# Deploy

> Documentation for Deploy.Finance: self-custody wallets and autonomous trading agents (Income: Funding Rates and Superstar).

> Full content bundle: https://docs.deploy.finance/llms-full.txt

## Introduction

- [Welcome to Deploy Finance](https://docs.deploy.finance/): Deploy Finance runs curated autonomous AI trading agents you fund in USDC and run from your own self-custodial wallet.

## Getting started

- [What is Deploy Finance?](https://docs.deploy.finance/what-is-deploy-finance): A platform for autonomous AI trading agents funded in USDC and run from self-custodial wallets, built on execution infrastructure live since 2018.
- [Why use Deploy Finance?](https://docs.deploy.finance/why-use-deploy-finance): Six reasons: self-custody, institutional execution, yield sourced from market structure, verifiable performance, and low costs.
- [What are Deploy Finance agents?](https://docs.deploy.finance/what-are-deploy-finance-agents): An agent is an autonomous, curated trading strategy that runs from your wallet through scoped, revocable session keys.
- [Deploy Finance Wallets](https://docs.deploy.finance/deploy-finance-wallets): Deploy Finance wallets are non-custodial, generated at sign-in through Privy, with exportable keys and no seed phrase to memorize.
- [Our thesis](https://docs.deploy.finance/our-thesis): Three convictions behind Deploy Finance: yield from market structure, custody without compromise, and strategy without operator expertise.
- [Glossary](https://docs.deploy.finance/glossary): Definitions of the wallet, trading, and product terms used across Deploy Finance documentation.

