Funding your vault

Engine trades from a treasury vault you fund directly. Money flows from your wallet straight to a third-party exchange. Engine isn't in the middle.

Getting funded

Sign in to Engine and you'll be issued a fresh embedded wallet tied to your account. We never have access to the keys for this wallet. It's yours.

From there, fund your wallet in the way that works best for you: buy with a card, connect an exchange account like Coinbase, or send funds directly from one of the supported chains. Engine will route you through the available options and show the balance in your vault once the funds arrive.

If you're sending from another wallet, make sure you choose a supported chain and asset before transferring. Deposits usually appear within a few minutes, depending on the route and network conditions.

The minimum

$50 USDC. Live trading stays in setup mode below that. Once you're above the minimum, you can top up any time and the agent will scale into the new balance automatically.

Withdrawing

You can find the withdraw option on the treasury balance card in the Engine interface. Pause the agent if you want it to stop opening new positions while you move funds, then withdraw to your wallet from your treasury vault directly. Your funds will land into your entered EVM wallet on Arbitrum.

Open positions aren't closed by a withdrawal; withdrawals come out of free margin. Close them yourself at Hyperliquid first if you need the margin freed up.

A note on safety

Your private keys are the single most important thing in this whole system. We will never ask for them. No support flow we run will ever require your seed phrase. If anyone claiming to be Engine asks, they aren't.

Where to next

Once you're funded, head to Selecting a strategy to bring the agent online.