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Crypto trading competitions 2026

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Live nowBingX

BingX SuperX September 2026

$5MPrize pool$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")
Format

BingX's own wording: "three phases of the solo contest kick off together, with multiple leaderboards, including futures trading volume and ROI, running in parallel", plus a zero-cost airdrop reward on registration. Per-phase dates, per-leaderboard splits and eligibility terms are not published on any BingX page we could reach.

Official page ↗
Added 10 Sep 2026 after four runs of failed confirmation. The only BingX-hosted page carrying the claim is the promo carousel served on BingX's own perpetual pages (e.g. bingx.com/en/perpetual/BTC-USDT), whose SuperX item is timestamped 2026-09-03 and states the $5,000,000 September pool, the three parallel solo-contest phases and the "up to $390,000" figure. BingX's announcement centre (checked 7–10 Sep 2026) lists only margin-rate and listing items; bingx.com/en/activity/superx, /en/act/superx and /en/superx return 404 or BingX's not-found shell; no BingX support article carries this edition. Start and end dates are therefore left null — the aggregator trading-tournaments.com shows 3–29 Sep 2026, which no BingX page confirms. SuperX is BingX's recurring contest brand (earlier editions: Spring $1,000,000, Olympics team 600,000 USDT, Masters $240,000+). Re-checked 19 Sep 2026: the promo carousel, which failed to render in the 19 Sep morning run, rendered again through the reader proxy and carries exactly the same item — timestamped 2026-09-03 10:57:02, "September SuperX Grand Return: $5M + airdrop await", the $5,000,000 pool, the three parallel solo-contest phases, the "up to $390,000" figure and a register-for-airdrop call to action — and still no start or end date and no link to a dedicated BingX event page. start/end therefore stay null; the aggregator's 3–29 Sep 2026 window remains unconfirmed by BingX. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026: the promo carousel on bingx.com/en/perpetual/BTC-USDT rendered through the reader proxy and carries the same SuperX item, but re-timestamped 2026-09-20 10:04:48 (it read 2026-09-03 10:57:02 on 19 Sep) — the wording is identical, "September SuperX Grand Return: $5M + airdrop await", the $5,000,000 September pool, three parallel solo-contest phases including futures volume and ROI leaderboards, the "up to $390,000" figure and a register-for-airdrop link, with still no start or end date and no link to a dedicated BingX event page. Seventeen days into the month BingX has published no dated terms anywhere we can reach, so start/end stay null and the aggregator's 3–29 Sep 2026 window remains unconfirmed by BingX. Re-checked 27 Sep 2026: BingX has a dedicated event page, bingx.com/en/activity/sepsuperx, titled "September SuperX: Grand Return". Its banner reads "Join to Share $5,000,000" and its description reads "Compete for a share of 5 million USDT, complete lucky draw tasks, and join three solo trading contests for even more rewards". The page shows lucky-draw tasks and prizes but no start date, end date or rules text; its embedded data has empty beginDate/endDate fields. A search-engine summary of this page gives 3–29 Sep 2026, but we could not see those dates on the page, so start/end stay null.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: bingx.com/en/activity/sepsuperx
Live nowOKX

OKX $1M Race x2 (with TradingView)

$1MPrize pool1,005,000 USDT max — paid as trading bonuses and xStocks, not cash (the campaign page shows 150,000 USDT unlocked as of 26 Sep 2026)
2026-09-01 → 2026-09-3090% elapsed · Ends in 3 days
Participants
5,361 participants, 4,074,510,822 USDT aggregate trading volume (campaign page counters, as of 2026-09-26)
Eligibility
KYC; main accounts only; min 100 USDT equity; restricted countries per OKX ToS 2.2
Format

Crypto leaderboard 900,000 USDT in trading bonuses (top 50, needs 1,000,000 USDT volume); xStocks & equity-perps leaderboard 100,000 USDT in xStocks (top 10, 100,000 USDT volume); TradingView connection bonus 5,000 USDT (first 500). Registration 25 Aug – 30 Sep.

