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Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 5

up to 400 BNB in token vouchers (≈ $293,000 at the 731.97 USDT BNB price on Binance on 14 Oct 2026)Prize pool

2026-10-14 → 2026-10-2157% elapsed · Ends in 3 days

Eligibility: Not available in the EEA; verified new, regular and VIP 1–6 users only; Spot Liquidity Provider Program members and Binance Brokers excluded

Format

Spot trading-volume tournament on NEAR/USDC and OPEN/USDT, 14 Oct 2026 10:00 UTC – 21 Oct 2026 10:00 UTC; registration via the landing page's Join Now button; min 500 USD volume. Main pool 320 BNB: 1st 12, 2nd 10, 3rd 8, 4th 6, 5th 4 BNB; 6–20 split 40; 21–50 split 40; 51–200 split 64; 201–1,000 split 56; remaining participants a proportional share of 80 BNB capped at 0.05 BNB per user. Sprint pool 40 BNB over two rounds (14–16 Oct and 16–18 Oct), top 5 per round 6/5/4/3/2 BNB. New User Reward: equal split of 40 BNB (capped at 0.02 BNB per user) for users who register and complete KYC during the period and trade 500 USD. Vouchers distributed by 4 Nov 2026, expire 21 days later.

Official page ↗

Announced by Binance on 14 Oct 2026 as Season 5 of the Spot Trading Tournament series, starting two days before Season 4 (9–16 Oct 2026, same 400 BNB pool) ends. The pool is denominated in BNB; the USD figure is our conversion at the BNBUSDT price read on Binance's public API on 14 Oct 2026, not Binance's wording. Unlike Season 4, the 400 BNB is split 320 Main + 40 Sprint + 40 New User. Found in Binance's Latest Activities announcement index on 14 Oct 2026.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: binance.com

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Binance

Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 6

$2.30MPrize poolup to 2,300,000 FF (Falcon Finance) in token vouchers (≈ $263,000 at the 0.11415 USDT FF price on Binance on 15 Oct 2026)

2026-10-15 → 2026-10-2243% elapsed · Ends in 4 days

Eligibility: Not available in the EEA; verified new, regular and VIP 1–6 users only; Spot Liquidity Provider Program members and Binance Brokers excluded

Format

Spot trading-volume tournament on SUI/USDC and FF/USDT, 15 Oct 2026 10:00 UTC – 22 Oct 2026 10:00 UTC; registration via the landing page's Join Now button; min 500 USD volume. Main pool 1,840,000 FF: 1st 69,000, 2nd 57,500, 3rd 46,000, 4th 34,500, 5th 23,000 FF; 6–20 split 230,000; 21–50 split 230,000; 51–200 split 368,000; 201–1,000 split 322,000; remaining participants a proportional share of 460,000 FF capped at 350 FF per user. Sprint pool 460,000 FF over two rounds (15–17 Oct and 17–19 Oct), top 5 per round 69,000/57,500/46,000/34,500/23,000 FF. Vouchers distributed by 5 Nov 2026, expire 21 days later.

Official page ↗

Announced by Binance on 15 Oct 2026 as Season 6 of the Spot Trading Tournament series, overlapping Seasons 4 (9–16 Oct) and 5 (14–21 Oct). Unlike Seasons 4–5 (400 BNB each), the pool is denominated in FF (Falcon Finance) token vouchers; the USD figure is our conversion at the FFUSDT price read on Binance's public API on 15 Oct 2026, not Binance's wording, and will move with the FF price. Binance updated the announcement on 15 Oct 2026 to add the 350 FF per-user cap on the proportional share. Found in Binance's Latest Activities announcement index on 15 Oct 2026.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: binance.com

Live nowZZoomex

Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026 (ZWTC 2026)

$5MPrize poolup to 5,000,000 USDT (Zoomex wording: "a record prize pool of up to 5 Million USDT"; split Team/Squad up to 2,500,000, Solo/Individual up to 1,000,000, Rewards Zone/Lucky Draw up to 1,500,000; the activity page shows 0 USDT unlocked as of 3 Oct 2026)

2026-09-01 → 2026-10-2882% elapsed · Ends in 10 days

Participants: 3,509 participants (activity page counter "3,509 / 4,000", as of 2026-10-18)

Format

Phases on Zoomex's activity page: captain registration 1–21 Sep; squad warm-up 9–14 Sep; squad competition 21 Sep – 11 Oct; individual competition 13–28 Oct; lucky draw 9 Sep – 28 Oct (2026). Three areas: Team Competition (team ROI, team trading-volume and most-popular-team leaderboards; captains eligible for a 20% share of team rewards); Solo Battle (AI trading battle, stock-contract profit leaderboard, perpetual-contract volume leaderboard, top 100 per category); Rewards Zone (lucky wheel, card collection, daily check-ins, missions and referrals, up to 10,000 USDT per user). Multi-asset: crypto perpetuals, stock contracts and AI-powered trading.

Official page ↗

Added 10 Sep 2026, the day Zoomex announced it; Zoomex calls the pool "the largest announced in ZWTC history". Dates are taken from Zoomex's own activity page, which starts captain registration on 1 Sep and ends the individual competition on 28 Oct 2026. On 11 Sep 2026 that page displayed the registration windows for the first time and they match Zoomex's 10 Sep 2026 press release, resolving the disagreement recorded on 10 Sep: squad early-bird registration 14–17 Sep, squad regular registration 17 Sep – 3 Oct (the release's "team registration 13 Sep – 3 Oct"), individual early-bird registration 10–13 Oct and individual regular registration 13–23 Oct (the release's "solo registration 10–23 Oct"), all 10:00 UTC. Full phase list on the page: captain registration 1–21 Sep; squad warm-up 9–14 Sep; squad official competition 21 Sep – 11 Oct; individual official competition 13–28 Oct; lucky draw 9 Sep – 28 Oct 2026. Headline is "up to": the page showed 0 USDT unlocked and 94 participants when checked on 11 Sep 2026. No restricted-region list is published on either source; the release says rewards are "subject to eligibility requirements, prize-pool activation conditions, and official campaign rules". Re-checked 16 Sep 2026 at ~17:20 UTC: the participant counter reads "1,459 Participants" (94 on 11 Sep, 328 on 15 Sep, 452 on 16 Sep morning — the counter tripled in the twelve hours after the 14 Sep opening of squad early-bird registration), and the "Current Prize Pool" still reads 0 USDT, so none of the "up to 5,000,000 USDT" has been unlocked with the squad competition still five days from its 21 Sep start. The page returns HTTP 403 to direct fetches and was read through a reader proxy. Re-checked 17 Sep 2026: the counter reads "1,499 Participants" (1,459 on 16 Sep evening — the surge that followed the 14 Sep squad early-bird opening has flattened) and "Current Prize Pool" still reads 0 USDT, so none of the "up to 5,000,000 USDT" is unlocked four days before the 21 Sep squad competition starts. No squad or team tally is published. Read through the reader proxy; direct fetches still return HTTP 403. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026 through the reader proxy: the counter reads "1,645 Participants" (1,499 on 17 Sep) and "Current Prize Pool" still reads 0 USDT, so none of the "up to 5,000,000 USDT" is unlocked two days before the squad official competition starts on 21 Sep. Squad early-bird registration closed on 17 Sep and squad regular registration now runs to 3 Oct; the full phase list on the page is unchanged. No squad or team tally is published. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026: the direct fetch returned HTTP 403 to the fetch tool (the page still answers 200 to a plain request from this server, but its counters are loaded client-side and are not present in the HTML), and the reader-proxy render returned the pre-hydration state with both "Participants" and "Current Prize Pool" reading 0. The 0 USDT pool matches what is recorded; the 0 participants is an unrendered value, not a reset, so the participant figure above is deliberately left at its 19 Sep 2026 reading rather than overwritten. Every phase date on the page is confirmed unchanged in that render: captain registration 1–21 Sep, squad early bird 14–17 Sep, squad regular 17 Sep – 3 Oct, squad warm-up 9–14 Sep, squad official competition 21 Sep – 11 Oct, individual early bird 10–13 Oct, individual regular 13–23 Oct, individual official competition 13–28 Oct and lucky draw 9 Sep – 28 Oct (all 10:00 UTC). Re-read 21 Sep 2026: the participant counter now reads 2,390 (1,645 on 19 Sep 2026) and the "Current Prize Pool" still reads 0 USDT — no milestone unlocked yet, the first tier being 4,000 participants for 300,000 USDT on the page's 4,000→100,000 participants / 300,000→5,000,000 USDT ladder. The squad (team) competition opened today: the page gives it as "9/21 10:00 - 10/11 10:00 UTC", with the individual competition "10/13 10:00 - 10/28 10:00 UTC" and the lucky draw "9/9 10:00 - 10/28 10:00 UTC" — all unchanged. Zoomex issued a GlobeNewswire release the same day, "ZWTC 2026 Enters Squad Stage as Zoomex Opens Registration for Competition With Up to 2.5 Million USDT in Prizes" (21 Sep 2026), which matches the squad pool and start date on the activity page. Re-read 3 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Timeout 60): the counter reads "3,300 / 4,000" participants ("Progress: 83%"; 3,205 on 2 Oct) and "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" still reads 0, with 300,000 USDT shown as the next tier at 4,000 participants. Squad regular registration closes today (3 Oct). Re-read 4 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser and X-No-Cache): the counter read "3,327 / 4,000" participants (3,300 on 3 Oct); three further renders the same evening loaded before the counter and showed "0 / 4,000", so 0 was not recorded. The unlocked pool was not captured in the render that showed the count, so the 3 Oct pool reading (0 USDT) is kept. Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser and X-No-Cache): three renders agreed on "3,330 / 4,000" participants (3,327 on 4 Oct), and the same render showed "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0 with 300,000 USDT as the next tier ("Progress: 83%"). Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Timeout): the counter read "3,343 / 4,000" participants (3,330 that morning), with "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0, 300,000 USDT as the next tier and "Progress: 84%". Re-read 6 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): three renders agreed on "3,349 / 4,000" participants (3,343 on 5 Oct evening), with "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0, 300,000 USDT as the next tier and "Progress: 84%". Re-read 7 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): two renders agreed on "3,363 / 4,000" participants (3,349 on 6 Oct), with "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0, 300,000 USDT as the next tier and "Progress: 84%". Re-read 7 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): two renders showed "3,367 / 4,000" participants (3,363 that morning), with "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0 and "Progress: 84%"; a third render loaded before the counter and showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): two renders agreed on "3,368 / 4,000" participants (3,367 on 7 Oct evening), "Progress: 84%", with 300,000 USDT shown as the next tier; two other renders loaded before the counter and showed 0, which was not recorded. No unlocked-pool figure was shown in these renders, so the earlier 0 USDT reading stands. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): one of six renders loaded the counters and showed "3,373 / 4,000" participants (3,368 that morning), "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0, "Next Tier Prize Pool" 300,000 and "Progress: 84%"; the other five loaded before the counter and showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 9 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout and X-No-Cache): one of two renders loaded the counters and showed "3,375 / 4,000" participants, "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" 0, "Next Tier Prize Pool" 300,000 and "Progress: 84%"; the other showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 9 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, same headers): two of three renders loaded the counters and showed "3,380 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 85%" and "620 USD in trading volume needed to unlock the next tier"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the third showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): two of three renders showed "3,383 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 85%" and "617 USD in trading volume needed to unlock the next tier"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the third render showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): one of two renders showed "3,392 / 4,000" participants; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the other render showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): one of three renders showed "3,397 / 4,000" participants; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the other renders showed 0, which was not recorded. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): one of three renders showed "3,409 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 85%" and "591 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the other two renders showed 0, which was not recorded. The squad competition window (21 Sep – 11 Oct 10:00 UTC) closed today; no squad results are published yet. Re-read 12 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): one of three renders showed "3,418 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 85%" and "582 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render; the other two renders showed 0, which was not recorded. No squad results published yet. Re-read 12 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): the first of three renders showed "3,422 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 86%" and "578 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier"; the other two renders returned nothing. No squad results published yet. Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): the first render showed "3,423 / 4,000" participants; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render. No squad results published yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): first render showed "3,438 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 86%" and "562 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier" (next tier 300,000 USDT); "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" showed 0. No squad results published yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): two renders both showed "3,442 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 86%" and "558 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier". No squad results published yet. Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): "3,443 / 4,000" participants and "557 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render. No squad results published yet. Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90): "3,456 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 86%" and "544 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier". No squad results published yet. Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90; two renders agreed): "3,493 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 87%"; the "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" value did not render. No squad results published yet. Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90; two renders agreed): "3,502 / 4,000" participants, "Progress: 88%" and "498 more participant(s) needed to unlock the next tier". No squad results published yet. Re-read 18 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser, X-Timeout: 90; two renders agreed): "3,509 / 4,000" participants; "Current Prize Pool (USDT)" not shown as unlocked. No squad results published yet.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: zoomex.com

