Autopilot Overview
Autopilot is Zirodelta's non-custodial delta-neutral automation system. It opens and manages both legs of a delta-neutral trade on your behalf 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Without ever holding your funds.
What Autopilot does
A delta-neutral trade has two legs that must be executed simultaneously:
A short perpetual futures position
A long spot position in the same asset
Both positions must be equal in notional size. If price moves up, the short perp loses and the spot gains. They cancel. If price moves down, the short perp gains and the spot loses. They cancel again. Net price exposure = zero.
What remains after price risk is removed is the funding rate payment. Every hour, the long side of the market pays the short side (in positive funding environments). You receive that payment continuously.
Autopilot handles all of this automatically:
Opens both legs simultaneously at the right sizes
Monitors the position continuously
Closes both legs cleanly when you instruct it to (or when an automation rule triggers)
Rebalances if needed as the position drifts
How Autopilot works technically
When you activate Autopilot, you sign one on-chain transaction: approveAgent. This transaction. Stored on Hyperliquid L1. Tells the protocol that Zirodelta's backend address is authorized to submit orders from your account.
From that point forward, Zirodelta's backend can place and cancel orders on your behalf without you needing to be online. Your funds never leave your Hyperliquid account. The agent wallet has signing authority only. It cannot withdraw, transfer, or access your collateral in any way not related to order management.
Note: You can revoke the agent wallet at any time by signing
revokeAgentin the app settings. This immediately removes Autopilot's ability to act on your account.
What is currently live
Positive funding path (live): Short perp + long spot. Earns when the perpetual trades above spot and longs pay shorts. Available to Pro subscribers today.
Negative funding path (coming with Lending Vault): Long perp + short spot. Earns when the perpetual trades below spot and shorts pay longs. Short spot requires borrowing the underlying asset, which requires the HyperEVM Lending Vault. This path is blocked until the vault launches.
Warning: If you attempt to open a negative-funding delta-neutral trade, the backend will return an error. This restriction will be lifted when the Lending Vault launches on HyperEVM.
Who should use Autopilot
Autopilot is designed for two types of users:
Active traders who want a passive income stream alongside directional positions. Run Autopilot on a high Farm Score market in one window while trading directionally in another. The Autopilot position earns funding in the background without requiring attention.
Users who want funding rate yield without managing positions manually. Set it up, let it run, monitor the portfolio dashboard weekly. Autopilot handles everything else.
If you want even less friction, see Zidee Wallet. A mobile-first PWA where Autopilot runs in the background — Privy login, ZDLT-tier-gated, no order book in sight.
Subscription requirement
Autopilot requires a Pro subscription: $10 USDC per 30-day period, paid on-chain. See Pro Subscription for payment instructions.
Key documents
Agent Wallet. How the approval mechanism works and what Zirodelta can and cannot do
Delta-Neutral Explained. The mechanics, the risks, and what "no liquidation risk" actually means
Pro Subscription. How to pay and what you unlock
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