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# Fund your account

Three ways to get money in: buy with a card, receive crypto you already own, or move USDC onto Hyperliquid for perps.

Open **Deposit** from the portfolio or the header balance.

## Buy with Apple Pay or card

Fastest if you are starting from nothing. Checkout runs through Coinbase and arrives as USDC on Solana in your Midas wallet. Minimum **$5**, maximum **$2,500** per purchase.

## Receive crypto

Send to your Solana or EVM address under **Deposit → Receive Crypto**. USDC is the smoothest thing to arrive with, since that is what trades and perp margin are denominated in — anything else you can swap once it lands.

The network warning worth reading twice is in [Connect your wallet](https://github.com/stsssol/stss/tree/main/docs/connect-wallet/README.md).

## Fund your perps balance

Perps settle on Hyperliquid, which holds its own cash balance. **Deposit → Deposit to Hyperliquid cash** moves USDC across.

You rarely need to do this by hand — opening a perp that needs more margin than your Hyperliquid balance holds moves the shortfall for you, and shows the amount before you confirm. It works in reverse too: a spot buy beyond your wallet USDC can draw on your Hyperliquid collateral.

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**Wallet cash and Hyperliquid cash are different balances**

USDC on Hyperliquid backs perp positions; USDC in your wallet is what spot buys spend. Moving between them is a real transfer, not a display toggle.
{% endhint %}

## What you should see

Your total updates once the deposit confirms — seconds on Solana, longer on EVM chains. USDC shows per chain, so you can tell where your cash actually sits.

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**Deposit not showing?**

Check the transaction on the sending side — unconfirmed, or sent on the wrong network, is the usual cause.
{% endhint %}

Next: [make your first trade](https://github.com/stsssol/stss/tree/main/docs/spot-trading/README.md).


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