Live nowLLTP (Liquidity Technologies)

Liquidity Arena 2026 (AI Quant Trading Championship)

$300KPrize poolmore than $300,000 in total prize value, including $100,000+ in cash prizes for the top three teams in each track

2026-09-09 → 2026-11-0470% elapsed · Ends in 17 days

Participants: 200+ registered teams; Track A Phase 1 executed more than 70,000 trades and 30 teams advanced (organizer, Sep 2026)
Eligibility: No competitor restrictions published; LTP operates across Hong Kong, Australia, the UAE and the British Virgin Islands

Format

Two tracks. Track A 'Logic Frontier' for AI developers, university teams and agent builders — autonomous agents judged on reasoning quality and decision consistency via MCP-based Reasoning Log verification, not profit alone; Phase 1 ran 20 Jul – 21 Aug 2026, transition 22 Aug – 6 Sep. Track B 'Liquidity Pro' for hedge funds, prop desks and HFT firms — scored on performance, capital capacity, execution quality and slippage control in live markets; Dual-track main competition 9 Sep – 4 Nov 2026, official results 15 Nov, closing ceremony end of Nov, per the timeline on arena.liquiditytech.com read 22 Sep 2026; LTP's 10 Jul 2026 event blog still gives the older 7 Sep – 31 Oct with results 14 Nov, and the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline from LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release is not repeated on either page. Non-cash share of the pool is AI agent credits, token incentives, LTP VIP tiers, clearing-fee rebates, sponsor products and career placement.

Official page ↗

Only $100,000+ of the '$300,000+' headline is cash; the rest is ecosystem value (credits, rebates, VIP tiers). Start date follows LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release ('dual-track main competition begins September 9'); LTP's own event blog dates Phase 2 from 7 Sep — the two organizer sources differ by two days. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026. arena.liquiditytech.com again served only its legal disclaimer through the reader proxy — no counters, dates or standings — so nothing was taken from it. LTP's own event blog is unchanged and still carries the figures in this row: "200+ registered teams", "$100,000+ in cash prizes distributed across top teams in both tracks" plus "$200,000+ in ecosystem value", Track A Phase 1 20 Jul – 21 Aug, Phase 2 opening 7 Sep, both tracks closing 31 Oct and results on 14 Nov 2026. No interim standings are published, and the blog does not repeat the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline recorded here from LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026 and nothing has changed on either source. arena.liquiditytech.com still serves only its legal disclaimer through the reader proxy — no counters, dates, prize figures or standings — so again nothing was taken from it. LTP's own event blog still reads "200+ registered teams", "$100,000+ in cash prizes distributed across top teams in both tracks" and "$200,000+ in ecosystem value", with Track A Phase 1 20 Jul – 21 Aug, the dual-track competition 7 Sep – 31 Oct and results on 14 Nov 2026, and publishes no interim standings or winners. The 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline recorded here still rests solely on LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release; the blog does not repeat it, and with the deadline three days away no organizer page confirms it. Re-checked 22 Sep 2026, and for the first time arena.liquiditytech.com served its real content to a direct fetch instead of the legal disclaimer that every earlier run got through the reader proxy. Its timeline reads: 15 Jun early-bird registration; 20 Jul Track A Phase 1 commences; 21 Aug Track A Phase 1 ends; 22 Aug – 8 Sep Track A environment transition & KYC; 9 Sep dual-track main competition begins; 4 Nov "Arena Closes! Competition Ends"; 15 Nov official results announcement; end of November closing ceremony. The end date in this row is therefore moved from 31 Oct to 4 Nov 2026 to follow the event's own page, the same source the 9 Sep start already follows; LTP's event blog (published 10 Jul 2026) still shows the older 7 Sep – 31 Oct with results on 14 Nov, so the two organizer sources remain four days apart at the close as they were two days apart at the start. The page headlines "Prize Pool $300,000+" with "$100,000+ Total Pool" in cash for the top three teams of each track, matching this row. It carries a "REGISTER NOW" button linking to a Google Form with no deadline shown, so the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline still rests solely on the 8 Sep press release and is now one day away without organizer-page confirmation — it has been dropped from the format field rather than restated. The page's live counters (Track A total trades, Track A total volume, Track B total AUM, Track B total P&L) all render 0, which contradicts the organizer's own "more than 70,000 trades" for Track A Phase 1 and is read as an unpopulated dashboard, not a reset; the participant figures above are left as published and were not overwritten. Re-read 25 Sep 2026 (~17:15 UTC): the arena homepage dashboard now renders live counters — Track A (Phase II: Mainnet Duel Finals) Total Trades 13.5K and Total Volume $702.9K; Track B (Liquidity Pro) Total AUM $16.2M and Top 10 P&L $1.7M — with both countdowns at 39 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end. Prize pool still shown as $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 1 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A (Phase II: Mainnet Duel Finals) Total Trades 17.6K and Total Volume $965.0K (13.5K / $702.9K on 25 Sep); Track B (Liquidity Pro) Total AUM $17.5M ($16.2M on 25 Sep) and Top 10 P&L $35.3K ($1.7M on 25 Sep — a running P&L figure, not a cumulative counter). A direct fetch in the same window showed the dashboard unhydrated at 0, as on 22 Sep. Both countdowns read 34 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 2 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 18.1K and Total Volume $995.0K; Track B Total AUM $17.3M and Top 10 P&L $35.7K; both countdowns 33 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 3 Oct 2026 (~05:30 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 18.8K and Total Volume $1.0M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M (down from $17.3M) and Top 10 P&L $43.4K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 3 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.0K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M and Top 10 P&L $45.0K; both countdowns 31 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 4 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.3K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M and Top 10 P&L $46.0K; both countdowns 31 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 4 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.5K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $48.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~05:25 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser; a plain proxy render served only the legal disclaimer): Track A Total Trades 19.8K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $49.8K; both countdowns 30 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 20.0K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $61.8K; both countdowns 29 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 6 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 20.3K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.2M and Top 10 P&L $64.2K; both countdowns 29 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 7 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 21.0K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $16.7M and Top 10 P&L $61.6K; both countdowns 28 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 21.6K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $65.2K; both countdowns 27 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 22.1K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $16.2M and Top 10 P&L $81.8K; both countdowns 26 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 9 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 22.4K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.6M and Top 10 P&L $85.6K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 23.0K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $84.1K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 23.2K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $83.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 23.5K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $84.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 23.7K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.6M and Top 10 P&L $87.1K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 12 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 24.3K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $111.8K; both tracks show about 22 days left; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 24.7K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $115.5K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 25.0K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $117.6K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 25.3K; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $117.6K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 25.6K and Total Volume $1.5M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $115.9K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 26.0K and Total Volume $1.5M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $115.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 27.0K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $113.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 27.8K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $111.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet.Re-read 18 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 28.4K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $108.4K; prize pool still $300,000+ with "$100,000+" cash; no winners yet.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: liquiditytech.com

Live nowBBlackboard × Aster

Blackboard × Aster Trading Competition (Season 1)

$100KPrize poolup to $100,000 (organizer wording: "a guaranteed $17,000 prize pool, which can grow to as much as $100,000"; Volume leaderboard up to $70,000, PnL leaderboard up to $30,000)

2026-10-10 → 2026-11-1026% elapsed · Ends in 23 days

Eligibility: No geographic restrictions published on the event page (any Blackboard account; one account per person)

Format

Two leaderboards on Aster perpetuals traded through the Blackboard terminal; one registration enters both. Volume board: up to $70K across up to 50 winners, 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC (both event pages as read 7 Oct 2026). PnL board (net realized PnL after fees plus unrealized PnL at the close): up to $30K across up to 25 winners, 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC. Each pool unlocks over seven levels by combined qualified volume and qualified-trader count (Lv1 $14K + $3K at 50 traders, up to Lv7 $70K + $30K at $1B volume and 250 traders). Registration 2–9 Oct; claim window 12–26 Nov 2026 (unclaimed prizes forfeited). Only builder-fee-attributed fills count.

