Safety and risks

What protects your account, what we cannot protect you from, and what to do if something looks wrong.

Updated Nov 3, 2026 2 min read

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What protects your money

Non-custodial. Your funds stay on your Hyperliquid account and we have no withdrawal rights.
Trade-only key. The key can place and cancel orders and nothing else, and we refuse a main wallet key.
Encrypted at rest. Your key is stored encrypted and not shown again.
Your own limits. You choose how much of the balance works, and you can pause, protect or close everything at any moment.
Keeps running. Tarvis runs on our servers, so a dropped connection on your side does not affect trading.

Risk	What it means
Market risk	A strategy can lose for weeks or months. Falls deeper than any on record can happen.
Leverage and liquidation	With leverage, a sharp move can close positions by force at a loss.
Backtest vs live	Backtests are hypothetical. Real fills, fees and funding differ.
Exchange risk	Your funds are on Hyperliquid, so an outage or failure there affects you. Tarvis cannot prevent that.
Stablecoin and network risk	USDC and the Arbitrum network have risks of their own.
Technical risk	Software and connections can fail. We build for it, but cannot rule it out.
Account compromise	Someone with your Tarvis login could change your settings or stop your trading. They could not withdraw.

Turn on two-factor authentication

Settings → Security. It takes a minute.
Use a unique password

Do not share one with other services.
Keep your seed phrase to yourself

Nobody from Tarvis will ever ask for it, or for your main wallet's private key.
Check the address

Sign in only at tarvis.trade, and be careful with links from messages.

Stop new trading

Use Pause new trades or Close everything now on Positions.
Cut the key if you suspect a leak

On Hyperliquid, open More → API and remove the agent wallet. Tarvis loses access at once.
Tell us

Write to us with the account and the time. Include no keys or seed phrases.