How far back does Hyperliquid historical data go?

Hyperliquid's own API serves the last 5,000 candles of a market and no old trades. 0xArchive has recorded Hyperliquid perpetual trades and the order book since 15 April 2023, funding since May 2023, spot trades since March 2025 and HIP-3 trades since October 2025. A symbol listed later starts later.

Do I need my own 0xArchive key?

Yes. The connector reads OXARCHIVE_API_KEY from your environment and calls 0xArchive from your machine. The key travels in a header and never appears in an error message. Manifold-BT never sees your data.

Can I test it for free?

Yes, on the last 30 days. 0xArchive's free plan serves every market over that window, which is enough to check the data shape and run a strategy. The full history needs a paid 0xArchive plan.

What order book depth do I get?

On Hyperliquid, perps, spot and HIP-3, 0xArchive records 20 levels per side, and that is what the connector stores. On Lighter it records the whole book, and you keep up to 500 levels per side.

Does it cover HIP-3 markets?

Yes. Name the market as deployer, then ticker: xyz/XYZ100. 0xArchive's own spelling, xyz:XYZ100, is accepted too and stored with the slash.

Can I backtest a strategy across Hyperliquid and Binance?

Yes. Each source writes into the same local store, and one strategy runs on both with the same mbt.run().

Data partner

Manifold-BT

Backtest Hyperliquid and Lighter on their full history

Hyperliquid’s own API stops at its last 5,000 candles. Through 0xArchive, Manifold-BT reads Hyperliquid’s trades and order book back to April 2023, and the history of its spot and HIP-3 markets and of Lighter, with your own key.

how far back each market goes on 0xArchive

Trades Order book Venue API alone

Hyperliquid API, 1h candleslast 5,000

Hyperliquid perps, tradesApr 2023

Hyperliquid perps, order bookApr 2023

Lighter, tradesJan 2025

Hyperliquid spot, tradesMar 2025

HIP-3, tradesOct 2025

Lighter, order bookJan 2026

HIP-3, order bookFeb 2026

Hyperliquid spot, order bookMay 2026

2023202420252026

Hyperliquid's own API keeps its last 5,000 candles and no old trades. 0xArchive started recording each market on a different day; a symbol listed later starts later. Up to 10 November 2026.

Apr 2023

Hyperliquid trades and order book since

2 venues

Hyperliquid perps, spot and HIP-3, and Lighter

1 ms

trade timestamps, with the aggressor's side

Your key

the data stays between you and 0xArchive

What the 0xArchive connector reads

Data	What you get	Limit
Bars	1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, 1d and 1w candles	From March 2025 on Hyperliquid, later on Lighter and HIP-3. 0xArchive serves no older candles
Funding	Hourly funding rates on every perpetual	Spot pairs pay none
Trades	Each trade 0xArchive recorded, stamped to the millisecond, with the aggressor's side	Whole UTC days, from the start date to the end date
Order book	Snapshots of both sides: 20 levels on Hyperliquid, the whole book on Lighter	Up to 500 levels kept on Lighter. A day with no recorded book stops with an error that names it

Hyperliquid backtest quickstart

The symbol picks the market. Your strategy stays the same.

BTC

Hyperliquid perpetual

HYPE-USDC

Hyperliquid spot pair

xyz/XYZ100

HIP-3 market, deployer then ticker

lighter/BTC

Lighter market

hyperliquid.py

# export OXARCHIVE_API_KEY=...
store = mbt.ingest(provider="0xarchive", symbol="BTC", symbol_id=1, interval="1h",
                   start="2025-06-01T00:00:00Z", end="2025-12-01T00:00:00Z")
mbt.ingest_trades("0xarchive", "BTC", 1, "2025-11-03", "2025-11-07")
mbt.ingest_book("0xarchive", "BTC", 1, "2025-11-03", "2025-11-07")

Checked against the live API

Before release, the connector was run against 0xArchive’s real API and against Hyperliquid’s own.

Bars match the venue

BTC 1h candles read through 0xArchive are identical to the ones Hyperliquid's own API serves: open, high, low, close, volume and timestamps.

Trades add up to the candle

One day of BTC trades, 327,914 of them, matches that day's candle in count and in volume.

Trades sit inside the book

Over ten minutes of BTC, every trade printed within the prices of the book snapshots just before and after it.

Every market runs end to end

A perp, a spot pair, a HIP-3 market and a Lighter market each go from ingestion to a strategy run.

What you need on each side

You subscribe to 0xArchive directly, with your own key. Nothing goes through Manifold-BT.

From	Plan	What it gives
0xArchive	Free	The most recent 30 days, enough to test the connector
0xArchive	Build, $49 a month	The full archive
0xArchive	Pro, $199 a month	The full archive, at 150 requests a second instead of 50
Manifold-BT	Pro	Bars and funding through the connector
Manifold-BT	Researcher	Trades and the order book, with the tick-level simulation

Create a key at 0xarchive.io, under API keys in the dashboard. 0xArchive prices are from their pricing page in November 2026. Manifold-BT plans are on our pricing page.

Use it from your AI agent

Connect your agent to the Manifold-BT MCP server. It reads the reference and writes a strategy that compiles, and you run the backtest on your own machine.

FAQ

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Run your first backtest

Install Manifold-BT and reproduce the backtest above in seconds. The Rust core runs years of bars sub-second so you can sweep parameters instead of waiting.

$pip install manifoldbt

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