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How to Start on Nado (2026): Ink and USDT0 Guide
Mechanics verified against official Nado docs on 2026-09-30.
Perpetual futures are leveraged instruments: your margin can be lost quickly, and on Nado a large enough loss elsewhere on the platform can, in an extreme case, be shared across USDT0 balances. Read the risk disclosure and the review first. Nado's Terms of Use restrict the United States, Canada, the Republic of Panama, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and comprehensively sanctioned countries, and prohibit using a VPN to get around them. If that is you, stop here — this guide does not cover access workarounds.
Create an account
Select "Connect Wallet", then sign in with email, Google or X, which "creates an embedded crypto wallet tied to your account", or connect a wallet such as MetaMask. Season 2 removed invite codes: "anyone can connect a wallet, create an account, and start trading."
Fund the account
With cash, pick card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on the "Use Cash" tab; each has a $114k limit, and a first cash deposit runs a one-time check by Fun.xyz asking for your name and date of birth. With crypto, the "Use Crypto" tab gives a deposit address for the chain you pick, from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BSC, Solana, Tron, Bitcoin, HyperEVM or Ink. "Withdraw on a different network than the one shown and the funds can be lost." Trading collateral is USDT0 by default.
Choose unified or isolated margin
Unified cross-margin is the default and nets spot, perps and borrowing in one health score. In this mode the leverage slider only sizes orders; margin comes from each market's risk weights. Isolated margin, for perps only, ring-fences one position's collateral. You can open up to four subaccounts in the app; transfers between them cost 1 USDT0, or 0.1 USDT0 if either side is isolated.
Place an order
Market, limit, stop-market, stop-limit, TWAP, take-profit/stop-loss and scaled orders are available. Stops, TP/SL and TWAP are trigger orders watched by Nado's trigger service, which submits a child order when the condition is met; price triggers can follow the oracle, last or mid price. Fees start at 3.5 bps taker and 1 bp maker; see the fees page.
Watch health, then withdraw
When maintenance health falls below zero the subaccount can be liquidated by any liquidator. A withdrawal costs 1 USDT0 (0.0006 wETH or 0.00004 kBTC) and can take up to about 30 minutes in congestion; a fast withdrawal adds 1 USDT0 plus the greater of 5 USDT0 or 10 bps. Avoid the maintenance windows, Mondays and Thursdays at 22:30 UTC.
FAQ
Do I need KYC?
Not for a wallet or social login. The card route runs through Fun.xyz, which may require "basic KYC".
Can I deposit ETH?
"Native ETH is not directly supported for deposits into trading positions"; on Ink it pays gas. Wrap or swap it first.
Can I use tokenized stocks as collateral?
Yes. SPYx and QQQx count at 80% of their value for opening positions and 90% for maintenance.
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