Official page ↗

Announced 1 Oct 2026 via Chainwire. The $100,000 is the Lv7 maximum; the guaranteed floor is $17,000 ($14K Volume + $3K PnL at Lv1). Discrepancy: the Chainwire release gives a $50,000 minimum qualifying volume, while both event pages (read 2 Oct 2026) say $88.9K. The event pages are used here. Re-read 9 Oct 2026: the Volume event page still shows 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC, registration closing 9 Oct, the $70K Lv7 maximum and seven unlock levels, $88.9K qualifying volume; leaderboard not yet open. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~05:25 UTC): the competition is live (Oct 10 00:00 – Nov 10 23:59 UTC); the Volume leaderboard is open with $171K total volume, #1 "Whiteboard" at $171K; current level "Not yet unlocked" — Lv1 ($14K) needs 49 more traders; Volume pool maximum still $70K. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $2.1M; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K, 50 traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $2.6M; qualified traders 5 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 45 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $3.1M; qualified traders 6 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 44 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $4M; qualified traders 8 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 42 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $4.4M; qualified traders 8 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $4.6M; qualified traders 8 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 42 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $5.5M; qualified traders 8; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $10M; qualified traders 9 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 41 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $26M; qualified traders 10 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 40 more traders); current level still "Not yet unlocked". Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $33.2M; qualified traders 13 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 37 more traders); current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 18 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $34.9M; qualified traders 17; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7); claim window 12–26 Nov 2026.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: blackboard.fi

Live now

KuCoin

KuCoin PROOF: Go The Distance

$800KPrize pool800,000+ USDT (KuCoin wording: "Share 800,000+ USDT prize pool"; release: "over 800,000 USDT in rewards")

2026-09-25 → 2026-11-1545% elapsed · Ends in 28 days

Eligibility: Market makers, institutional users and sub-accounts cannot participate; KuCoin may restrict the regions eligible for physical rewards

Format

Multi-part PROOF edition, 25 Sep 2026 16:00 UTC – 15 Nov 2026 15:59:59 UTC. Spot Edition (100,000 USDT prize pool; eligible trades earn prize-draw entries); Futures Edition (560,000 USDT prize pool, team or solo): futures lucky draw from 8 Oct, individual futures competition by trading volume 12–30 Oct, team futures competition by team P&L 12–30 Oct; VIP Exclusive trading competition 26 Oct – 15 Nov. Physical prizes include a Colgano bike, jerseys signed by Tadej Pogačar, iPhone 18. Registration via the page button required.

Official page ↗

Announced by KuCoin on 25 Sep 2026 as the latest edition of its PROOF series (after the Golf and Tomorrowland editions), themed on brand ambassador Tadej Pogačar. The "800,000+ USDT" headline is KuCoin's own; the campaign page itemises only the Spot Edition (100,000 USDT) and Futures Edition (560,000 USDT) pools, with the VIP Exclusive section marked "Coming Soon", so the remainder is not yet broken down. Found via trading-tournaments.com/web search, confirmed on KuCoin's campaign page and blog on 27 Sep 2026.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: kucoin.com

Live now

Kraken

Kraken Futures Challenge ($5,000,000 USDG)

$5MPrize poolup to 5,000,000 USDG (Kraken wording: "reaching up to $5,000,000 USDG at $18.5 billion of weighted Community Volume. The final pool depends on total participant volume and isn't guaranteed"; the challenge page showed 25,000 USDG unlocked on 13 Oct 2026)

2026-10-12 → 2026-12-1010% elapsed · Ends in 53 days

Eligibility: Eligible clients aged 18+ in jurisdictions where Kraken Futures is available, excluding the US, UK, EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Australia

Format

Single Kraken Futures leaderboard ranked by Weighted Trading Volume (not PnL): gold futures x3, real-world assets (commodities, forex, equity perps) x2, crypto futures x1. Enrolment required before trading; minimum 50,000 USD weighted volume to be ranked. Pool unlocks through eight tiers by community volume (25K USDG default; 100K at $3B; 300K at $3.5B; 700K at $5B; 1M at $6B; 1.5M at $7.5B; 3M at $12B; 5M at $18.5B). Fixed rewards for ranks 1–50, ranks 51+ share a Tail Pool equally. Window 12 Oct 2026 00:00 UTC – 10 Dec 2026 23:59:59 UTC; rewards paid in USDG within 14 days of the end.

Official page ↗

Announced on Kraken's blog on 12 Oct 2026 (published 15:17 UTC). Found via trading-tournaments.com (discovery signal only) and confirmed on Kraken's own blog post and challenge page. Challenge page read 13 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): "Unlocked currently 25,000 USDG", current first prize 3,750 USDG, volume until next unlock $3B; leaderboard leader at 3,667,066 USD volume; no participant counter is published. The $5,000,000 figure is the top tier and is not guaranteed. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): still "Unlocked currently 25,000 USDG", current first prize 3,750 USDG, volume until next unlock $3B; leaderboard leader at 12,504,812 USD volume. Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): still "Unlocked currently 25,000 USDG", current first prize 3,750 USDG, volume until next unlock $3B. Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai): still "Unlocked currently 25,000 USDG", current first prize 3,750 USDG, volume until next unlock $3B. Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): still "Unlocked currently 25,000 USDG", current first prize 3,750 USDG, volume until next unlock $2.9B.

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: blog.kraken.com

UpcomingGGate

Gate WCTC S9 (World Crypto Trading Championship Season 9)

$6MPrize poolup to 6,000,000 USDT (campaign page: "6,000,000 USDT" prize pool; Team Competition, Solo Competition and PK Match pools unlock dynamically by number of valid trading users, and "the maximum prize pool does not represent the amount actually paid out")

2026-10-26 → 2026-11-250% elapsed · Ends in 38 days

Eligibility: Users in the UK and other restricted regions may not have access to all or part of the services (per Gate's User Agreement); API users, VIP 15+, market makers, corporate/institutional accounts and sub-accounts are ineligible

Format

Registration 9 Oct 08:00 – 25 Nov 08:00 UTC (auto-registration on first visit; identity verification needed for rewards). Team Competition in two halves, 26 Oct – 10 Nov and 10 Nov – 25 Nov 08:00 UTC (45% / 55% of the team pool; each half split 60% platform-wide volume, 20% CFD volume, 20% profit leaderboards; teams of 5, captain takes 20% of a leaderboard reward); Solo Competition 26 Oct – 25 Nov (min 20,000 USDT converted volume); Up/Down PK Match 26 Oct – 25 Nov; plus a Lucky Launch Zone and Trading Carnival side events. A valid trading user = 5,000 USDT converted volume. Products: spot, ETF, flash swap, stocks, futures and TradFi/CFD. Rewards within 15 business days after the event ends and review completes.

Official page ↗

Ninth season of Gate's WCTC (S8 ran 23 Apr – 20 May 2026). Found via web search (ChainCatcher) on 11 Oct 2026 and confirmed on Gate's own campaign page, which shows the 6,000,000 USDT pool and the phase dates above (times shown in UTC). Unlocked amounts will differ from the advertised maximum; S8 unlocked 980,000 USDT of its advertised maximum. Not the same event as the legacy World Cup Trading Championships (row "wctc").

