Hyperliquid Bridge: How to Bridge to Hyperliquid + the Best Bridge by Chain (2026)

1. How to bridge to Hyperliquid, step by step

Bridging to Hyperliquid means moving USDC (or a coin) into your HyperCore account, the balance you trade from. The steps are the same whichever bridge you use. The example below is Relay from Arbitrum; Across works the same way.

1. Open Hyperliquid and connect your wallet. Go to app.hyperliquid.xyz, click Connect and pick the wallet that holds your funds (MetaMask, Rabby, Phantom’s EVM address, or email login). Do this first, through a referral link, so the fee discount is on the account before any money arrives: open Hyperliquid with code HOLYGRAIL (4% off your first $25M of volume).
2. Check where your money is. Native USDC on Arbitrum One needs no third-party bridge: click Deposit, enter the amount and sign. Circle’s CCTP credits it for a flat 0.20 USDC; our guide shows how to deposit USDC on Arbitrum to Hyperliquid screen by screen. On an exchange, withdraw on the Hyperliquid network instead. Anything else (Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Solana, USDT) goes through steps 3–6.
3. Open the bridge and set the route. Open relay.link/bridge/hyperliquid or app.across.to (EVM chains only; from Solana, use Relay) and connect the same wallet. Under Sell or From, pick your chain and token. Under Buy or To, pick USDC on Hyperliquid, not HyperEVM; HyperEVM is the smart-contract side and is not trading margin.
4. Enter the amount and read the quote. Send at least 5 USDC (below that, deposits can be lost) and test with a small amount first. Check three lines before you sign: what you receive, the fee and the estimated time.
5. Approve and confirm. The first time, your wallet asks for two signatures: a token approval, then the bridge transaction. Keep a little of the source chain’s gas token (ETH on Arbitrum, Ethereum or Base; SOL on Solana).
6. Check that it arrived. In Hyperliquid, open Portfolio or the Balances table. USDC from Relay’s Perps route, Across, Mayan’s perps option or the Deposit button sits in Perps and is ready to trade. If it shows under Spot, transfer Spot → Perps. Nothing after a few minutes? Look the transaction up on relay.link/transactions or across.to/transfers before you do anything else, and never send it again.

What bridging 1,000 USDC to Hyperliquid cost on October 15, 2026

We asked each bridge’s public quote API for the same transfer, 1,000 USDC into the Hyperliquid Perps balance, within two minutes on October 15, 2026 (06:56–06:58 UTC):

Sources: Relay quote API and relay.link; Across Swap API (/swap/approval); Circle’s CCTP fee API for the Deposit button. Times count from the moment the source-chain transaction confirms. These are snapshots: quotes change by the hour, and the quote you see before you sign is the final word. A brand-new Hyperliquid address can also pay a one-time 1 USDC activation fee.

At that moment Relay was the cheapest route out of Arbitrum, cheaper even than the official button, and every USDC route cost less than a quarter of a dollar per 1,000 USDC. The bridge is a one-off cost of cents. Fees on your trades recur, which is why the referral discount in step 1 matters more than which bridge you pick. New to the venue itself? Our Hyperliquid review covers fees, markets and risks before you fund it.

2. Best bridge for Hyperliquid by where your money is

Hyperliquid runs on its own layer-1, so "bridging to Hyperliquid" really means getting USDC (or a coin) into your HyperCore account, the balance you trade from. No single bridge is best for everyone. The best one is the shortest trip from where your funds sit right now:

Two rules cover most cases. First, fewer hops are better: an exchange that withdraws directly to Hyperliquid beats any bridge on cost and on the number of things that can go wrong. Second, when you do need a bridge, get two quotes (or let Jumper get them). On the same route, the gap between two quotes is often bigger than either fee, and it changes by the hour.

3. Hyperliquid bridges compared: 10 routes side by side

This table compares the named bridges and routes people actually use. It covers how each one works, where it can start, where the money lands, and what it costs according to each bridge’s own documentation on October 15, 2026. Speeds marked as a claim are the bridge’s own figure.

