How to Start Trading on GRVT (2026): Step by Step

"Each user is required to register both Web2 and Web3 credentials." The email, with a password or Google/Microsoft login, unlocks "non-trading features, such as participating in referrals, viewing portfolios, and checking positions". Trading needs the SecureKey, "Ethereum public/private key pairs, where only the user has access to the private keys", which signs "any action that could alter asset ownership". The sign-up flow connects the wallet, links the email, and asks for one signature that "does not send a transaction or move funds. It only verifies that the wallet belongs to you". If you would rather not manage keys, the Privy-secured SecureKey lets you "sign trades using email OTP"; the key is sharded inside a secure enclave and can be exported later. Identity verification, per the User Agreement, comes before the account is registered.

Two routes. The native GRVT bridge takes USDT from Ethereum, Arbitrum One or BNB Smart Chain through a connected wallet; you pay gas and no GRVT fee. The Rhino multichain bridge gives you a proxy address to send USDT to from "Arbitrum one, Base, BNB Smart Chain, Tron, KAIA, and Solana", and "the equivalent balance will appear in GRVT within approximately 5 minutes". Minimums are 1 USDT or USDC on Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain, 1 USDT on KAIA and Solana, 1 USDC on Base and 5 USDT on Tron; "deposits lower than the minimum amount will not be processed" and the funds are lost, and "if you deposit the wrong token via the wrong network, you could lose all your funds". Deposits land in the funding account.

"The purpose of the funding account is primarily fund management"; "trading accounts are used solely for trading derivatives", and you can run several "for different trading strategies, positions, and risk profiles". From the portfolio page, open Manage Trading Accounts, "select Create and enter the Trading Account name and choose the Margin type", and sign with the SecureKey. Cross margin risks the whole account; isolated margin confines a liquidation to one position. New accounts default to Multi-Asset Margin, which counts USDC as collateral and auto-borrows USDT at hourly interest when the USDT balance goes negative; Single-Asset Mode is the simpler USDT-only alternative.

Leverage is "a parameter that user sets per instrument", from 1x to 50x when no position is open, and the margin tiers cap what that setting can do: BTC and ETH allow 50x up to a $600,000 position and step down as size grows, alts allow 50x only up to $40,000, silver, platinum and palladium start at 25x, and single stocks such as TSLA and HOOD start at 10x up to $10,000. A July 2026 update lowered maximum leverage on several pairs without touching open positions. Order types include market, limit, scale, standalone take-profit and stop-loss, and reverse position; retail price-improvement orders exist for takers. Minimum order value is $5 on most instruments, $20 on ETH and $100 on BTC. Level 1 fees are −0.0001% maker and 0.045% taker — see the fees page.

Withdrawals go out from the funding account. Over the Rhino bridge to "Arbitrum one, Base, BNB Smart Chain, Tron, KAIA, and Solana" they take about 5 minutes and cost 1 USDT plus the bridge's gas; over Ethereum they take about 8 hours, "determined by how often GRVT rolls up transactions to Layer 1 Ethereum", and cost 2 USDT. There is no minimum withdrawal amount beyond covering the fee. Very large Ethereum withdrawals can enter a queue "with an enforced deadline of 2 hours" while reserves move back from the Yield Layer, and a new withdrawal address can be placed "under review" by the compliance process. If the insurance fund is in deficit, a socialised-loss haircut applies to every withdrawal until it recovers.