✓ as of 2026-10-17

Source: gate.com/competition/wctc-s9

Expected, unannounced & recurring

Not announced

Bybit

Bybit WSOT 2026

—Prize pool

Dates: Not announced
Eligibility: US + sanctioned jurisdictions excluded

Not announced by Bybit as of 16 Sep 2026: no press release, no announcement post, no promo page (bybit.com/en/wsot2026 opens the homepage; the 2025 page still shows 2025 dates). The activities feed was re-checked on 16 Sep 2026 and has posted two new items since the 15 Sep run, neither of them WSOT: a "[New User Exclusive] Bybit 7UP Giveaway #7 – Win from 2,000 USDT!" and "New: BTC & ETH Options with Nov 6, 2026 Expiry for U.S. Midterm Elections", both dated 15 Sep 2026. Behind them the feed is unchanged: an OpenPayd USD deposit event (20,000 USDT) and a P2P GHS cashback promo from 11 Sep, Bybit AI quests (25 USDT, 10 Sep), a Bybit AI livestream (9 Sep), Bybit City Edition 9 (8 Sep), an 8,000 USDT weekly pool (8 Sep) and a $100,000 Apple stock-trading event (8 Sep). Nothing Bybit has posted this month exceeds the $120,000 Wednesday Airdrop (3 Sep). Web searches on 15 and 16 Sep 2026 for a WSOT 2026 announcement returned only WSOT 2025 material (Aug–Sep 2025, $10M pool) and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. The usual aug–sep window is now almost fully past. Bybit's 2026 competitions are far smaller: TradFi Trading Tools Arena 100,000 USDT (13 Aug – 12 Sep, ended 12 Sep 2026) and the Wall Street Showdown 100,000 USDT (3 Mar – 10 Apr). Not to be confused with wsot.com "WSOT® 2026" by Tradants GmbH, a real-money tournament running 1 Jul – 31 Dec 2026 with no cash prize pool, unrelated to Bybit. Re-checked 17 Sep 2026 on PR Newswire's Bybit feed, which is current to 16 Sep 2026 (latest items: "Bybit Derivatives Volume Climbed to $321B in August", "Bybit Recognized by Korean National Police Agency", "Bybit Launches Bybit Odds") and carries no WSOT 2026 release. announcements.bybit.com and bybit.com/en/promo could not be reached this run (HTTP 503 through the reader proxy, timeouts on direct fetches, 404 on the promo path), so those two channels were not confirmed today. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026, and this run reached the channel that failed on 17 Sep: announcements.bybit.com rendered through the reader proxy and carries no WSOT 2026 item. Its latest activities are "MENA VIP Weekend Boost: Earn up to 500 USDT every weekend" (17 Sep 2026), "New: BTC & ETH Options with Nov 6, 2026 Expiry for U.S. Midterm Elections" (15 Sep 2026), "Deposit USD via OpenPayd & trade USD pairs to earn rewards from a 20,000 USDT prize pool" and "The Ultimate P2P Cashback: Trade GHS, get 100% fees back" (both 11 Sep 2026) and "Top Stock Buzz: Trade Apple to earn a share of $100,000!" (8 Sep 2026) — nothing above $100,000 and nothing resembling WSOT. A web search the same day again returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament; one result mixing in a "200 BTC prize pool" describes an earlier WSOT edition, not 2026, and was not used. The aug–sep window is now effectively over with no announcement. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026 on Bybit's latest-activities feed, which is unchanged from the 19 Sep run and contains nothing resembling WSOT: the newest items are the 17 Sep MENA VIP Weekend Boost (up to 500 USDT), the 15 Sep BTC & ETH options listing for the U.S. midterms, the 11 Sep OpenPayd USD deposit event (20,000 USDT) and P2P GHS cashback, Bybit AI quests (25 USDT, 10 Sep), the Bybit AI livestream (9 Sep), Bybit City Edition 9, the 8,000 USDT weekly pool and the $100,000 Apple stock-trading event (all 8 Sep), the MENA monthly 1 BTC draw (4 Sep) and the $120,000 Wednesday Airdrop (3 Sep). A web search on 20 Sep 2026 again surfaced only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament — the search engine's own summary conflated the two and described "WSOT 2026" as running 1 Jul – 31 Dec 2026 with registration closing 1 Nov, which is wsot.com's Tradants GmbH tournament and NOT Bybit's; nothing from that summary has been written to this row. The aug–sep window is now effectively past with no Bybit announcement. Re-checked on the evening of 21 Sep 2026: Bybit's Latest Activities feed has posted two items since the 20 Sep read, neither of them WSOT — "Top Bybit Odds: View to Victory official product launch with a 17,000 USDT total prize pool!" and "[LATAM Exclusive] Fiat & Pay Fiesta: Earn up to 45 USDT in P2P Coupons!", both dated 21 Sep 2026. Behind them the feed is byte-for-byte the same as the 19–20 Sep reads (MENA VIP Weekend Boost 17 Sep, U.S. midterm options 15 Sep, P2P GHS cashback and OpenPayd 11 Sep, Bybit AI livestream 9 Sep, 8,000 USDT weekly pool and Apple Stock Buzz $100,000 8 Sep, MENA 1 BTC draw 4 Sep, Wednesday Airdrop $120,000 3 Sep). Nothing Bybit has announced in September 2026 exceeds $120,000, and with September nearly over the aug–sep window has effectively passed: the row stays unannounced. Re-checked 22 Sep 2026 (17:00 UTC) on announcements.bybit.com/en/?category=latest_activities through the reader proxy: still no WSOT or World Series of Trading item. The feed's newest entries are "Bybit City Edition 10: Transform your community activity into bigger, better rewards!" (22 Sep 2026) and "Top Bybit Odds: View to Victory official product launch with a 17,000 USDT total prize pool!" and "[LATAM Exclusive] Fiat & Pay Fiesta: Earn up to 45 USDT in P2P Coupons!" (both 21 Sep 2026); behind them the feed is unchanged, and nothing Bybit has posted this month still exceeds the $120,000 Wednesday Airdrop of 3 Sep 2026. The aug–sep window is now effectively over with no announcement. Re-checked 23 Sep 2026: the Bybit latest-activities feed has no item newer than "Bybit City Edition 10" (22 Sep 2026) and still no WSOT 2026 post; a web search the same day returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. Re-checked 24 Sep 2026 (via r.jina.ai): the Bybit latest-activities feed still has no item newer than "Bybit City Edition 10" (22 Sep 2026) and no WSOT 2026 post; a web search the same day again returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. Re-checked 25 Sep 2026 (via r.jina.ai): the Bybit latest-activities feed still has no item newer than "Bybit City Edition 10" (22 Sep 2026) and no WSOT 2026 post; a web search the same day again returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. Re-checked 26 Sep 2026 (via r.jina.ai): the Bybit latest-activities feed still has no item newer than "Bybit City Edition 10" (22 Sep 2026) and no WSOT 2026 post; a web search the same day again returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. Re-checked 26 Sep 2026 (evening) via Bybit's public announcements index (api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index?locale=en-US), which lists items the rendered feed had not shown: the newest latest-activities posts are "[New Rewards Series] — African Merchants & Traders: Sell NGN on P2P and Earn Up to 3,000 USDT" (25 Sep 2026) and "Bybit Odds: View to Victory official product launch with a 17,000 USDT total prize pool!" (21 Sep 2026); none of the 20 most recent announcements in any category is WSOT 2026, and a web search the same evening again returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament. Re-checked 4 Oct 2026 via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index (newest posts up to 3 Oct 2026: Mantle Puzzle Hunt, Stock Buzz Micron, ByPick Season 1, a BLAST delisting) and a web search: still no WSOT 2026 announcement from Bybit. Re-checked 5 Oct 2026 via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index (newest posts up to 3 Oct 2026: a BLASTUSDT delisting, Mantle Puzzle Hunt, Stock Buzz Micron, ByPick Season 1): still no WSOT 2026 announcement from Bybit. Re-checked 6 Oct 2026 via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index (newest posts up to 6 Oct 2026: Bybit City Edition 11, a LUNA network upgrade, a short-dated options fee discount, a BLASTUSDT delisting): still no WSOT 2026 announcement from Bybit. Re-checked 7 Oct 2026 via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index (newest posts up to 6 Oct 2026: Bybit City Edition 11, MENA Convert Go, a LUNA network upgrade, a delisting notice for 13 Oct): still no WSOT 2026 announcement from Bybit. Re-checked 7 Oct 2026 (~17:10 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items dated 7 Oct (fee-group reclassification) and 6 Oct (City Edition 11, MENA Convert Go); still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 8 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items dated 7 Oct (fee-group reclassification) and 6 Oct (City Edition 11, MENA Convert Go, LUNA upgrade); still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 8 Oct 2026 (~17:10 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items dated 8 Oct (Perp Options community AMA, SEI network upgrade, TradFi perpetual listings, KII Token Splash, tick-size changes); still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 9 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items dated 8 Oct (Perp Options community AMA, SEI network upgrade, TradFi perpetual listings, KII Token Splash, tick-size changes); no newer items and still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 9 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items dated 9 Oct (BTC network deposit/withdrawal suspension notice for 12 Oct, TradFi perpetual listings); latest activities still City Edition 11 and MENA Convert Go (6 Oct); still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 10 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items still dated 9 Oct (BTC network suspension notice, TradFi perpetual listings); latest activities still City Edition 11 and MENA Convert Go (6 Oct); still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items still dated 9 Oct; latest activities: ByPick Season 1 (28 Sep, 100,000 USDT pick game) and no newer; still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 11 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC) via api.bybit.com/v5/announcements/index: newest items still dated 9 Oct (BTC network suspension notice, TradFi perpetual listings); latest activities still ByPick Season 1 (28 Sep) and no newer; a web search the same morning returned only WSOT 2025 material and the unrelated wsot.com tournament; still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC): Bybit's announcements API shows no WSOT 2026 item (newest items 9 Oct); web search finds only the unrelated wsot.com (Tradants GmbH) "WSOT® 2026". Still unannounced. Re-checked 12 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, Bybit announcements API, all types plus latest_activities and latest_bybit_news): no WSOT 2026 announcement; newest activity posts are City Edition 11 (6 Oct) and MENA Convert Go (6 Oct). Re-checked 12 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, Bybit announcements API): still no WSOT 2026 announcement; the newest activity posts are "Bybit Expands Beyond Crypto With Direct Access to U.S. Stocks & ETFs" and "[Exclusive Launch] Full Stocks Ahead: Share 150,000 USDC" (12 Oct), a stock-trading promotion and not WSOT. Re-checked 13 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, Bybit v5 announcements API, latest 30 items through 12 Oct 2026): still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 14 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, Bybit v5 announcements API, latest 30 items through 13 Oct 2026): still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, Bybit v5 announcements API, latest 30 items through 14 Oct 2026): no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, Bybit v5 announcements API, latest 20 items through 15 Oct 2026): still no WSOT 2026 announcement. Re-checked 16 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, Bybit v5 announcements API, latest 20 items through 16 Oct 2026): still no WSOT 2026 announcement; the only new activity post is "Stock Buzz: Trade Tesla. Compete For a Share of 100,000 USDT." (16 Oct), a single-stock promotion and not WSOT. Re-checked 17 Oct 2026 (api.bybit.com announcements, latest 30): no WSOT 2026 announcement; newest activity post is "Stock Buzz: Trade Tesla" (16 Oct).