Official page ↗
Sequel to 'Race to a Million' (Jun–Jul 2026). Prizes are bonuses/xStocks — not withdrawable cash. Full terms re-confirmed 8 Sep 2026 on the localized page okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2 (registration 25 Aug – 30 Sep, competition 1–30 Sep, 12:00 UTC; 900,000 USDT crypto board split 270k/180k/135k/90k/45k, 18k for ranks 6–10 and 2,250 for 11–50; 100,000 USDT xStocks board for the top 10; 5,000 USDT plus 50 TradingView subscriptions for the first 500 who connect TradingView). The non-localized paths okx.com/campaigns/1m-race-x2, /en/ and /en-us/ returned 404 to our checks on 7 and 8 Sep 2026. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026 on the localized page okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2: terms unchanged — registration 25 Aug – 30 Sep 2026 12:00 UTC, competition 1–30 Sep 2026 12:00 UTC, "over 1 million USDT in rewards" split 900,000 USDT in trading bonuses, 100,000 USDT in xStocks and 5,000 USDT for the first 500 TradingView connections, rewards distributed within 15 business days of the end. The page publishes no participant counter and no leaderboard standings, and no winners are announced. Its countdown rendered as all zeros in this fetch; with the competition running to 30 Sep that is treated as a render artefact of the localized page, not an end, and no date was changed on the strength of it. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026: for the first time the localized page okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2 rendered its live campaign data, and two independent reader-proxy renders agreed. It publishes "Усього учасників" 5 038, "Загальний обсяг торгівлі" 2 737 276 299 / 2 737 292 360 USDT (a live counter read seconds apart) and "Поточні винагороди розблоковано (USDT)" 100 000 — so 100,000 USDT of the 1,000,000 USDT leaderboard pool is unlocked with ten days to run; the 1,005,000 USDT headline stays a maximum. The crypto leaderboard's top five read j***y 759.12M (27,000 USDT), al****om 171.44M (18,000), Lu**a1 160.03M (13,500), ku****om 97,859,857.09 (9,000) and mi****ru 88,587,054.03 (4,500) — exactly 10% of the published 270,000 / 180,000 / 135,000 / 90,000 / 45,000 tiers, consistent with a pool that unlocks pro rata with aggregate volume. The countdown read "09 д 18 г 49 хв", consistent with the 30 Sep 2026 12:00 UTC end. Registration (25 Aug – 30 Sep), the competition window (1–30 Sep) and the 900,000 / 100,000 / 5,000 USDT split are unchanged, and no winners are declared. A direct (non-proxy) fetch of the same URL in the same window again returned the pre-hydration state — countdown all zeros, no counters, no leaderboard — confirming that the zeros recorded on 19 Sep were a render artefact and not an end. Re-checked 21 Sep 2026 on the localized page okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2, which again rendered its live data: "Усього учасників" 5 066 (5 038 on 20 Sep), "Загальний обсяг торгівлі" 2 816 601 092 USDT (2 737 276 299 on 20 Sep) and "Поточні винагороди розблоковано (USDT)" still 100 000 — the unlocked figure has not moved for a second day and stands at 10% of the 1,000,000 USDT leaderboard pool with nine days to run; the 1,005,000 USDT headline stays a maximum. The countdown read "09 д 06 г 48 хв 58 с", consistent with the 30 Sep 2026 12:00 UTC end. Registration (25 Aug – 30 Sep), the competition window (1–30 Sep) and the 900,000 / 100,000 / 5,000 USDT split are unchanged, and no winners are declared.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: okx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2
Live nowBinance

Binance Wallet On-Chain Trade & Win Season 7 (Arc)

$200KPrize pool$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
2026-09-16 → 2026-10-0461% elapsed · Ends in 7 days
Eligibility
Requires an active Binance account and a Binance Wallet keyless wallet; Binance states products and services referred to may not be available in every region
Format

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.

