fix(hyperliquid): stop SDK init panic from crashing trader creation with 500

go-hyperliquid's NewExchange auto-fetches meta/spotMeta/perpDexs and
panics if any of those API calls fail (NewInfo: panic(err)). The quick
trade flow constructs a probe trader inside POST /api/traders, so any
transient Hyperliquid API hiccup crashed the request with a recovered
panic and a bare 500. Wrap the constructor in initExchangeClient, which
converts the panic into an error that surfaces through the existing
exchange-probe validation path as an honest, retryable message.

trader/hyperliquid/client_init.go

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package hyperliquid
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	hl "github.com/sonirico/go-hyperliquid"
+)
+
+// initExchangeClient runs the SDK exchange constructor and converts its
+// panic-on-failure behavior into an error. go-hyperliquid's NewExchange
+// auto-fetches meta/spotMeta/perpDexs when they are passed as nil and panics
+// if any of those API calls fail (NewInfo: panic(err)), so a transient
+// Hyperliquid API hiccup would otherwise crash the calling HTTP handler
+// with a 500.
+func initExchangeClient(build func() *hl.Exchange) (ex *hl.Exchange, err error) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			err = fmt.Errorf("hyperliquid client initialization failed: %v", r)
+		}
+	}()
+	return build(), nil
+}

trader/hyperliquid/client_init_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package hyperliquid
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	hl "github.com/sonirico/go-hyperliquid"
+)
+
+func TestInitExchangeClientConvertsPanicToError(t *testing.T) {
+	// The SDK constructor panics when its automatic meta fetch fails
+	// (go-hyperliquid info.go NewInfo: panic(err)). The wrapper must turn
+	// that into an error instead of crashing the HTTP handler.
+	_, err := initExchangeClient(func() *hl.Exchange {
+		panic(errors.New("failed to fetch meta: API error 0: "))
+	})
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected error when the SDK constructor panics, got nil")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "failed to fetch meta") {
+		t.Errorf("error should carry the panic cause, got %q", err.Error())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestInitExchangeClientPassesThroughSuccess(t *testing.T) {
+	want := &hl.Exchange{}
+	got, err := initExchangeClient(func() *hl.Exchange {
+		return want
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got != want {
+		t.Fatal("wrapper must return the constructed exchange unchanged")
+	}
+}

trader/hyperliquid/trader.go

@@ -143,16 +143,23 @@ func NewHyperliquidTrader(privateKeyHex string, walletAddr string, testnet bool,
 	// v0.36 fixed the spot-meta indexing panic that crashed earlier versions
 	// when Hyperliquid added new spot tokens whose Tokens[0] index pointed
 	// past the Tokens array end.
-	exchange := hyperliquid.NewExchange(
-		ctx,
-		privateKey,
-		apiURL,
-		nil,        // Meta — fetched automatically
-		"",         // vault address (empty for personal account)
-		walletAddr, // wallet address
-		nil,        // SpotMeta — fetched automatically
-		nil,        // perpDexs — fetched automatically
-	)
+	// The constructor still panics if any auto-fetch fails, so it runs inside
+	// initExchangeClient which converts the panic into a returned error.
+	exchange, err := initExchangeClient(func() *hyperliquid.Exchange {
+		return hyperliquid.NewExchange(
+			ctx,
+			privateKey,
+			apiURL,
+			nil,        // Meta — fetched automatically
+			"",         // vault address (empty for personal account)
+			walletAddr, // wallet address
+			nil,        // SpotMeta — fetched automatically
+			nil,        // perpDexs — fetched automatically
+		)
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Hyperliquid API is temporarily unavailable, please retry: %w", err)
+	}
 
 	logger.Infof("✓ Hyperliquid trader initialized successfully (testnet=%v, wallet=%s)", testnet, walletAddr)