Sources, all read on October 15, 2026: Hyperliquid docs and info API (usdcRouting: deposits and withdrawals via CCTP); Circle’s CCTP fee API; docs.across.to, Across’s Swap API and its Arbitrum→Hyperliquid guide; docs.relay.link (Hyperliquid support, fees) and Relay’s quote API; docs.debridge.com (fee structure) and deBridge’s Hyperliquid guide; docs.mayan.finance (Hyperliquid); the LI.FI and LayerZero transfer APIs; docs.hyperunit.xyz; Arbitrum docs. Bridge fees are quoted live before you sign, so the quote is the final word.

4. Each Hyperliquid bridge in detail

Hyperliquid’s own Deposit button (the “native bridge”)

Best for: USDC already on Arbitrum. Fee: 0.20 USDC flat plus Arbitrum gas. Speed: minutes.

This is the official route. Hyperliquid’s docs now call the original Arbitrum bridge contract deprecated: CCTP is "the preferred method for minting USDC natively on the Hyperliquid L1". Hyperliquid’s info API reported deposits and withdrawals both routed through CCTP on October 15, 2026. Circle burns your USDC on Arbitrum, mints it on HyperEVM, and a forwarder credits your HyperCore balance for a flat 0.20 USDC, deducted from the amount (10 USDC arrives as 9.80). You need native USDC on Arbitrum One (contract 0xaf88d065e77c8cC2239327C5EDb3A432268e5831, not USDC.e) and a few cents of ETH for gas. Email-login accounts also get a deposit address that accepts USDC on Arbitrum, Ethereum, Base and Polygon, handled by Across. The click-by-click walk-through with screenshots is in our Hyperliquid deposit guide.

Across

Best for: speed from Arbitrum and other EVM chains. Fee: a relayer fee plus a small LP fee, quoted before you confirm. Speed: about 1 second in Across’s own quote API on October 15, 2026 (about 2 seconds, per its blog).

Across is an intent bridge. You deposit on the source chain, a relayer fronts the funds on HyperEVM, and they are credited to your HyperCore account automatically. If your address has no HyperCore account yet, Across creates one during the transfer. On October 15, 2026 its quote API charged 0.105 USDC on 1,000 USDC from Arbitrum, Ethereum or Base, landing 999.89 USDC in Perps. Its docs list sponsored routes with zero bridge fee, currently USDT/USDT0 into HyperCore USDC from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Monad, Polygon and Unichain; they "change over time". Read the quote anyway: 1,000 USDT (USDT0) from Arbitrum came out as 998.77 USDC the same day, 0.123% less, mostly the gap between the USDT and USDC prices. Across also runs the email-login deposit flow inside the Hyperliquid app, and you can look up those transfers at across.to/transfers. Link: app.across.to.

Relay

Best for: cheap same-token USDC moves from almost any chain, and withdrawals back out. Fee: $0.02 execution fee plus destination gas, and a 0.00% platform fee on same-token bridges (0.01% on stablecoin swaps). Speed: seconds.

Live quotes can come in below the published fees. On October 15, 2026, Relay quoted no relayer fee at all from Arbitrum (1,000 USDC in, 1,000.00 USDC out, $0.004 of gas), 0.12 USDC from Ethereum or Base and 0.245 USDC from Solana, each about 1 second. Relay’s docs list Hyperliquid (HyperCore) as a destination for Perps USDC directly, plus spot USDC, USDH and other spot tokens, and HyperEVM as a separate chain. It also supports withdrawals from Hyperliquid to any Relay chain. One pass-through cost to know: a brand-new HyperCore address pays a one-time 1 USDC activation fee on its first incoming transfer. That is Hyperliquid’s rule, not Relay’s, and any route that creates the account can pass it on. Link: relay.link/bridge/hyperliquid.

deBridge

Best for: any token from Solana or an EVM chain in one step. Fee: 4 bps protocol fee plus a solver margin of about 4 bps, plus a small flat fee in the source chain’s gas token. Speed: seconds, per deBridge.

deBridge runs a solver network with no liquidity pools. Pick “Hyperliquid” as the destination and, per deBridge, it delivers native Arbitrum USDC into your Hyperliquid account. It is one of the few routes that takes USDC or SOL on Solana and lands in your trading account in a single transaction. deBridge also supports HyperEVM (chain 999) as a separate destination. Link: app.debridge.finance.