✓ as of 2026-10-18

Source: prnewswire.com/news/bybit

Expected

MEXC

MEXC 9th Anniversary

$10MPrize poolup to $10M (by precedent)

Dates: expected by cycle: Apr

Source: chainwire.org

Recurring

Binance

Binance Alpha tournaments (BILL, ACU, …)

$200KPrize pool$200K–$300K per event

Dates: every month
Eligibility: Alpha-eligible users

Recurring umbrella row for Binance's per-token Alpha trading competitions, not a single dated event; individual editions are announced every few days and are not tracked separately. Confirmed 20 Sep 2026 against Binance's own Latest Activities announcement catalog, which lists the September 2026 editions and their headline pools: KiiChain (KII) $100K (18 Sep), Cap (CAP) $100K (17 Sep), Pieverse (PIEVERSE) $200K (15 Sep), Teller (DEBIT) $200K (10 Sep), Cluster Protocol (CP) $200K (8 Sep), XPIN Network (XPIN) $200K (4 Sep), Collect on Fanable (COLLECT) $200K (2 Sep) and TermMax (TMX) $200K (1 Sep). The per-event range has widened slightly at the low end — the two most recent editions are $100K rather than the $200K–$300K recorded here — so the range is left as published wording rather than narrowed on two data points.

✓ as of 2026-09-20

Source: binance.com

Recurring

Bybit

Bybit series (WSOC, Master Trader, Spot Arena, Token Buzz)

$100KPrize pool$100K–$330K per event

Dates: every month

Source: trading-tournaments.com

every year

The yearly cycle

The flagship tournaments repeat on a schedule — which is why previews can be planned months ahead. Shaded months are the usual window.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
MEXC Anniversaryevery year
GGate WCTC S8 (World Crypto Trading Championship, 13th anniversary)every year
Bitget KCGIevery year
KuCoin Crypto Cupevery year
Bybit WSOTevery year
ZZoomex World Trading Championship (ZWTC )every year
Binance Alphaevery month
Bybit seriesevery month
Dukascopyevery month

Announced pool

How the big pools grew

Announced prize pools of the two flagship series, by edition. Original chart from our data — announced figures; see the note on distributed amounts below.

Bybit WSOT — announced pool by edition

×7.9 growth

2020 → 2025, USD

Bitget KCGI — pool by edition

×5.3 growth

2022 → 2026, USD (2022 = distributed)

Bybit WSOT — participants by edition

×42.1 growth

2020 → 2025 (2024 = secondary-source estimate)

Top 12

Biggest pools ever announced

Ranked by the announced ("up to") pool. Announced ≠ paid out: many pools are dynamic and unlock with participant count or volume. Where a distributed figure is known we show it.

Bybit WSOT 2024 (5th)Bybit · 2024 · ~85,000 (secondary-source estimate, unverified)

$10Mannounced

Bybit WSOT 2025 (6th)Bybit · 2025 · 520,451 traders from 202 countries; $172.8B volume; 1,474 squads (+288% YoY); 350,000+ registrations

$10Mannounced

$7.98Mdistributed

MEXC Ferrari GiveawayMEXC · 2024

$10Mannounced

MEXC 8th Anniversary Futures Team CompetitionMEXC · 2026

$10Mannounced

BingX 8-Year Anniversary $10MBingX · 2025

$10Mannounced

Aster Double Harvest + Stage 4Aster · 2025

$10Mannounced

MEXC Win: Infinity ArenaMEXC · 2026 · 103,837 participants, 417 teams, 191 countries & regions (final activity-page counters, as of 2026-09-15)

$10Mannounced

Bybit WSOT 2022 (3rd)Bybit · 2022 · ~70,000 (2x 2021)

$8Mannounced

Bybit WSOT 2023 (4th)Bybit · 2023

$8Mannounced

GGate WCTC S8 (World Crypto Trading Championship, 13th anniversary)Gate · 2026 · 28,340 valid traders, 9,598 participating teams (campaign page counters, read 2026-09-07); the launch press release cited 40,000+ registered users and 6,000+ teams

$8Mannounced

Phemex 2026 Ultimate ChampionshipPhemex · 2026

$7Mannounced

Bitget KCGI 2025 (6th)Bitget · 2025 · 120,197 participants; record 1,620 teams; 100+ countries

$6Mannounced

Organizer

History by organizer

Every edition we could source, oldest to newest. Missing cells mean the organizer never published the number — we do not fill gaps with estimates.

Bybit 12

≈$42.09Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Bybit WSOT 2020 (1st)	Aug–Sep 2020	$1.27M (100 BTC + 90,000 USDT)	12,368 traders, 135 teams	Ended	finance.yahoo.com
Bybit WSOT 2021 (2nd)	Aug–Sep 2021	$4.09M	~35,000	Ended	learn.bybit.com
Bybit WSOT 2022 (3rd)	Aug–Sep 2022	$8M (Squad $6M, Solo $1M, Speed Zone $1M)	~70,000 (2x 2021)	Ended	benzinga.com
Bybit WSOT 2023 (4th)	Aug–Sep 2023	~$8M		Ended	learn.bybit.com
Bybit WSOT 2024 (5th)	Aug–Sep 2024	$10M	~85,000 (secondary-source estimate, unverified)	Ended	moondev.com
Bybit WSOT 2025 (6th)	2025-08-27 → 2025-09-15	$10M announced (main $8M: Squad $3.76M, Individual $4.4M; pre-heat $670K)7,976,000 USDT distributed (Bybit recap, 24 Sep 2025)	520,451 traders from 202 countries; $172.8B volume; 1,474 squads (+288% YoY); 350,000+ registrations	Ended	prnewswire.com
Bybit WSOT 2026	Not announced	—		Not announced	prnewswire.com/news/bybit
Bybit series (WSOC, Master Trader, Spot Arena, Token Buzz)	2026	$100K–$330K per event		Recurring	trading-tournaments.com
Bybit Wall Street Showdown (TradFi Stock Festival)	2026-03-03 → 2026-04-10	up to 100,000 USDT		Ended	bybit.com
Bybit Spot Trading Arena (Jul 2026)	2026-07-09 → 2026-07-23	200,000 USDT		Ended	prnewswire.com
Bybit Vietnam All-Market Showdown	2026-07-16 → 2026-08-16	$330,000		Ended	trading-tournaments.com
Bybit TradFi Trading Tools Arena	2026-08-13 → 2026-09-12	100,000 USDT		Ended	announcements.bybit.com

Bitget 8

≈$16.96Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Bitget KCGI 2021 (1st)	Jun–Aug 2021	—		Ended	bitget.com
Bitget KCGI 2022 (Football Edition)	Jun–Aug 2022	large headline poolup to $565,000 distributed (incl. 5 BTC)	32,000+, ~200 teams	Ended	bitget.com/academy
Bitget KCGI 2023 (4th)	2023-08-18	up to $2.65M		Ended	globenewswire.com
Bitget KCGI 2024 (5th)	2024-06-07	up to $5M (dynamic: $100K/8,000 → $5M/200,000)	51,000+ (historical total)	Ended	chainwire.org
Bitget KCGI 2025 (6th)	2025-07-24 → 2025-08-12	$6M (Team League $3M, OnChain $1M, Hot Coin $600K, Airdrop $1M, Copy/Bot $100K, Pioneer $300K)	120,197 participants; record 1,620 teams; 100+ countries	Ended	globenewswire.com
UEX Futures League (Bitget)	2026-06-01 → 2026-07-31	240,000 USDT (120,000 USDT per stage)		Ended	globenewswire.com
Bitget CFD Championship Phase 8	2026-07-20 → 2026-08-03	70,000 USDT		Ended	trading-tournaments.com
Bitget KCGI 2026 (7th)	2026-08-26 → 2026-09-22	up to 3,000,000 USDT (dynamic; final promotion pool 1,360,000 USDT per the activity page, as of 23 Sep 2026)	83,529 participants, 320 teams (final activity-page counters, as of 2026-09-23)	Ended	bitget.com

MEXC 6

≈$31.5Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
MEXC Ferrari Giveaway	2024-11-17 → 2024-12-27	$10M (incl. Ferrari SF90 Stradale, Hublot watch, Leclerc helmet)		Ended	ambcrypto.com
MEXC February Futures Trading Competition	2025-02-12	$1M → $8M (at 150K participants)		Ended	globenewswire.com
MEXC 8th Anniversary Futures Team Competition	2026-04-12 → 2026-05-03	up to $10M (Team $2M, XAUT top-1 $200K, spin up to 2026 USDT)		Ended	chainwire.org
MEXC AI Trading Showdown	2026-07-23 → 2026-08-06	$500,000 (incl. $350K AI challenge)		Ended	trading-tournaments.com
MEXC Win: Infinity Arena	2026-08-25 → 2026-09-15	up to 10,000,000 USDT (tiered: base 1,000,000 USDT, six tiers by registrations, 10M only above 300,000 users)	103,837 participants, 417 teams, 191 countries & regions (final activity-page counters, as of 2026-09-15)	Ended	globenewswire.com
MEXC 9th Anniversary	expected by cycle: Apr	up to $10M (by precedent)		Expected	chainwire.org

Binance 10

≈$10.30Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced		Source
Binance Battle of Thousand Teams (合约千团大战)	—	up to $1.5M in BNB	Ended	binance.com
Binance Futures Championship (合约锦标赛)	2023-06-01 → 2023-06-22	up to 1.8M USDT + 1,400 Cyberworld NFT	Ended	binance.com
Binance Futures Grand Tournament	2024-06-01	up to $3M	Ended	binance.com
Binance World Championship	2024-06-05 → 2024-06-25	1.2M USDC	Ended	cexfinder.com
Binance Alpha tournaments (BILL, ACU, …)	2026	$200K–$300K per event	Recurring	binance.com
Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 3	2026-08-25 → 2026-09-08	up to 500,000 USDC in token vouchers	Ended	binance.com
Binance Traders League Season 4	2026-09-09 → 2026-10-07	Binance's own announcement (8 Sep 2026) says "a share of $4M worth of rewards", broken down as Side Tasks 1,000,000 USDC, Spot solo 1,200 BNB, bStocks solo 708 BNB, TradFi Perp solo 500,000 USDC and Digital Asset Futures solo 1,416 BNB; Binance's campaign landing page headlines the smaller figure "a share of $2M worth of rewards"	Ended	binance.com
Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 4	2026-10-09 → 2026-10-16	up to 400 BNB in token vouchers (≈ $296,000 at the 740.57 USDT BNB price on Binance on 9 Oct 2026)	Ended	binance.com
Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 5	2026-10-14 → 2026-10-21	up to 400 BNB in token vouchers (≈ $293,000 at the 731.97 USDT BNB price on Binance on 14 Oct 2026)	Live now	binance.com
Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 6	2026-10-15 → 2026-10-22	up to 2,300,000 FF (Falcon Finance) in token vouchers (≈ $263,000 at the 0.11415 USDT FF price on Binance on 15 Oct 2026)	Live now	binance.com

