How Aureous works

No. Every balance is pretend, nothing is sent to Hyperliquid, and you never connect a wallet. There's nothing to deposit and nothing to win or lose.

Live from Hyperliquid's public market data: mark prices, order books, candles and funding rates. They're the same numbers you'd see on Hyperliquid itself, give or take a second or two.

Market orders fill against the real order book at that moment, level by level, so bigger orders get a worse average price, as they would on the real exchange. Like Hyperliquid, a market order won't fill more than 5% away from the mark price. If the book is too thin, you get a partial fill.

Limit orders that would cross the book fill immediately as taker orders. Otherwise they rest and fill at your price once the market reaches it. Post-only orders that would cross are rejected.

Hyperliquid's base rates: 0.045% of the order's value when you take liquidity (market orders and crossing limits), and 0.015% when you provide it (resting limit orders).

All positions share one balance (cross margin). Leverage is set per market, up to that market's maximum, and decides how much margin a position ties up: a $5,000 position at 10x uses $500. Higher leverage leaves more of your balance free, but it doesn't change your profit or loss per dollar of position.

Each market has a maintenance margin of half its initial margin at maximum leverage. For a 40x market that's 1.25% of the position's value. If your account's equity falls below the total maintenance margin of your positions, every position is closed at the mark price. The Positions tab shows the price where that would happen, if there is one.

Every hour, one side of each market pays the other to keep the perpetual's price close to the underlying asset. When the rate is positive, longs pay shorts; when it's negative, shorts pay longs. Aureous uses Hyperliquid's actual hourly rates, so holding a position for days can cost or earn real (paper) money.

Yes. The Aureous server checks every account once a minute and fills any take-profits, stop-losses and limit orders that have been reached, settles funding and handles liquidations. Because the check runs once a minute, a fast move can fill a stop at a worse price than you set, much like a real market gapping through it.

Everyone starts with $10,000. Accounts are ranked by current value: cash balance plus the profit or loss of open positions at the mark price. The board refreshes every 20 seconds or so. Choose the name others see from the account menu; your email is never shown.

Yes. Click any name on the leaderboard to open their profile: account value, best value, win rate, badges, open positions and their last 50 trades. Profit and loss on open positions updates live. Traders can hide their positions and trades from the account menu; their summary and badges stay visible.

Badges mark account-value milestones. Each is named after a Roman coin:

• Sestertius at $20,000
• Denarius at $50,000
• Aureus at $100,000
• Solidus at $250,000
• Imperium at $1,000,000

Account value includes open positions, so a badge counts the moment your value crosses the line. The server checks at least once a minute and whenever you trade. Badges are permanent, even after a reset. Your account panel shows a progress bar towards the next one.

Every new badge puts you in the spotlight for 7 days: your row on the leaderboard is highlighted, and you're listed under recent milestones.

Some unlocks are permanent:

• Reaching Denarius ($50,000) unlocks the Aureus gold accent colour in settings.
• Reaching Aureus ($100,000) turns your name gold on the leaderboard.

Unlocks are cosmetic, so they never change how trades are filled.

Yes. "Reset account" closes everything, clears your history and puts your account back to $10,000. Your leaderboard position starts over from there. Badges you've earned stay, and your profile shows how many times you've reset.

Open the account menu (your name, top right) and choose Delete account. After you confirm it's you, your trading data is removed from the Aureous server and your login is deleted.

Yes. The gear icon in the app opens settings for a light or dark theme, accent colour, price colours (including a colour-blind option and red-for-up), a more compact layout, order confirmations, and whether to show the order book. Settings are saved in your browser.

Yes. The layout stacks on small screens, and your account follows you once you're signed in.

• Resting limit orders fill completely once the price reaches them; your place in the queue isn't modelled.
• Liquidation closes positions at the mark price, with no liquidation fee or partial liquidation.
• There's no isolated margin, no fee discounts and no builder-deployed markets.
• Orders you place yourself are filled at once; orders that wait for a price are checked once a minute.

No. Aureous is a practice tool. Results with paper money don't predict results with real money, where emotions, liquidity and risk all behave differently.