Mayan

Best for: Solana → HyperCore. Fee: quoted per swap. Speed: as little as 6 seconds, per Mayan.

Mayan’s Swift v2 swaps from any supported token on Solana or an EVM chain into USDC on HyperCore. You choose the spot or the perps balance, so the money can arrive as trading margin directly. Only USDC is supported on the HyperCore side, and Mayan also handles withdrawals from HyperCore back to EVM chains. Link: swap.mayan.finance.

Jumper (LI.FI)

Best for: comparing routes when you are not sure which bridge is cheapest. Fee: the underlying bridge’s fee plus any aggregator fee, all shown in the quote. Speed: depends on the route it picks.

Jumper is the consumer app on top of the LI.FI API. On October 15, 2026, LI.FI listed 69 chains, including Hyperliquid (HyperCore) and HyperEVM as two separate destinations. Its bridge list includes Across, Relay, Mayan, CCTP, Unit, Stargate, Eco and Hyperliquid’s native bridge. That makes it a good price checker, but select “Hyperliquid” and not “HyperEVM” if you want to trade. Link: jumper.exchange.

Stargate (LayerZero)

Best for: LayerZero tokens such as USDT0 and USDe, and HyperEVM DeFi. Fee: quoted per transfer. Speed: depends on the route.

Hyperliquid’s docs list Stargate for bridging to HyperEVM, including a direct USDe route, and the USDT0 app for USDT0. LayerZero’s transfer API listed 102 chains on October 15, 2026, with HyperEVM and HyperCore as separate entries. Use it when the asset you hold is a LayerZero token or when you want to use HyperEVM apps. If you land on HyperEVM, section 6 explains how to get the funds into your trading balance. Link: stargate.finance.

Canonical Arbitrum bridge

Best for: a conservative Ethereum → Arbitrum hop before the Deposit button. Fee: Ethereum gas. Speed: 15–30 minutes in, at least 7 days back to Ethereum (Arbitrum docs).

This is not Hyperliquid’s bridge. It is Arbitrum’s rollup bridge, and it only gets you as far as Arbitrum One. It is slower than any intent bridge but relies only on Arbitrum itself. Fine for a one-way trip. Link: bridge.arbitrum.io.

Others: Eco, Symbiosis, Squid, Synapse, Router Nitro

Eco (Eco Portal / Eco Routes) is a stablecoin-routing service. It ranks itself first in its own “best way to bridge to Hyperliquid” guide, and it is also one of the bridges LI.FI routes through, so you can compare it without trusting either list. Symbiosis and Squid route to HyperEVM. Synapse and Router Nitro appear on Hyperliquid’s own list of bridges for getting USDC onto Arbitrum. All of them work. None beats the routes above on a like-for-like quote unless the quote says so, so treat them as extra quotes.

5. The Hyperunit bridge: BTC, ETH, SOL and other coins

When the Hyperliquid Deposit window shows a Bitcoin, Ethereum or Solana address, that address comes from Hyperunit (Unit). Unit calls itself "the asset tokenization layer on Hyperliquid". It lets you deposit supported coins from your wallet or exchange straight to Hyperliquid, trade them on the spot order book, and withdraw them to their native chains. It is the right bridge when you want to arrive with coins rather than USDC.

