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Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain (HyperBFT consensus, HyperCore + HyperEVM execution) best known for its native perpetual futures and spot DEX with capacity for hundreds of thousands of orders per second. Developers and traders interact with Hyperliquid through a public REST and WebSocket API at api.hyperliquid.xyz for trading, order management, market data, and account state. Official Python and Rust SDKs wrap the API, and the node, order-book server, and HyperEVM tooling are open-sourced under the hyperliquid-dex GitHub organization.

Hyperliquid publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: WebSocket API and Info API. Tagged areas include DeFi, Perpetuals, DEX, Layer 1, and Trading.

The Hyperliquid catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hyperliquid’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, and 8 more developer resources.

36.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFree
7 APIs
DeFiPerpetualsDEXLayer 1TradingOrder BookHyperEVM

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Composite quality — 36.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 5.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Hyperliquid REST API

Public REST API for the Hyperliquid exchange. Read endpoints expose market metadata, order books, candles, trades, funding rates, user state, open orders, fills, and historical ...

Hyperliquid WebSocket API

Real-time WebSocket feed delivering order-book deltas, trades, candles, BBO, user fills, user funding, user-events, and active asset context. Also supports WebSocket-based POST ...

Hyperliquid Python SDK

Official Python SDK for the Hyperliquid REST and WebSocket APIs. Handles EIP-712 signing, action serialization, websocket subscription management, and typed wrappers for market ...

Hyperliquid Rust SDK

Official Rust SDK for the Hyperliquid REST and WebSocket APIs, suited for high-performance market-making and trading clients.

Hyperliquid Node

Open-source Hyperliquid validator / non-validating node distribution used to participate in the HyperBFT consensus network and serve HyperCore + HyperEVM state.

HyperEVM JSON-RPC

EVM-compatible JSON-RPC endpoint exposed by Hyperliquid for deploying and interacting with smart contracts on HyperEVM (chain ID 999), executed alongside HyperCore.

Hyperliquid Info API

The Info API from Hyperliquid — 1 operation(s) for info.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Hyperliquid Info API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hyperliquid Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Hyperliquid WebSocket API

AsyncAPI 2.6 specification for the Hyperliquid public WebSocket API. Clients connect to wss://api.hyperliquid.xyz/ws (mainnet) or wss://api.hyperliquid-testnet.xyz/ws (testnet) ...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Hyperliquid API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hyperliquid Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hyperliquid Agentic Access

1 operation · 1 acting

1 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: hyperliquid
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hyperliquid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Hyperliquid
kind: company
description: Hyperliquid is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain (HyperBFT consensus, HyperCore + HyperEVM execution) best
  known for its native perpetual futures and spot DEX with capacity for hundreds of thousands of orders per second. Developers
  and traders interact with Hyperliquid through a public REST and WebSocket API at api.hyperliquid.xyz for trading, order
  management, market data, and account state. Official Python and Rust SDKs wrap the API, and the node, order-book server,
  and HyperEVM tooling are open-sourced under the hyperliquid-dex GitHub organization.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hyperliquid.png
tags:
- DeFi
- Perpetuals
- DEX
- Layer 1
- Trading
- Order Book
- HyperEVM
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hyperliquid:rest-api
  name: Hyperliquid REST API
  description: Public REST API for the Hyperliquid exchange. Read endpoints expose market metadata, order books, candles,
    trades, funding rates, user state, open orders, fills, and historical data. Write endpoints (under /exchange) accept signed
    actions for placing, cancelling, and modifying orders, transferring USDC, adjusting leverage, and managing sub-accounts
    and vaults.
  humanURL: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api
  baseURL: https://api.hyperliquid.xyz
  tags:
  - REST
  - Trading
  - Market Data
  - Perpetuals
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api
- aid: hyperliquid:websocket-api
  name: Hyperliquid WebSocket API
  description: Real-time WebSocket feed delivering order-book deltas, trades, candles, BBO, user fills, user funding, user-events,
    and active asset context. Also supports WebSocket-based POST actions for low-latency order management.
  humanURL: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api/websocket
  baseURL: wss://api.hyperliquid.xyz/ws
  tags:
  - WebSocket
  - Streaming
  - Order Book
  - Real-Time
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api/websocket
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hyperliquid/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/hyperliquid-asyncapi.yml
- aid: hyperliquid:python-sdk
  name: Hyperliquid Python SDK
  description: Official Python SDK for the Hyperliquid REST and WebSocket APIs. Handles EIP-712 signing, action serialization,
    websocket subscription management, and typed wrappers for market and trading endpoints.
  humanURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-python-sdk
  baseURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-python-sdk
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Python
  - Trading
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-python-sdk
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-python-sdk
- aid: hyperliquid:rust-sdk
  name: Hyperliquid Rust SDK
  description: Official Rust SDK for the Hyperliquid REST and WebSocket APIs, suited for high-performance market-making and
    trading clients.
  humanURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-rust-sdk
  baseURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-rust-sdk
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Rust
  - Trading
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-rust-sdk
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/hyperliquid-rust-sdk
- aid: hyperliquid:node
  name: Hyperliquid Node
  description: Open-source Hyperliquid validator / non-validating node distribution used to participate in the HyperBFT consensus
    network and serve HyperCore + HyperEVM state.
  humanURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/node
  baseURL: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/node
  tags:
  - Node
  - Validator
  - Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/node
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/node
- aid: hyperliquid:hyperevm-rpc
  name: HyperEVM JSON-RPC
  description: EVM-compatible JSON-RPC endpoint exposed by Hyperliquid for deploying and interacting with smart contracts
    on HyperEVM (chain ID 999), executed alongside HyperCore.
  humanURL: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/hyperevm
  baseURL: https://rpc.hyperliquid.xyz/evm
  tags:
  - JSON-RPC
  - EVM
  - HyperEVM
  - Smart Contracts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/hyperevm
- aid: hyperliquid:hyperliquid-info-api
  name: Hyperliquid Info API
  description: The Info API from Hyperliquid — 1 operation(s) for info.
  humanURL: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api
  baseURL: https://api.hyperliquid.xyz
  tags:
  - Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hyperliquid-info-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hyperliquid-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hyperliquid-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hyperliquid.xyz
- type: Foundation
  url: https://hyperfoundation.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex
- type: App
  url: https://app.hyperliquid.xyz
- type: Stats
  url: https://stats.hyperliquid.xyz
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/HyperliquidX
- type: Discord
  url: https://discord.gg/hyperliquid
integrations:
- name: HyperEVM
- name: USDC
- name: Arbitrum (deposits)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com