Hyperliquid is not available in the United States. The app.hyperliquid.xyz front end blocks U.S. IP addresses, the terms of use name U.S. persons as restricted, and the same terms forbid VPNs, proxies and false statements about residency. The layer-1 underneath does not check IP addresses, and the API will answer a request from anywhere, but a response is not permission: using the protocol from the U.S. breaches the terms you accepted, and there is no one to appeal to if a wallet is later flagged.
That may change. On August 19, 2026, President Trump said the CFTC, under Chair Mike Selig, was working to bring Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant and legal fashion, and HYPE jumped on the news. Reporting since has described talks with Kraken's parent, Payward, and a rule-writing process that could take most of a year. No U.S. entity, KYC design, product list or approval has been announced, and the same weeks brought reports of more than $30 million in Lazarus Group-linked flows through the platform, which will not make the regulators' job easier.
For a U.S. searcher today the practical answer is to separate the two things you might want. If you want on-chain leverage, CFTC-regulated perpetuals for eligible U.S. customers now exist at supervised venues, and that is the compliant route. If you want to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum or USDC and hold it in a wallet you control, Anytime Capital does that from Atlanta and Miami, with cash, wire, ACH, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards, a phone number at (470) 748-2530, and a free non-custodial wallet where the coins stay yours.