OKX 4

≈$2.40Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
OKX Shoot for Glory: BTC Championship	—	5 BTC + 535,000 USDT + Man City tickets		Ended	okx.com
OKX Football Cup Trading Competition	2022	Solo Profit up to $400K		Ended	okx.com
OKX Race to a Million	2026-06-08 → 2026-07-06	up to 1M USDT (top-1 up to $300K)		Ended	incrypted.com
OKX $1M Race x2 (with TradingView)	2026-09-01 → 2026-09-30	1,005,000 USDT max — paid as trading bonuses and xStocks, not cash (the campaign page shows 150,000 USDT unlocked at the 30 Sep 2026 12:00 UTC close)	5,977 participants, 4,865,592,220 USDT aggregate trading volume (final campaign page counters, as of 2026-09-30)	Ended	okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2

WhiteBIT 1

≈$50Kannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
WhiteBIT Influence Trade Battle	2026-05-26 → 2026-07-19	up to 50,000 USDT (teams) + 400+ prize places; individual up to 4,800 USDT/category		Ended	ambcrypto.com

HTX 1

≈$1Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
HTX Quantitative Trading Championship #1	2026-07-15 → 2026-09-13	up to 1,000,000 USDT (unlocked by cumulative participant volume, 9 tiers)		Ended	htx.com

Deribit 1

≈$600Kannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Deribit × SignalPlus: The Island	—	up to 600,000 USDC		Ended	cn.investing.com

BitMEX 1

≈$200Kannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
BitMEX 2026 Trading Cup	2026-06-11 → 2026-07-20	up to 200,000 USDT		Ended	beincrypto.com

LBank 1

≈$5Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
LBank Super League (World Cup 2026 campaign)	2026-06-09 → 2026-07-20	5,000,000 USDT		Ended	lbank.com

BingX 4

≈$17.05Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced		Source
BingX 8-Year Anniversary $10M	2025-04-27 → 2025-06-02	up to $10M (individual $150K, teams $50K)	Ended	bingx.com
BingX Spot Trading Ranking Competition	2025-11-27 → 2025-12-08	up to $50,000 in BTC	Ended	bingx.com
BingX Global Capital Gala (5th edition)	2026-08-05 → 2026-08-31	2,000,000 USDT	Ended	globenewswire.com
BingX SuperX September 2026	2026-09-09 → 2026-09-29	$5,000,000 prize pool (BingX wording: "This season's SuperX brings you a $5,000,000 prize pool, made just for September"; "You can win up to $390,000")	Ended	bingx.com/en/activity/sepsuperx

Gate.io + HTX + KuCoin 1

≈$30Kannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
$AITECH Trading Competition	2025	$30,000		Ended	medium.com

Bitrue 1

≈$78Kannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Bitrue Futures Grand Finale	2026-07-21 → 2026-08-03	77,777 USDT		Ended	trading-tournaments.com

KuCoin 4

≈$2.35Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced		Source
KuCoin 9th Anniversary "Beyond the Signal" multi-track competition	Jul–Aug 2026	up to 650,000 USDT	Ended	kucoin.com
KuCoin Futures Crypto Cup 2026	2026-06-08 → 2026-07-20	500,000 USDT	Ended	kucoin.com
KuCoin KuLeague (Fall Season 2026)	2026-08-31 → 2026-09-21	400,000 USDT106,400 USDT published across two of the three tracks on KuCoin's final leaderboards, read 22 Sep 2026 in two independent renders. Team Battle 90,000 USDT over 15 ranks (1st Pro volume Traders No1 Team 87.3M USDT volume 25,000, 2nd altcoin_alchemists Team 87.29M 20,000, 3rd blockbyblock Team 83.98M 15,000, 4th Nacchi Team 68.16M 10,000, 5th metaverse_traders 62.31M 5,000, then 2,000 each for ranks 6–10 and 1,000 each for ranks 11–15), stamped "Last Update 2026-09-22 04:08:01(UTC)". Solo PnL Contest 16,400 USDT over the 15 ranks displayed (1st **60098 3,901.09% PNL 4,000, 2nd 52137 3,898.46% 3,000, 3rd 51844 3,897.97% 2,400, 4th 48333 3,896.22% 1,800, 5th **37057 3,361.38% 1,400, then 520 each for ranks 6–10 and 240 each for ranks 11–15), stamped "Last Update 2026-09-22 05:03:03(UTC)". This is the published portion, not a total: KuCoin publishes no total-distributed figure, the Solo PnL track's pool is 60,000 USDT against 16,400 shown in its visible top 15, and the Grand Lucky Draw (240,000 USDT) still names no winners — so 283,600 USDT of the 400,000 USDT headline remains unaccounted for.	Ended	kucoin.com
KuCoin PROOF: Go The Distance	2026-09-25 → 2026-11-15	800,000+ USDT (KuCoin wording: "Share 800,000+ USDT prize pool"; release: "over 800,000 USDT in rewards")	Live now	kucoin.com

Phemex 1

≈$7Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Phemex 2026 Ultimate Championship	2026-06-08 → 2026-07-20	$7,000,000 USDT		Ended	phemex.com

Toobit 1

≈$3Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Toobit International Futures Tournament (TIFT) 2026	2026-08-12 → 2026-09-09	3,000,000 USDTTeam Championship: full 150,000 USDT pool unlocked and paid out to the six teams (37,500 / 33,000 / 27,000 / 22,500 / 18,000 / 12,000 USDT). Solo Championship: final pool of 200,000 USDT for the top 300. Toobit published no figure for the remaining tracks, so the 3,000,000 USDT headline is not a distributed total (Toobit release, 11 Sep 2026).	Close to 60,000 registered traders — nearly 24,000 across the six teams and over 45,000 in the solo championship (Toobit closing release, 11 Sep 2026; its headline says "Over 60,000 Traders" while the body says "close to 60,000")	Ended	toobit.com/announcement

Kraken 2

≈$5Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Kraken Bitcoin Trading Challenge	2026-08-19 → 2026-09-19	1 BTC36,974 USD across the ten ranks published on Kraken's final leaderboard (1st 12,189, 2nd 6,501, 3rd 4,063, then 2,031/2,032 each for ranks 4–10) — Kraken publishes no total-distributed figure and the board shows only the top 10 of an up-to-600-place structure, so this is the published portion of the 1 BTC pool, not the whole of it; the page states "Final rewards – paid direct to portfolios within 14 days" (as of 2026-09-21)		Ended	blog.kraken.com
Kraken Futures Challenge ($5,000,000 USDG)	2026-10-12 → 2026-12-10	up to 5,000,000 USDG (Kraken wording: "reaching up to $5,000,000 USDG at $18.5 billion of weighted Community Volume. The final pool depends on total participant volume and isn't guaranteed"; the challenge page showed 25,000 USDG unlocked on 13 Oct 2026)		Live now	blog.kraken.com

Gate 2

≈$14Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Gate WCTC S8 (World Crypto Trading Championship, 13th anniversary)	2026-04-23 → 2026-05-20	up to $8,000,000 (press release); campaign page shows up to 7,200,000 USDT across four contests, unlocked dynamically by number of valid traders	28,340 valid traders, 9,598 participating teams (campaign page counters, read 2026-09-07); the launch press release cited 40,000+ registered users and 6,000+ teams	Ended	gate.com/competition/wctc-s8
Gate WCTC S9 (World Crypto Trading Championship Season 9)	2026-10-26 → 2026-11-25	up to 6,000,000 USDT (campaign page: "6,000,000 USDT" prize pool; Team Competition, Solo Competition and PK Match pools unlock dynamically by number of valid trading users, and "the maximum prize pool does not represent the amount actually paid out")		Upcoming	gate.com/competition/wctc-s9

Zoomex 1

≈$5Mannounced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026 (ZWTC 2026)	2026-09-01 → 2026-10-28	up to 5,000,000 USDT (Zoomex wording: "a record prize pool of up to 5 Million USDT"; split Team/Squad up to 2,500,000, Solo/Individual up to 1,000,000, Rewards Zone/Lucky Draw up to 1,500,000; the activity page shows 0 USDT unlocked as of 3 Oct 2026)	3,509 participants (activity page counter "3,509 / 4,000", as of 2026-10-18)	Live now	zoomex.com

BTCC 1

≈—announced in total

Event	Dates	Announced	Participants		Source
BTCC TOKEN2049 "Trade to Win"	2026-09-07 → 2026-10-12	BTCC's 10 Sep 2026 release says "a $1,000,000 prize pool and a Tesla Cybertruck as the top prize"; BTCC's own campaign page headlines "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!" and values the Cybertruck at $81,999		Ended	globenewswire.com

DEX

DEX tournaments & points programs

On-chain venues run two different things: real prize tournaments, and points programs that farm volume for a future airdrop. We label them separately — they are not the same bet.

