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how to bridge usdc to hyperliquid

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To Hypercore Perps

what is hyperliquid?

Hypercore is Hyperliquid's exchange layer, where the spot and perps order books and your trading balances live. When people talk about trading on Hyperliquid, they mean Hypercore. It holds two balances per account: a spot balance for spot markets and a perps balance that margins perpetual positions.

HyperEVM is Hyperliquid's EVM-compatible layer. It runs Solidity contracts and standard wallets, and it is where defi apps on Hyperliquid are built. Assets like uBTC, the Bitcoin representation on Hyperliquid, live here. Garden supports HyperEVM as a separate destination.

The spot balance holds assets for spot trading. The perps balance holds USDC used as margin for perpetual positions. Hyperliquid's unified account setting can merge these into one working balance, while manual mode keeps them separate for traders who want risk isolation. Garden bridges directly into either, so your USDC lands where you trade regardless of your account mode.

USDC is the settlement currency of Hypercore. Perps are margined in it and spot pairs quote against it, so getting USDC into the right balance is the first step of trading on Hyperliquid.

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how does garden work

Garden uses Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs) and an intents-based solver network to enable atomic cross-chain swaps.

no wrapping

You receive your asset directly without derivatives or wrapped tokens.

trustless & secure

Either both sides of the swap complete, or your asset is refunded.

optimal routing

Solvers fill your swap request at the best execution path across liquidity sources.

frequently asked questions

Hyperliquid is the blockchain. Hypercore is its exchange layer, where the spot and perps order books and your trading balances live. HyperEVM is its EVM-compatible layer, where smart contracts and DeFi apps run. When you bridge with Garden, you choose the exact destination: Hypercore spot, Hypercore perps, or HyperEVM. We cover it in more detail in our guide to bridging into Hyperliquid perps.

Yes. Garden supports native BTC straight from the Bitcoin blockchain into USDC on Hyperliquid, landing in your spot or perps balance. No wrapping and no exchange hop in between. Here is how BTC to HyperEVM works, and here is the full picture on depositing into perps.

Garden settles swaps through HTLCs with a solver network. You pick the destination, HyperEVM, Hypercore spot, or Hypercore perps, a solver locks the destination asset there while you lock on the source chain, and the trade settles fully onchain. Garden is currently one of the only bridges that delivers directly into the Hypercore perps balance. If you want the mechanics, our explainer on what atomic swaps are covers it in plain language.

From EVM chains like Ethereum or Base, most swaps complete within a few seconds. Swaps starting from the Bitcoin blockchain take around 10 minutes, since they wait on one Bitcoin confirmation.

You can bridge out of Hyperliquid spot or perps on Garden in a single click to any of the supported chains. Select USDC on Hyperliquid as the send asset and any supported asset on any supported chain as the receive asset in the Garden app, including moving your perps USDC back to native BTC.