Official page ↗
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).
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: binance.com
Live nowBinance

Binance Traders League Season 4

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"Prize pool
2026-09-09 → 2026-10-0764% elapsed · Ends in 10 days
Eligibility
All verified regular users and Binance VIP users for the spot challenges; verified regular users and VIP 1–6 for the Futures, bStocks and TradFi challenges. bStocks are offered through an Approved Prospectus in the ADGM and are not offered in any other jurisdiction, and tokenized securities are not offered to or for the benefit of U.S. persons.
Format

Five tracks on one campaign: Spot Solo Competition, bStocks Solo Competition, TradFi Perpetual Contracts Competition, Digital Asset Futures Competition and Side Tasks (referral plus a first-bStocks-trade task, $1M USDC first-come first-served, up to $10 USDC per referred user who registers and trades $100 cumulative volume). Runs 2026-09-09 10:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 09:59 UTC. Side-task rewards paid within 48 hours of completion; all other rewards paid as token vouchers before 22 Oct 2026, expiring 21 days after distribution.

Official page ↗
Added 19 Sep 2026, ten days after it started: the aggregator trading-tournaments.com listed it ($4,000,000, 9 Sep – 7 Oct) and Binance's own campaign page was then located at binance.com/en/activity/trading-competition/202609tradersleague4 and read through the reader proxy. The two organizer sources disagree on the pool and both figures are therefore recorded: Binance's campaign page headlines "a share of $2M worth of rewards" in two independent renders on 19 Sep 2026, while Binance's 12 Sep 2026 press release — carried verbatim by tribuneindia.com, hybiz.tv and other outlets — says "$4 million equivalent in rewards" and itemises the five track pools that sum to roughly that figure. The campaign page confirms the title and the window "2026-09-09 10:00 to 2026-10-07 09:59 (UTC)", names the Spot Traders League, Futures Traders League, bStock Competitions and Side Tasks tracks, and shows no countdown, participant counter or leaderboard. The per-track amounts, eligibility and distribution timing in this row come from the press release, not from the campaign page. Binance's support-announcement centre (binance.com/en/support/announcement) and blog returned CAPTCHA walls or empty renders to our checks on 19 Sep 2026, as on 7–16 Sep 2026, so the release text could not be confirmed against a Binance support article. prize_distributed stays null; rewards are not due before 22 Oct 2026. Resolved 20 Sep 2026: the Binance support announcement that earlier runs could not reach behind the CAPTCHA wall was retrieved through the article's public CMS endpoint, and it confirms the $4M figure on Binance's own source rather than only in the press release. The announcement — "Binance Traders League Season 4 - Trade Crypto, bStocks & Futures to Share $4M worth of Rewards", published 2026-09-08 10:00 UTC, i.e. four days before the syndicated press release — gives the promotion period as 2026-09-09 10:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 09:59 UTC and the five tracks as Side Task (referral plus a first-bStocks-trade task) 1M USDC over the whole period, and Spot solo 1,200 BNB, bStocks solo 708 BNB, TradFi Perp solo 500,000 USDC and Digital Asset Futures solo 1,416 BNB, each run in two rounds (9–23 Sep and 23 Sep – 7 Oct) with per-round eligible volume of $500 (bStocks $100 AUM) and a Sprint Reward x4 on the Spot track. Eligibility: all verified regular and VIP users for Spot; regular and VIP 1–6 for Futures, bStocks and TradFi; Spot and Futures Liquidity Provider Program members and Binance Brokers excluded. The $2M/$4M gap is therefore a real difference between Binance's landing page and Binance's announcement, not a press-release error. prize_distributed stays null; rewards are not due before 22 Oct 2026.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: binance.com
Live nowBBTCC

BTCC TOKEN2049 "Trade to Win"

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 $81,999Prize pool
2026-09-07 → 2026-10-1257% elapsed · Ends in 15 days
Format

Single futures cumulative-trading-volume leaderboard. BTCC's wording: users "sign up for the campaign, trade futures, and accumulate trading volume to climb the leaderboard"; "the top 300 traders by cumulative futures trading volume by campaign end on October 13, 2026 will earn tiered rewards". Champion: Tesla Cybertruck. Top 6: a TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 ticket plus an in-person meet with the BTCC team at Marina Bay Sands on 7–8 Oct 2026. Across the top 300: iPhones, Apple products, a Nintendo Switch 2 and USDT trading vouchers. Separate track: traders at VIP 3 or above who accumulate 10,000,000 USDT in futures volume during the competition enter an iPhone Duo lucky draw.