How the Hyperunit bridge works

• Permanent deposit address. In the Deposit window (or at app.hyperunit.xyz), pick the asset. Unit’s Guardian network generates a unique address that is permanently tied to your Hyperliquid address, and you can verify it by the Guardians’ signatures.
• Guardians and MPC. Independent operators (Unit, Hyperliquid and Infinite Field at launch) each run the protocol and their own chain indexers. They sign with a 2-of-3 multi-party threshold scheme, so no single Guardian can move funds.
• Unit tokens. Once the source transaction is final (for Bitcoin, 2 confirmations), the same amount is credited to your spot balance as a HIP-1 token: UBTC, UETH, USOL and so on. To trade perps, sell it for USDC (0.070% spot taker at the base tier) and move the USDC to Perps.
• Fees. Unit says it "does not collect revenue from deposits or withdrawals". You pay only the network fees of the source and destination transactions, and the Deposit window shows the live estimate. Unit’s fee API estimated, on October 15, 2026: about 0.000024 BTC and 31 min for a Bitcoin deposit, 0.00054 ETH and 3 min for Ethereum, 0.0127 SOL and 1 min for Solana.
• Withdrawals. Choose Withdraw, pick the coin and paste a native-chain address. After the Hyperliquid transaction finalizes (about 10 seconds, per Unit), the Guardians broadcast the transfer on the native chain.
• Compliance. Unit screens addresses against sanctions lists, and its app geoblocks restricted regions. It is not a mixer, and its explorer is public.

Supported assets and minimums

Minimums: docs.hyperunit.xyz supported assets and the Hyperliquid support FAQ (ENA, ANSEM), read October 15, 2026. Below the minimum, a deposit is not processed and the support FAQ says the funds are lost. Arrival times are from the Hyperliquid support FAQ. The Deposit window shows the live estimate.

The revert tool

If a deposit fails, Unit’s Revert UI (app.hyperunit.xyz/revert) can return some mistakes to a wallet you control. Examples: USDC, USDT or wrapped SOL sent to the Solana address, or USDC, USDT or WETH sent to the Ethereum address. A revert has to wait for a set number of source-chain confirmations (about 3 days for Ethereum and Solana, per Unit), costs a small fee, and is not guaranteed. Unsupported tokens outside the revert list, or the right coin sent on the wrong chain, generally cannot be recovered; ETH sent on Arbitrum to the Ethereum address is the one listed exception.

6. HyperCore vs HyperEVM: where your funds land, and how to bridge to HyperEVM

Hyperliquid is one chain with two parts that share the same state and consensus. HyperCore holds the order books, your Perps and Spot balances and your margin. HyperEVM (chain ID 999) is an Ethereum-compatible smart-contract layer for DeFi apps. USDC on HyperEVM is an ERC-20 in your wallet. It is not trading margin until you move it.

• Land on HyperCore if you want to trade perps or spot: the Deposit button, CEX withdrawals on the Hyperliquid network, Across, Relay (Perps USDC), Mayan (perps or spot) and deBridge’s Hyperliquid route.
• Land on HyperEVM if you want HyperEVM lending, LP or other apps: Relay, Across, Stargate, Symbiosis, deBridge or LI.FI with “HyperEVM” selected, or CCTP to HyperEVM (no HyperCore forwarding fee).

How to bridge to HyperEVM from Ethereum or Arbitrum

Bridge to HyperEVM when you want HyperEVM apps: lending, liquidity pools, HYPE staking protocols. Hyperliquid’s own docs list Stargate, deBridge, Gas.zip, Jumper and, per asset, the USDT0 app, Garden (BTC) and Mintify (ETH). Relay and Across also deliver native USDC there. Which route fits depends on the token you hold:

On October 15, 2026, moving 1,000 USDC from Ethereum or Arbitrum to HyperEVM cost 0.125 USDC on Relay (about 2 seconds) and 0.102 USDC on Across, in each bridge’s own quote API. The steps:

1. Add the network to your wallet: chain ID 999, RPC https://rpc.hyperliquid.xyz/evm (or one click on chainlist.org/chain/999).
2. In the bridge, choose your source chain and token, then HyperEVM as the destination. This is the one case where you do not pick “Hyperliquid”.
3. Read the quote, approve and confirm. Relay and Across fill in seconds; check the arrival in your wallet on HyperEVM or on hyperevmscan.io.
4. Get a little HYPE for gas, because every HyperEVM transaction pays in HYPE. Bridge some with Gas.zip, or buy HYPE on Hyperliquid Spot and use Transfer to/from EVM.
5. To trade with the funds later, move them to HyperCore with the steps below.