## Guides

- [Start here](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides): Task-based guides for setting up, using, monitoring, and securing Deploy Finance agents.
- [How to create a wallet](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/quick-starts/create-wallet): Create a Deploy Finance embedded, self-custodial wallet with email or Google sign-in.
- [How to fund a wallet](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/quick-starts/fund-wallet): Deposit USDC to your Deploy Finance Funding Wallet from a card or an external wallet.
- [How to launch an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/quick-starts/launch-agent): Allocate USDC, choose a live agent, and approve its scoped trading permission.
- [How to manage your first week](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/quick-starts/first-week): A practical checklist for reviewing a new Deploy Finance agent allocation.
- [How-to guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to): Step-by-step instructions for common Deploy Finance wallet and agent tasks.
- [How to deposit USDC](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/deposit-usdc): Send USDC from an external wallet to the Arbitrum address shown in Deploy Finance.
- [How to buy USDC by card](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/buy-usdc-card): Use the Deploy Finance deposit flow to buy USDC with a Visa or Mastercard.
- [How to delegate an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/delegate-agent): Approve the scoped session-key permission that lets a selected agent trade.
- [How to revoke an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/revoke-agent): Remove an agent's delegated trading permission from the Deploy Finance dashboard.
- [How to withdraw funds](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/withdraw-funds): Move funds to your Funding Wallet and withdraw USDC to an external Arbitrum address.
- [How to export your keys](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/export-keys): Export your Funding Wallet private key and move it to a third-party wallet.
- [How to recover a wrong-chain deposit](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/recover-wrong-chain): Recover assets sent to your Deploy Finance address on the wrong chain by exporting the wallet and bridging manually.
- [How to move funds between agents](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/move-funds): Move capital from one agent to another through the Funding Wallet.
- [How to enable two-factor authentication](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/how-to/enable-2fa): Enable the Manage 2FA control in the Deploy Finance sidebar.
- [Agents guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/agents): Choose an agent, an allocation, and an approach that matches your objective and risk tolerance.
- [How to choose an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/agents/choose-agent): Compare Income: Funding Rates and Superstar by objective, stance, minimum, and return source.
- [How to choose an allocation](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/agents/choose-allocation): Set an allocation that leaves room for your liquidity needs and the selected agent's minimum.
- [How to decide whether an agent fits](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/agents/when-not-use): Situations where Deploy Finance agents may not fit your liquidity, control, or risk requirements.
- [How to choose a market stance](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/agents/choosing-agents): Compare the market-neutral Income: Funding Rates strategy with the directional Superstar strategy.
- [Tips & tricks guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips): Practical habits for safer deposits, clearer permissions, monitoring, key handling, and withdrawals.
- [How to avoid deposit mistakes](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips/avoid-deposit-mistakes): Checks to make before sending USDC to your Deploy Finance Funding Wallet.
- [How to review delegation permissions](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips/review-permissions): Use the permission preview to confirm exactly what an agent can do before delegation.
- [How to monitor an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips/monitor-agent): Review balances, activity, and performance without manually intervening in each trade.
- [How to secure an exported key](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips/secure-key-export): Protect the private key after exporting a Deploy Finance Funding Wallet.
- [How to plan a withdrawal](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/tips/withdrawals): Prepare a withdrawal by checking wallet location, address, chain, and execution conditions.
- [Troubleshooting guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting): Diagnose common wallet, deposit, delegation, agent, withdrawal, and sign-in issues.
- [How to troubleshoot a missing USDC deposit](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/deposit-not-appearing): Checks for a USDC transfer that has not appeared in the Deploy Finance Funding Wallet.
- [How to troubleshoot a wrong chain or asset](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/wrong-chain-asset): Identify and recover an asset sent to your Deploy Finance address on an unsupported chain or token route.
- [How to troubleshoot a pending delegation](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/delegation-pending): Check a delegation transaction and permissions when an agent has not activated.
- [How to troubleshoot agent deployment](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/agent-not-deployed): Understand why an approved agent may wait before entering a strategy.
- [How to troubleshoot a pending withdrawal](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/withdrawal-pending): Check wallet location, transaction status, and network details when a withdrawal has not arrived.
- [How to troubleshoot sign-in access](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/troubleshooting/sign-in-access): Recover from common email, Google sign-in, 2FA, and wallet-access problems.
- [Concept guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts): Plain-language explanations of wallets, permissions, funding-rate yield, backtests, and fees.
- [How to understand session-key permissions](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/self-custody-session-keys): Understand the difference between your wallet key and the scoped key delegated to an agent.
- [How to distinguish wallet types](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/funding-agent-wallet): Learn where deposits, permissions, and trading balances live in Deploy Finance.
- [How to understand agent permissions](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/agent-cannot-withdraw): See how scoped permissions let an agent trade while keeping transfers and withdrawals under your control.
- [How to understand funding-rate yield](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/funding-rate-yield): Understand how Income: Funding Rates uses offsetting spot and perpetual positions.
- [How to read a backtest](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/backtests): Understand what Superstar simulated performance shows and what it does not show.
- [How to understand fees](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/concepts/fees): Separate Deploy Finance's subscription pricing from blockchain, bridge, and trade costs.
- [Safety guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/safety): Protect account access, recognize phishing, and understand the risks before using an agent.
- [How to secure your account](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/safety/secure-account): Use 2FA, protect sign-in credentials, and keep wallet access under your control.
- [How to recognize phishing](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/safety/phishing): Identify requests for private keys, verification codes, or unsafe transactions.
- [How to understand allocation risks](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/safety/understand-risks): Review strategy, platform, custody, venue, and execution risks before funding an agent.
- [Lifecycle guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/lifecycle): Follow capital from deposit through allocation, monitoring, strategy exit, and withdrawal.
- [How to move from deposit to withdrawal](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/lifecycle/deposit-to-withdrawal): Follow a complete Deploy Finance agent lifecycle from USDC deposit to external withdrawal.
- [How to stop and exit an agent](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/lifecycle/stop-exit-agent): Revoke an agent's permission, move its balance back to the Funding Wallet, and withdraw if needed.
- [How to change an allocation](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/lifecycle/changing-allocation): Adjust an agent allocation by exiting to the Funding Wallet and deploying a new amount.
- [MCP and AI-assistant guides](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp): Use Deploy Finance's MCP tools to learn, fund, monitor, exit, and withdraw with explicit signing.
- [How to ask an AI assistant](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp/ask-ai): Use read-only MCP tools to understand Deploy Finance, browse live agents, and simulate yield.
- [How to fund through MCP](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp/fund-through-mcp): Deposit USDC on Arbitrum or request a quoted multi-asset deposit through MCP.
- [How to delegate through MCP](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp/delegate-through-mcp): Allocate USDC to an agent in chat, then approve the transaction in the Deploy web app.
- [How to check and exit through MCP](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp/check-exit-mcp): View a portfolio, exit an agent, and withdraw idle USDC through MCP.
- [How to approve MCP transactions](https://docs.deploy.finance/guides/mcp/signing-permissions-mcp): Understand what MCP can read, what it can request, and where you approve transactions.

## Agents

- [How to get started](https://docs.deploy.finance/how-to-get-started): Six steps from email sign-in to a running agent, plus how to withdraw and how to export your keys.
- [How to choose?](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/how-to-choose): Compare Income: Funding Rates and Superstar across objective, stance, minimums, and evidence, or split funds across both.
- [Fees](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/fees): Deploy Finance charges no subscription or upfront fee. You still pay blockchain gas and exchange trade fees.
- [Execution](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/execution): Where agent orders reach the market: Hyperliquid as primary exchange, Arbitrum as the deposit path, and the whitelisted protocol set.

