, create a new API wallet for your mainnet account. Testnet keys do not work on mainnet.
4. Deposit USDC into your Hyperliquid account, if you have not already.
5. In the app, connect again, choose mainnet and paste the new key.
6. Optionally approve Archon’s builder fee, up to 0.01% of each order’s value. Until you approve it, it is zero.

Start with a smaller amount than you intend to use, and limit Archon to part of the account if you want it to manage only some of it.

If something looks wrong

Troubleshooting has an entry for every message the engine can write on your dashboard. The controls let you pause new trades or close everything at any time. If neither helps, write to support@archon.quest with the time and the exact message you saw.