How to move funds from HyperEVM to HyperCore (and back)

1. Add HyperEVM to your wallet (chain ID 999, RPC https://rpc.hyperliquid.xyz/evm) so you can see the balance.
2. Keep a little HYPE on HyperEVM for gas. If you have none, buy HYPE on Spot and move it to the EVM first.
3. In the Hyperliquid app, open the Balances table and click Transfer to/from EVM (or EVM ↔ Core Transfer on the Portfolio page). Choose the token and direction.
4. The token arrives in Spot on HyperCore. For USDC, then transfer Spot → Perps to use it as margin.

Do not do this by hand-sending tokens to a system address unless you know the exact address for that token. Hyperliquid’s docs warn that 0x2222…2222 works only for HYPE; other assets sent there are lost. The app button does it for you. If you pressed Transfer to/from EVM by accident, your funds are not lost. They are on HyperEVM, and the same button brings them back.

7. Bridging from Solana

Solana is where most money gets lost, because the Deposit window shows one Solana address and it is the wrong one for USDC.

• USDC on Solana → a bridge. Hyperliquid’s support docs say it plainly: "Depositing USDC on Solana will fail and not be credited." Use Mayan, deBridge or Relay with Hyperliquid as the destination, or a CCTP transfer (Circle charged a forwarding fee of about 0.24 USDC to HyperCore from Solana on October 15, 2026, plus a 1 bps fast-transfer fee if you choose fast mode). Relay quoted 0.245 USDC on 1,000 USDC the same day, about 1 second once the Solana transaction confirms.
• SOL and listed Solana tokens → the Hyperunit address. It accepts SOL, 2Z, ANSEM, BONK, FARTCOIN, PUMP and SPX only, with minimums (for example 0.12 SOL). The coins arrive in about 1 minute into your spot balance.
• Phantom users: Phantom is one of the interfaces Hyperliquid lists for onboarding. The rule is the same inside any wallet: a USDC transfer to Hyperliquid must go through a bridge route, not the Solana deposit address.

8. From an exchange, Ethereum, Base or Polygon

From a centralized exchange. Hyperliquid’s docs note that "many CEXs and bridges support withdrawals on Hyperliquid, either via HyperCore or HyperEVM". If your exchange lists the Hyperliquid network for USDC, withdraw to the address in your Deposit window. Check whether the network label means HyperCore or HyperEVM, because a HyperEVM withdrawal lands outside your trading balance. If the exchange does not list Hyperliquid, withdraw USDC on Arbitrum One (not Arbitrum Nova) to your own wallet and use the Deposit button. We do not quote per-exchange withdrawal fees because they change often. Read the fee on the withdrawal screen.

From Ethereum, Base or Polygon. You have three good options. Bridge straight to HyperCore with Across or Relay. Log in to Hyperliquid by email and send USDC to the multi-chain deposit address (Arbitrum, Ethereum, Base or Polygon, handled by Across). Or use CCTP. On Ethereum mainnet, gas is the biggest cost, often more than any bridge fee, so move a meaningful amount in one go instead of several small ones. The email-address flow has two safety valves. Wrong tokens are redirected to your email wallet within about 10 minutes, and so are deposits below 5 USDC. Deposits below 1 USDC are lost.

Card or bank. The Deposit window also links a fiat on-ramp run by Swapped.com, an independent provider. Its fees and support are Swapped’s, not Hyperliquid’s.

9. What bridging to Hyperliquid costs, by source chain

CCTP fees: Circle’s fee API for transfers to HyperCore, read October 15, 2026 (Arbitrum is a flat fee; other chains vary slightly with HyperEVM gas). Bridge fees: each bridge’s docs. Every route to a brand-new Hyperliquid address may add the one-time 1 USDC account-activation fee. Hyperliquid itself charges nothing to deposit.