Event	Organizer	Dates	Prize pool	Format	Source
Hyperliquid Paper Trading Competition	Hyperliquid	2022-11-15	$7,500	Top-10 + 1 random (early project history)	x.com/HyperliquidX
Aster Genesis Stage 1–4 (points)	Aster	2025	4% supply per stage	Points for volume — NOT a cash-prize tournament (airdrop farming) · points program, separate format	docs.asterdex.com
Aster BMT/USDT Competition	Aster	2025-01-29 → 2025-02-05	50,000 ASTER + 2.27M BMT	Spot + perps, 3% cap per participant	kucoin.com
Aster CMC20 + RIVER Competition	Aster	2025-02-01	$75,000	Double tournament	bitget.com
Aster Double Harvest + Stage 4	Aster	2025-11-01	$10M	5 weekly leaderboards	chainwire.org
Backpack Points Program S1–S4	Backpack	2025-03-21	24–25% supply to community	Volume-based points — NOT a cash-prize tournament; VARA licence + MiFID II (FTX EU) · S4 from 20 Nov 2025; points program, separate format	support.backpack.exchange
Alpha Arena (AI-model competition)	nof1.ai (on Hyperliquid)	2025-10-01 → 2025-11-30	—	Qwen3 Max +22.3% (1st), DeepSeek V3.1 +4.89%; Claude −30.81%, Grok 4 −45.3%, Gemini 2.5 Pro −56.71%, GPT-5 −62.66% · data via Chinese secondary source — verify against nof1.ai before publishing	finance.sina.com.cn
Atomic Wallet Trading Competition (perps on Hyperliquid)	Atomic Wallet	04-09 → 04-23	$6,000 total (top-3 PnL: $3,000 / $2,000 / $1,000)	Perps on Hyperliquid; prizes unlock once combined volume reaches $20M; min $10K volume per trader; 1 wallet = 1 participant	competition.atomicwallet.io
Liquidity Arena 2026 (AI Quant Trading Championship)	LTP (Liquidity Technologies)	2026-09-09 → 2026-11-04	more than $300,000 in total prize value, including $100,000+ in cash prizes for the top three teams in each track	Two tracks. Track A 'Logic Frontier' for AI developers, university teams and agent builders — autonomous agents judged on reasoning quality and decision consistency via MCP-based Reasoning Log verification, not profit alone; Phase 1 ran 20 Jul – 21 Aug 2026, transition 22 Aug – 6 Sep. Track B 'Liquidity Pro' for hedge funds, prop desks and HFT firms — scored on performance, capital capacity, execution quality and slippage control in live markets; Dual-track main competition 9 Sep – 4 Nov 2026, official results 15 Nov, closing ceremony end of Nov, per the timeline on arena.liquiditytech.com read 22 Sep 2026; LTP's 10 Jul 2026 event blog still gives the older 7 Sep – 31 Oct with results 14 Nov, and the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline from LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release is not repeated on either page. Non-cash share of the pool is AI agent credits, token incentives, LTP VIP tiers, clearing-fee rebates, sponsor products and career placement. · Only $100,000+ of the '$300,000+' headline is cash; the rest is ecosystem value (credits, rebates, VIP tiers). Start date follows LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release ('dual-track main competition begins September 9'); LTP's own event blog dates Phase 2 from 7 Sep — the two organizer sources differ by two days. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026. arena.liquiditytech.com again served only its legal disclaimer through the reader proxy — no counters, dates or standings — so nothing was taken from it. LTP's own event blog is unchanged and still carries the figures in this row: "200+ registered teams", "$100,000+ in cash prizes distributed across top teams in both tracks" plus "$200,000+ in ecosystem value", Track A Phase 1 20 Jul – 21 Aug, Phase 2 opening 7 Sep, both tracks closing 31 Oct and results on 14 Nov 2026. No interim standings are published, and the blog does not repeat the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline recorded here from LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026 and nothing has changed on either source. arena.liquiditytech.com still serves only its legal disclaimer through the reader proxy — no counters, dates, prize figures or standings — so again nothing was taken from it. LTP's own event blog still reads "200+ registered teams", "$100,000+ in cash prizes distributed across top teams in both tracks" and "$200,000+ in ecosystem value", with Track A Phase 1 20 Jul – 21 Aug, the dual-track competition 7 Sep – 31 Oct and results on 14 Nov 2026, and publishes no interim standings or winners. The 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline recorded here still rests solely on LTP's 8 Sep 2026 press release; the blog does not repeat it, and with the deadline three days away no organizer page confirms it. Re-checked 22 Sep 2026, and for the first time arena.liquiditytech.com served its real content to a direct fetch instead of the legal disclaimer that every earlier run got through the reader proxy. Its timeline reads: 15 Jun early-bird registration; 20 Jul Track A Phase 1 commences; 21 Aug Track A Phase 1 ends; 22 Aug – 8 Sep Track A environment transition & KYC; 9 Sep dual-track main competition begins; 4 Nov "Arena Closes! Competition Ends"; 15 Nov official results announcement; end of November closing ceremony. The end date in this row is therefore moved from 31 Oct to 4 Nov 2026 to follow the event's own page, the same source the 9 Sep start already follows; LTP's event blog (published 10 Jul 2026) still shows the older 7 Sep – 31 Oct with results on 14 Nov, so the two organizer sources remain four days apart at the close as they were two days apart at the start. The page headlines "Prize Pool $300,000+" with "$100,000+ Total Pool" in cash for the top three teams of each track, matching this row. It carries a "REGISTER NOW" button linking to a Google Form with no deadline shown, so the 23 Sep 2026 Track B registration deadline still rests solely on the 8 Sep press release and is now one day away without organizer-page confirmation — it has been dropped from the format field rather than restated. The page's live counters (Track A total trades, Track A total volume, Track B total AUM, Track B total P&L) all render 0, which contradicts the organizer's own "more than 70,000 trades" for Track A Phase 1 and is read as an unpopulated dashboard, not a reset; the participant figures above are left as published and were not overwritten. Re-read 25 Sep 2026 (~17:15 UTC): the arena homepage dashboard now renders live counters — Track A (Phase II: Mainnet Duel Finals) Total Trades 13.5K and Total Volume $702.9K; Track B (Liquidity Pro) Total AUM $16.2M and Top 10 P&L $1.7M — with both countdowns at 39 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end. Prize pool still shown as $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 1 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A (Phase II: Mainnet Duel Finals) Total Trades 17.6K and Total Volume $965.0K (13.5K / $702.9K on 25 Sep); Track B (Liquidity Pro) Total AUM $17.5M ($16.2M on 25 Sep) and Top 10 P&L $35.3K ($1.7M on 25 Sep — a running P&L figure, not a cumulative counter). A direct fetch in the same window showed the dashboard unhydrated at 0, as on 22 Sep. Both countdowns read 34 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 2 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 18.1K and Total Volume $995.0K; Track B Total AUM $17.3M and Top 10 P&L $35.7K; both countdowns 33 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 3 Oct 2026 (~05:30 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 18.8K and Total Volume $1.0M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M (down from $17.3M) and Top 10 P&L $43.4K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 3 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.0K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M and Top 10 P&L $45.0K; both countdowns 31 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 4 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.3K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $16.9M and Top 10 P&L $46.0K; both countdowns 31 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 4 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 19.5K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $48.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~05:25 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser; a plain proxy render served only the legal disclaimer): Track A Total Trades 19.8K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $49.8K; both countdowns 30 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 5 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 20.0K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $61.8K; both countdowns 29 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 6 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 20.3K and Total Volume $1.1M; Track B Total AUM $17.2M and Top 10 P&L $64.2K; both countdowns 29 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 7 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 21.0K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $16.7M and Top 10 P&L $61.6K; both countdowns 28 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 21.6K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $17.0M and Top 10 P&L $65.2K; both countdowns 27 D 10 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 8 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 22.1K and Total Volume $1.2M; Track B Total AUM $16.2M and Top 10 P&L $81.8K; both countdowns 26 D 22 H, consistent with the 4 Nov 2026 end; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 9 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 22.4K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.6M and Top 10 P&L $85.6K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 23.0K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $84.1K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 23.2K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $83.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 23.5K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $84.8K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 23.7K and Total Volume $1.3M; Track B Total AUM $17.6M and Top 10 P&L $87.1K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 12 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 24.3K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $111.8K; both tracks show about 22 days left; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 24.7K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $115.5K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 25.0K and Total Volume $1.4M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $117.6K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Track A Total Trades 25.3K; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $117.6K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 25.6K and Total Volume $1.5M; Track B Total AUM $17.5M and Top 10 P&L $115.9K; prize pool still $300,000+; no winners yet. Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 26.0K and Total Volume $1.5M; Track B Total AUM $17.7M and Top 10 P&L $115.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 27.0K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $113.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet. Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 27.8K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $111.7K; cash pool still "$100,000+"; no winners yet.Re-read 18 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai with X-Engine: browser): Track A Total Trades 28.4K and Total Volume $1.6M; Track B Total AUM $17.9M and Top 10 P&L $108.4K; prize pool still $300,000+ with "$100,000+" cash; no winners yet.	liquiditytech.com
Aster Human vs AI Season 2: Battle for the Futures	Aster	2026-01-22 → 2026-01-29	$150,000 reward pool	Team Human (70 traders) vs Team AI (30 traders) on Aster perpetuals, scored by ROI with an individual PnL leaderboard. Runs 22 Jan 12:00 UTC – 29 Jan 14:00 UTC; sign-up closed 18 Jan 23:59 UTC, participants announced 20 Jan; rewards distributed before 12 Feb 2026. Breakdown: $30,000 individual prize for the top-PnL human trader; winning team shares $50,000 (raised to $100,000 if Team Human wins), losing team shares $20,000, both split proportionally by positive PnL. Designated pairs only: BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT, SOLUSDT, XRPUSDT, ASTERUSDT; EVM self-custodial wallet required. · Season 2 of Aster's human-versus-AI format. Aster has not published a distributed-reward figure or a winner list on the campaign page.	docs.asterdex.com
Binance Wallet On-Chain Trade & Win Season 7 (Arc)	Binance	2026-09-16 → 2026-10-04	$200,000 in rewards (Binance wording: "Trade on Arc to Win a Share of $200,000 in Rewards!"), split into two independent pools — a 100,000 USDC Leaderboard Prize Pool sponsored by Peach and a 10U Challenger Bonus Pool of 100,000 USDC worth of O tokens sponsored by o1.exchange	Realized-PnL leaderboard on tokens traded on the Arc chain through Binance Wallet (web, app or extension) with o1.exchange and Peach; purchases must be made with USDC and only keyless wallets are supported. Leaderboard pool 100,000 USDC to the top 200 (1st 15,000; 2nd 10,000; 3rd 7,000; 4th 4,000; 5th 2,000; 6–20 800 each; 21–100 350 each; 101–200 220 each), paid in USDC on Arc. 10U Challenger Bonus Pool 100,000 USDC worth of O tokens split equally among every user with cumulative volume ≥ 100 USD and realized PnL ≥ 10 USD, paid in O tokens on BSC. Positive PnL on tokens issued via o1.exchange and Peach counts at 2x, negative PnL at face value; stablecoin-to-stablecoin PnL does not count. Users can win from both pools. Qualification: trade (buy and sell) at least one eligible Arc token and end with positive realized PnL. Registration and competition both run 2026-09-16 12:00 UTC to 2026-10-04 00:00 UTC; public review 4–8 Oct, internal review 8–12 Oct, rewards within 14 business days after that. · Added 20 Sep 2026, found in Binance's own Latest Activities announcement catalog. Every field here comes from that announcement, published 2026-09-16 11:45 UTC — the announcement HTML page is CAPTCHA-walled to our checks, as it has been on every run since 7 Sep 2026, but the article's public CMS endpoint returns the full text and was used to read it. The $200,000 headline is the sum of two sponsored pools rather than a single Binance-funded prize fund, and only the 100,000 USDC leaderboard half is paid in stablecoin; the other half is paid in o1.exchange O tokens valued at the 00:00 UTC price on the distribution date, so its dollar value at payout is not fixed. This is on-chain trading through Binance Wallet on the Arc chain, not a Binance exchange competition, hence kind=dex. Seasons 1–6 of the same campaign are not in this file. No participant counter and no leaderboard standings are published in the announcement; the campaign page itself requires a logged-in Binance Wallet. prize_distributed stays null — rewards are not due until roughly late October 2026 (4-day public review from 4 Oct, 4-day internal review from 8 Oct, then up to 14 business days). Re-checked 7 Oct 2026 (via the CMS endpoint): the announcement is unchanged; the competition closed 2026-10-04 00:00 UTC and is in its public review period (to 8 Oct 00:00 UTC), followed by internal review to 12 Oct and distribution within 14 business days, so no results or distributed totals yet. Re-checked 8 Oct 2026 (via the CMS endpoint): the announcement is unchanged; the public review period ended 2026-10-08 00:00 UTC and the internal review runs to 2026-10-12 00:00 UTC; no results or distributed totals published yet.	binance.com
Blackboard × Aster Trading Competition (Season 1)	Blackboard × Aster	2026-10-10 → 2026-11-10	up to $100,000 (organizer wording: "a guaranteed $17,000 prize pool, which can grow to as much as $100,000"; Volume leaderboard up to $70,000, PnL leaderboard up to $30,000)	Two leaderboards on Aster perpetuals traded through the Blackboard terminal; one registration enters both. Volume board: up to $70K across up to 50 winners, 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC (both event pages as read 7 Oct 2026). PnL board (net realized PnL after fees plus unrealized PnL at the close): up to $30K across up to 25 winners, 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC. Each pool unlocks over seven levels by combined qualified volume and qualified-trader count (Lv1 $14K + $3K at 50 traders, up to Lv7 $70K + $30K at $1B volume and 250 traders). Registration 2–9 Oct; claim window 12–26 Nov 2026 (unclaimed prizes forfeited). Only builder-fee-attributed fills count. · Announced 1 Oct 2026 via Chainwire. The $100,000 is the Lv7 maximum; the guaranteed floor is $17,000 ($14K Volume + $3K PnL at Lv1). Discrepancy: the Chainwire release gives a $50,000 minimum qualifying volume, while both event pages (read 2 Oct 2026) say $88.9K. The event pages are used here. Re-read 9 Oct 2026: the Volume event page still shows 10 Oct 00:00 – 10 Nov 23:59 UTC, registration closing 9 Oct, the $70K Lv7 maximum and seven unlock levels, $88.9K qualifying volume; leaderboard not yet open. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~05:25 UTC): the competition is live (Oct 10 00:00 – Nov 10 23:59 UTC); the Volume leaderboard is open with $171K total volume, #1 "Whiteboard" at $171K; current level "Not yet unlocked" — Lv1 ($14K) needs 49 more traders; Volume pool maximum still $70K. Re-read 10 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $2.1M; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K, 50 traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $2.6M; qualified traders 5 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 45 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 11 Oct 2026 (~17:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $3.1M; qualified traders 6 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 44 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~05:20 UTC): Volume leaderboard total volume $4M; qualified traders 8 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked" (Lv1 $14K needs 42 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 13 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $4.4M; qualified traders 8 / 50; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $4.6M; qualified traders 8 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 42 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 14 Oct 2026 (~17:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $5.5M; qualified traders 8; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 15 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $10M; qualified traders 9 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 41 more traders); Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 16 Oct 2026 (~05:10 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $26M; qualified traders 10 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 40 more traders); current level still "Not yet unlocked". Re-read 17 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $33.2M; qualified traders 13 / 50 (Lv1 $14K needs 37 more traders); current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7). Re-read 18 Oct 2026 (~05:15 UTC, via r.jina.ai): Volume leaderboard total volume $34.9M; qualified traders 17; current level still "Not yet unlocked"; Volume pool maximum still $70K (Lv7); claim window 12–26 Nov 2026.	blackboard.fi