Official page ↗
Added 11 Sep 2026; BTCC-hosted campaign page located the same day at btcc.com/en-US/market-events/activity/BTCCTOKENSG2049 (it is listed on btcc.com/en-US/promotions as "Tesla Cybertruck Giveaway & $1,000,000 Prize Pool"). Dates now follow that page — "September 7, 2026 to October 12, 2026", with a live countdown consistent with it — rather than the release, which gave only "campaign end on October 13, 2026"; the two organizer sources differ by one day on the end date. The two sources also differ on the pool: the release says $1,000,000 while the campaign page says "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!", and the published tier table supports the smaller figure — rank 1 Tesla Cybertruck ($81,999) at 500M USDT volume, rank 2 Ducati (100M), rank 3 Rolex (80M), ranks 4-6 MacBook/iPhone/iPad plus a TOKEN2049 Singapore ticket, rank 7 signed jersey (5M), ranks 8-10 gaming/audio devices, ranks 11-300 a $100 USDT trading fund at 25M USDT volume. Separate iPhone Duo lucky draw for VIP 3+ accumulating 10,000,000 USDT in futures volume; trial VIP does not qualify and only non-zero-fee futures pairs count. The page shows a top-10 leaderboard by cumulative futures volume but no participant counter; the leader's cumulative volume was 72,949,317.85 USDT on 11 Sep 2026 and 113,007,907.22 USDT (UID f2**w6) on 15 Sep 2026. Re-checked 16 Sep 2026: dates ("September 7, 2026 to October 12, 2026"), the "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!" headline and the top-300 reward structure are all unchanged, and the leader (still UID f2**w6) had reached 157,521,719.18 USDT cumulative futures volume, up from 113,007,907.22 USDT on 15 Sep 2026 — past the 100M tier but short of the 500M needed for the Cybertruck. The page still publishes no participant counter. BTCC is platinum sponsor of TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. No geographic restrictions published. Re-checked 17 Sep 2026: the campaign page rendered with leaderboard data this run — the top three by cumulative futures volume stand at 176,761,648.40 USDT, 61,207,851.56 USDT and 15,279,880.98 USDT (the leader was at ~157.5M USDT on 15 Sep 2026), with ranks 1–10 shown by partial UID and still no participant total. The page headlines "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!", values the Tesla Cybertruck for rank 1 at $81,999 plus a TOKEN2049 Early Bird Ticket ($499), gives the window as 7 Sep – 12 Oct 2026 and showed a countdown of "25 d 18 H". No winners are declared. Re-checked 19 Sep 2026: the campaign page is unchanged on terms — "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!", the window "September 7, 2026 to October 12, 2026" and the top-300 reward structure — and showed a countdown of "23 d 12 H". The leaderboard by cumulative futures volume now reads 261,020,678.47 / 71,686,244.30 / 28,277,472.40 USDT for ranks 1–3 (176,761,648.40 / 61,207,851.56 / 15,279,880.98 USDT on 17 Sep); the leader has passed half of the 500,000,000 USDT volume tier attached