HyperLiquid Testnet: testing Autoview before you trade live
HyperLiquid Testnet is a separate blockchain network, not a simulated balance on top of the real one. Getting started with HyperLiquid connects your live wallet; this page walks through Testnet specifically, including the one step that catches people who haven't done this before: getting funded there in the first place.
Testnet needs its own funded wallet, separate from live. There's no toggle that turns your live HyperLiquid balance into play money. You fund a wallet with testnet USDC from HyperLiquid's own faucet, and that balance only ever exists on the testnet network.
1. Get testnet funds from the faucet
Open the HyperLiquid Testnet faucet and connect the wallet you want to trade with. It grants 1,000 mock USDC per claim.
One requirement trips people up: the faucet only pays out to a wallet address that has previously made a deposit on HyperLiquid's live mainnet. If you've never funded a live HyperLiquid account with that address, connect the same wallet to the live app and make a deposit first, then come back to the faucet.
If you log into HyperLiquid with email instead of a wallet extension, this step needs one extra move: HyperLiquid's login provider generates a different address for testnet than it does for mainnet, so the mainnet-deposit requirement can't be satisfied automatically. Export your mainnet wallet's key and import it into a browser-extension wallet like Rabby or MetaMask, then connect that same wallet on both networks. A wallet connected through a browser extension keeps one address across mainnet and testnet, so this only matters for email-based logins.
2. Generate a Testnet API wallet
HyperLiquid signs trades with a wallet private key, not a key-and-secret pair, and that's true on Testnet too. Open the Testnet API page (note the -testnet in the URL, distinct from the live API page), connect your funded testnet wallet, and generate a dedicated API wallet rather than using your main key directly. You'll get two values, the same shape as the live connection:
- Secret Key: the API wallet's private key. Shown once. Copy it immediately.
- Public Address: your main testnet wallet's
0xaddress, the one holding the faucet funds. Not the API wallet's own address.
The same 180-day expiry applies here as on live HyperLiquid: check the Valid Until date next to the wallet on the API page, and regenerate it when that date arrives.
3. Connect HyperLiquid Testnet in Autoview
HyperLiquid Testnet isn't a promoted card in Autoview's setup picker today. Connect it directly at /account/credentials/hyperliquid_testnet/create/, paste the Secret Key and Public Address from step 2, and pick an execution zone. It costs nothing to run.
Create a webhook the same way you would for any exchange, and link it to your HyperLiquid Testnet credentials specifically. An alert that lands on a webhook linked to a different exchange's credentials won't reach this connection.
4. Send a test command
Because HYPERLIQUIDTESTNET runs the identical order-placement code live HyperLiquid uses, every command you'd write for live works here unchanged: the same e=, s=, b=, t=, and q= tokens, the same bare-asset perp symbols (BTC, ETH, SOL) and BASE/QUOTE spot pairs (PURR/USDC), and the same stop-loss/take-profit trigger orders. See the getting-started guide for the full symbol-format rules and the syntax reference for every parameter.
e=HYPERLIQUIDTESTNET s=BTC b=buy q=0.01 t=market d=1d=1 dry-runs the command: Autoview resolves it and reports what it would have done without sending it. Drop d=1 once the side, symbol, and size look right, and confirm the fill lands in your testnet account, not your live one.
A note on what Autoview is. Autoview is an execution tool, not a trading or investment advisor. It places the orders your script and alerts tell it to; it doesn't generate signals or make any claim about results. See our disclosures.