1983 →

Where it all started

Real-money championships with independent audits predate crypto by decades. They set the standard for what a verified track record looks like.

Event	Organizer	Since	Format	Source
World Cup Trading Championships (WCTC)	Robbins Trading Company	1983	Real money, independent audit; min $10K futures / $5K forex. All-time record Larry Williams +11,376% (1987); only 4x champion Andrea Unger; Ivan Sherman +491.4% (2023 Futures)	worldcupchampionships.com
U.S. Investing Championship	—	1983	Stocks/options, real money	trading-tournaments.com
Dukascopy Trader Contest	Dukascopy		Forex; contest with trader blogs, 4-criteria rating	dukascopy.com

Firm

Prop-firm challenges (a related format)

Funded-trader challenges are competitions with a different payout: pass the test, trade the firm's capital, split the profit. Fast-growing, and a different risk profile.

Firm	What stands out	Founded	Source
HyroTrader	Real execution via Bybit API, up to $200K→$1M, 1:100, 30,000+ traders	2020/2022, Bratislava	kraken.com
Crypto Fund Trader	Bybit partnership, 715+ pairs, $18M+ paid out, payouts 8–24h	Nov 2022	altfins.com
Breakout Prop	Acquired by Kraken (Sep 2025) — first top exchange in prop; 62 pairs, USDC payouts on demand	2025	kraken.com
FundedNext	Prop Firm of the Year 2025 (Finance Magnates), 51,000+ traders in 195+ countries, entry from $32, split up to 95%	Mar 2022, UAE	coinpaper.com
FTMO	Revenue $329M in 2024 (+53% YoY), net profit $62.5M; acquired OANDA Jan 2025 ($250M UniCredit credit line); crypto via CFD	—	veritaschain.org
BrightFunded / Funded Trading Plus / DNA Funded / The Trading Pit	Various models, splits up to 100%	—	cryptofundtrader.com

Eligibility

Who can enter

Eligibility differs per exchange and changes often. Bybit WSOT excludes the US and sanctioned jurisdictions; OKX requires verified users in supported regions; WhiteBIT and others exclude specific countries. Always confirm on the official page before you register — we re-check before every seasonal update.

FAQ

Straight answers

Are crypto trading competitions free to enter?+

Registration is usually free, but exchange tournaments require KYC and trading with real funds — your ranking depends on real PnL, ROI or volume. If you want the competition without the capital risk, demo/paper formats (including BuyCrypt practice tournaments) run the same leaderboard mechanics on simulated money.

Why do prize pools say "up to"?+

Because most pools are dynamic: the amount unlocked grows with the number of participants or the trading volume. Bitget KCGI 2022 is the classic case — a large headline, up to $565,000 actually distributed. This page shows announced and distributed figures separately wherever a source exists.

When is Bybit WSOT?+

Every year in August–September. WSOT 2025 ran 27 Aug – 15 Sep with early registration from 12 Aug. WSOT 2026 dates are expected by that cycle until Bybit announces them — we mark them "expected", not confirmed.

How are winners ranked?+

By ROI %, absolute PnL, or volume, depending on the league — many events run several leaderboards at once (solo, squad, newcomer). Anti-cheat rules disqualify wash trading and multi-accounts; OKX and Bitget keep only the highest-PnL entry when strategies are near-identical.

What is the difference between a tournament and a prop-firm challenge?+

A tournament pays prizes to the top of a leaderboard for a fixed period. A prop-firm challenge is a test: pass it and you trade the firm's capital for a profit split, with drawdown rules instead of a leaderboard. Different risk, different payout, different skill emphasis.

Does BuyCrypt run any of these?+

No. BuyCrypt is not an exchange and is not affiliated with the organizers listed here. We track the events so you can rehearse the format on simulated capital and compare yourself with a fact-checked Trader Passport before committing real money on an exchange.

BuyCrypt

Go deeper

Fact-checked guides from this series, and the traders who actually win these things.

Crypto trader leaderboard — fact-checked track recordsWho wins tournaments? Start with who can call the market.→Free crypto trading tournaments on BuyCryptNo deposit, real USDT prizes — the practice format.→Complete guide to BuyCrypt tournamentsFormats, scoring, payouts — how our leaderboards work.→Bybit WSOT 2026: the complete guide to the biggest crypto trading tournament→Top 10 biggest crypto trading competitions of all time by prize pool→ROI vs PnL vs Volume: how tournament leaderboards really work→DEX tournaments: Hyperliquid, Aster, GMX and points programs→Demo and paper-trading tournaments: how to train without risking money→How to win a trading tournament: strategies of the top traders→

Method & honesty note. Sources are listed per event. Pools are shown as announced; distributed amounts only when an organizer or auditor published them. Future dates come from each event's yearly cycle and are labelled expected until officially announced. Participant counts from secondary sources are flagged. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any organizer. · Updated 2026-10-18 · Spotted an error? Send a correction →