Worked example: you hold 500 USDC on Arbitrum. Through the Deposit button, 499.80 USDC arrives on HyperCore, plus a few cents of ETH for gas. Through an intent bridge, you pay the quoted relayer fee instead, in exchange for a faster fill. Either way the bridge is a one-off cost. Trading fees recur: opening and closing a single $10,000 position at the base taker rate costs $9.00, many times the Deposit fee. For active traders the fee tier and the referral discount matter more than which bridge they used.

So before the first deposit lands, open Hyperliquid through our HOLYGRAIL referral link: the 4% discount covers your first $25M of volume, whichever bridge brought the money in.

10. What Reddit recommends, and our take

11. Mistakes that lose funds

• USDC on Solana to the Solana deposit address. Not credited. Try Unit’s revert tool (USDC, USDT, WSOL only).
• Wrong network or token. Arbitrum Nova, BNB Chain or Optimism USDC, or USDC.e / USDT / DAI into the Deposit button, are not credited. Wrong coins sent to Hyperunit addresses may be unrecoverable.
• USDC to a Hyperunit coin address. The Ethereum address takes only ETH and ENA, and the Base address takes only VIRTUAL. USDC sent to either is not credited (Ethereum USDC is on the revert list; Base USDC is not). Stablecoins go through the Deposit button, the email-login USDC address or a bridge.
• Deposits under the minimum. Under 5 USDC is lost on the wallet route. Hyperunit coins have their own minimums (section 5).
• Landing on HyperEVM when you wanted to trade. Not lost. Use Transfer to/from EVM (section 6).
• Fake sites and "support" DMs. Bookmark app.hyperliquid.xyz and each bridge’s official URL. Hyperliquid never asks you to send funds to an address in a message.
• Resending while a transfer is pending. Check the source-chain explorer or the bridge’s transfer history first. A second send doubles the problem.

Test once with a little more than the minimum (for example 6 USDC), then send the rest. Deposit problems and fixes are covered step by step in the deposit guide.

12. Bridging out of Hyperliquid

To bridge back out, click Withdraw at the bottom right of the trade page, not Send, which only moves funds between Hyperliquid addresses. Hyperliquid’s USDC withdrawal goes to Arbitrum through Circle’s CCTP (via the HyperEVM) for a flat 0.2 USDC plus a tiny HyperEVM gas fee in HYPE, and the app says it arrives within 5 minutes. You sign once and need no ETH on Arbitrum. Hyperliquid’s info API reported deposits and withdrawals both routed through CCTP on October 15, 2026; the legacy Arbitrum bridge, which charged $1, is deprecated. Coins go back to their native chains through Hyperunit, paying network fees only. To land USDC on another chain in one step, Relay, Across and Mayan all support withdrawals from HyperCore; Across notes that refunds on that route land on HyperEVM. Screens, fees and the CEX route are in our guide on how to withdraw from Hyperliquid to Arbitrum, an exchange or another chain.

13. After you arrive: fees and referral

However your funds arrived, the fee schedule is the same: 0.045% taker / 0.015% maker on perps at the base tier. It falls with 14-day volume and with HYPE staking; the full breakdown is in Hyperliquid fees explained. Trading, cancelling and funding cost no gas. Join through a referral link before your first trade and you pay 4% less on your first $25M of volume. Ours is HOLYGRAIL. New to the interface? Start with how to trade on Hyperliquid or rehearse on the testnet, whose faucet unlocks after a real deposit from your address. For how Hyperliquid compares with other venues, see our Hyperliquid review.

FAQ

Disclosure: HOLYGRAIL is our referral code; we earn a share of referred accounts’ fees. We have no affiliate relationship with any bridge named here. Deposit rules, minimums and fees come from Hyperliquid’s, Circle’s, Unit’s and Arbitrum’s documentation and from each bridge’s own docs and APIs, read on October 15, 2026. Speeds marked as a claim are the bridge’s own figures. TVL figures are DefiLlama snapshots from that date.