to the Tesla Cybertruck with 23 days left. Still no participant counter and no winners. Unreachable 20 Sep 2026: the campaign page returned HTTP 403 both to the fetch tool and to a plain request from this server, and the reader proxy returned the pre-hydration shell with the countdown at 00d 00H 00M 00S and every leaderboard cell reading "--". No figure was taken from that render; the leaderboard numbers and countdown above remain the 19 Sep 2026 reading and last_verified is deliberately not advanced. Re-checked 20 Sep 2026 in the evening run: the campaign page, which returned only its pre-hydration shell in the morning run, rendered with live data through the reader proxy (direct fetches still return HTTP 403). Terms are unchanged — the "Unlock Up to $80,000 in Rewards!" headline, the window "September 7, 2026 to October 12, 2026" and the top-300 reward structure — and the countdown read "22 d 06 H 49 M 25 S", consistent with the 12 Oct 2026 end. The leaderboard by cumulative futures volume reads 283,462,384.10 / 71,686,244.30 / 28,277,472.40 USDT for ranks 1–3 (261,020,678.47 / 71,686,244.30 / 28,277,472.40 USDT on 19 Sep 2026); the leader, still UID f2**w6, has passed 56% of the 500,000,000 USDT volume tier attached to the Tesla Cybertruck, while ranks 2 and 3 have not moved at all since 19 Sep. The page still publishes no participant counter and declares no winners. Re-read 21 Sep 2026: the window still reads "from September 7, 2026 to October 12, 2026" and the countdown "21 d 06 H 48 M 44 S", consistent with the 12 Oct 2026 end. Leaderboard by cumulative futures volume, ranks 1–3: 297,240,468.44 / 71,686,244.30 / 53,941,284.12 USDT (283,462,384.10 / 71,686,244.30 / 28,277,472.40 USDT on 20 Sep) — the leader (still UID f2**w6) is now past 59% of the 500,000,000 USDT volume tier attached to the Tesla Cybertruck, rank 3 nearly doubled, and rank 2 (UID fr**zw) has not moved since 19 Sep. The reward ladder is unchanged (Cybertruck $81,999, Ducati $16,999, Rolex $7,999, down to a Nintendo Switch 2 $499 at rank 10 and 100 USDT trading funds for ranks 11–300). Still no participant counter and no winners. Re-read 23 Sep 2026 (via r.jina.ai): countdown "19 d 06 H 49 M 31 S", consistent with the 12 Oct 2026 end; leaderboard ranks 1–3 read 297,240,468.44 (UID f2**w6, unchanged since 21 Sep) / 94,600,249.07 (UID f2**ws) / 71,686,244.30 USDT (UID fr**zw, now third). Still no participant counter and no winners.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: globenewswire.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 26 Sep 2026)
2026-09-01 → 2026-10-2846% elapsed · Ends in 31 days
Participants
2,934 participants (activity page counter, as of 2026-09-26)
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.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
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 → 2026-11-0432% elapsed · Ends in 38 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.
✓ as of 2026-09-26
Source: liquiditytech.com
Live nowKuCoin

