What taker is

taker is a trading terminal for perpetual futures on Hyperliquid. You type what you want in plain language, the app prices it exactly, and you confirm:

long 5x eth, $2k, stop at 1800

A conventional terminal — chart, order book, order ticket, positions blotter — sits alongside the chat and is a first-class surface, not a fallback. Use whichever is faster for the trade in front of you. Both share one execution path, so a position opened by chat closes from the blotter and vice versa.

What makes it different

It reads intent, not commands. There is no syntax to memorise. “close half my eth”, “twap 20k of btc over 2 hours” and “cancel all my orders” are all things you can simply say.

It sizes by risk. “risk $200 with a stop at 1800” means the position is chosen so that being stopped out costs $200 — not that the position is $200. That is what traders actually mean, and almost no exchange UI does it. See Risk sizing.

It cannot move your money. taker holds a delegated trading key that can open and close positions and nothing else. It cannot withdraw, cannot transfer to another account, and never sees your seed phrase or main private key. That is a property of the key itself, not a promise about our code — see What taker cannot do.

It is not an advisor. taker reports what a market is doing, what your positions are worth and what an order would cost. It will not tell you what to buy, predict a price, or rank opportunities. That line is deliberate and does not move.

Status

taker currently runs against Hyperliquid testnet. Balances and trades are test funds, not real money. Mainnet is next.

While on testnet

Everything here describes how the product works today. When mainnet arrives the only difference is that the money is real — the flows, limits and controls are identical, which is the point of testing them first.

Where to start

• New here? Connect a wallet takes about two minutes.
• Want the safety model first? What taker cannot do.
• Curious how a sentence becomes an order? How it works.