## Funding Rate Agent

- [Overview](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/overview): Income: Funding Rates earns yield from perpetual funding spreads without taking directional exposure to price.
- [What is delta neutral?](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/what-is-a-delta-neutral-portfolio): Delta neutral describes a portfolio whose long and short positions offset each other's price movements, leaving funding as the yield.
- [Who is it for?](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/who-is-it-for): Income: Funding Rates suits holders of idle USDC who want a structurally sourced yield without taking a directional view on price.
- [How it works](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/how-it-works): What the Income: Funding Rates agent does after you deploy: a 75/25 spot and perpetual split, continuous rebalancing, and USDC funding accrual.
- [Risks](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/risks): Risks specific to Income: Funding Rates: funding rate, spot-perpetual spread, volatility, liquidity, margin, rebalancing, and depeg.
- [FAQ](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/income-funding-rates/faq): Common questions about Income: Funding Rates: minimums, how yield is paid, negative funding, assets traded, and running it alongside Superstar.

## Superstar Agent

- [Overview](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/superstar/overview): Superstar (formerly Super Perps) is an autonomous directional agent that trades spot, perpetuals, and HIP-3 markets, with selective outcome-market positions. It goes long, short, or flat and sizes every position from a fixed loss budget.
- [How it works](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/superstar/how-it-works): Every four hours Superstar reads eighteen market inputs, argues both sides, and commits to long, short, or no trade.
- [Who is it for?](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/superstar/who-is-it-for): Superstar suits capital that wants handled directional crypto exposure, judged over a cycle, with at least $10,000 to deploy.
- [Risks](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/superstar/risks): Risks specific to Superstar: directional market, leverage, model and signal, execution, stop-loss, and performance-evidence risk.
- [FAQ](https://docs.deploy.finance/products/agents/superstar/faq): Common questions about Superstar: the minimum, assets traded, trade frequency, whether returns are live, and how it differs from the income agent.

## MCP

- [MCP Integration](https://docs.deploy.finance/mcp): Deploy exposes an MCP server so any AI agent can deposit USDC, delegate to trading strategies, track yield, and withdraw. Funds stay non-custodial.
- [What you can do](https://docs.deploy.finance/mcp/learn): The read-only MCP tools: ask what Deploy is, how yield works, browse agents, and simulate returns. No sign-in required.
- [Fund your wallet](https://docs.deploy.finance/mcp/fund): Deposit USDC on Arbitrum directly, or send any supported asset from about 13 chains. Everything auto-converts to USDC.
- [Earn, track, exit](https://docs.deploy.finance/mcp/agents): Delegate USDC to a trading agent, monitor your portfolio, exit a position, and withdraw to an external wallet on Arbitrum.
- [Tools reference](https://docs.deploy.finance/mcp/tools): Full reference for every MCP tool exposed by Deploy: name, auth requirement, parameters, and what it returns.

## FAQ & Risks

- [FAQ](https://docs.deploy.finance/faq): Common questions about Deploy Finance: sign-up, minimums, costs, custody, agents, and performance qualifiers.
- [Risks](https://docs.deploy.finance/risks): Platform-wide risks for Deploy Finance agents and the security controls in place.

## Alternatives

- [Deploy Finance, a self-custodial and onchain alternative to Ethena](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/alternatives/deploy-finance-ethena): Compare Deploy Finance's self-custodial autonomous trading agents with Ethena's synthetic dollar, savings, and reserve products.
- [Deploy Finance: a curated DeFi alternative to 3Commas](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/alternatives/deploy-finance-3commas): Compare 3Commas' configurable trading tools with Deploy Finance's curated, self-custodial DeFi agents.
- [Deploy Finance vs GMX: direct perpetual trading and autonomous strategies](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/alternatives/deploy-finance-gmx): Compare GMX direct perpetual trading and liquidity products with Deploy Finance's autonomous DeFi agents.
- [Deploy Finance vs Solstice: funding-based yield and tokenized yield strategies](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/alternatives/deploy-finance-solstice): Compare Solstice's USX and YieldVault products with Deploy Finance's self-custodial autonomous agents.

## Resources

- [Legal & disclaimers](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/legal-and-disclaimers): This documentation is informational. Projections are estimates, nothing here is investment advice, and past performance does not predict future results.
- [Terms of service](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/terms-of-service): Terms of Service for Deploy Finance, last revised January 2026, governing access to the website, App, and Services.
- [Privacy policy](https://docs.deploy.finance/resources/privacy-policy): Privacy Policy for Deploy Finance, last revised January 2026, covering what information is collected and how it is used.

## Contact

- [Contact & links](https://docs.deploy.finance/contact): Where to find Deploy Finance: app, website, blog, social channels, institutional contact, and the MCP integration.