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 → 2026-11-154% elapsed · Ends in 49 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 2026-09-27
Source: kucoin.com
Expected, unannounced & recurring
Not announcedBybit

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.
✓ as of 2026-09-27
Source: prnewswire.com/news/bybit
ExpectedMEXC

MEXC 9th Anniversary

$10MPrize poolup to $10M (by precedent)
Dates
expected by cycle: Apr
Source: chainwire.org
RecurringBinance

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
RecurringBybit

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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

$1.27M2020$4.09M2021$8M2022$8M2023$10M2024$10M2025

Bitget KCGI — pool by edition

×5.3 growth

2022 → 2026, USD (2022 = distributed)

$565K2022distributed$2.65M2023$5M2024$6M2025$3M2026

Bybit WSOT — participants by edition

×42.1 growth

2020 → 2025 (2024 = secondary-source estimate)

12,368202035,000202170,000202285,0002024est.520,4512025
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.

01
Bybit WSOT 2024 (5th)Bybit · 2024 · ~85,000 (secondary-source estimate, unverified)
$10Mannounced
02
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
03
MEXC Ferrari GiveawayMEXC · 2024
$10Mannounced
04
MEXC 8th Anniversary Futures Team CompetitionMEXC · 2026
$10Mannounced
05
BingX 8-Year Anniversary $10MBingX · 2025
$10Mannounced
06
Aster Double Harvest + Stage 4Aster · 2025
$10Mannounced
07
MEXC Win: Infinity ArenaMEXC · 2026 · 103,837 participants, 417 teams, 191 countries & regions (final activity-page counters, as of 2026-09-15)
$10Mannounced
08
Bybit WSOT 2022 (3rd)Bybit · 2022 · ~70,000 (2x 2021)
$8Mannounced
09
Bybit WSOT 2023 (4th)Bybit · 2023
$8Mannounced
10
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
11
Phemex 2026 Ultimate ChampionshipPhemex · 2026
$7Mannounced
12
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
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Bybit WSOT 2020 (1st)Aug–Sep 2020$1.27M (100 BTC + 90,000 USDT)12,368 traders, 135 teamsEndedfinance.yahoo.com
Bybit WSOT 2021 (2nd)Aug–Sep 2021$4.09M~35,000Endedlearn.bybit.com
Bybit WSOT 2022 (3rd)Aug–Sep 2022$8M (Squad $6M, Solo $1M, Speed Zone $1M)~70,000 (2x 2021)Endedbenzinga.com
Bybit WSOT 2023 (4th)Aug–Sep 2023~$8MEndedlearn.bybit.com
Bybit WSOT 2024 (5th)Aug–Sep 2024$10M~85,000 (secondary-source estimate, unverified)Endedmoondev.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+ registrationsEndedprnewswire.com
Bybit WSOT 2026Not announced—Not announcedprnewswire.com/news/bybit
Bybit series (WSOC, Master Trader, Spot Arena, Token Buzz)2026$100K–$330K per eventRecurringtrading-tournaments.com
Bybit Wall Street Showdown (TradFi Stock Festival)2026-03-03 → 2026-04-10up to 100,000 USDTEndedbybit.com
Bybit Spot Trading Arena (Jul 2026)2026-07-09 → 2026-07-23200,000 USDTEndedprnewswire.com
Bybit Vietnam All-Market Showdown2026-07-16 → 2026-08-16$330,000Endedtrading-tournaments.com
Bybit TradFi Trading Tools Arena2026-08-13 → 2026-09-12100,000 USDTEndedannouncements.bybit.com

Bitget 8

≈$16.96Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Bitget KCGI 2021 (1st)Jun–Aug 2021—Endedbitget.com
Bitget KCGI 2022 (Football Edition)Jun–Aug 2022large headline poolup to $565,000 distributed (incl. 5 BTC)32,000+, ~200 teamsEndedbitget.com/academy
Bitget KCGI 2023 (4th)2023-08-18up to $2.65MEndedglobenewswire.com
Bitget KCGI 2024 (5th)2024-06-07up to $5M (dynamic: $100K/8,000 → $5M/200,000)51,000+ (historical total)Endedchainwire.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+ countriesEndedglobenewswire.com
UEX Futures League (Bitget)2026-06-01 → 2026-07-31240,000 USDT (120,000 USDT per stage)Endedglobenewswire.com
Bitget CFD Championship Phase 82026-07-20 → 2026-08-0370,000 USDTEndedtrading-tournaments.com
Bitget KCGI 2026 (7th)2026-08-26 → 2026-09-22up 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)Endedbitget.com

MEXC 6

≈$31.5Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
MEXC Ferrari Giveaway2024-11-17 → 2024-12-27$10M (incl. Ferrari SF90 Stradale, Hublot watch, Leclerc helmet)Endedambcrypto.com
MEXC February Futures Trading Competition2025-02-12$1M → $8M (at 150K participants)Endedglobenewswire.com
MEXC 8th Anniversary Futures Team Competition2026-04-12 → 2026-05-03up to $10M (Team $2M, XAUT top-1 $200K, spin up to 2026 USDT)Endedchainwire.org
MEXC AI Trading Showdown2026-07-23 → 2026-08-06$500,000 (incl. $350K AI challenge)Endedtrading-tournaments.com
MEXC Win: Infinity Arena2026-08-25 → 2026-09-15up 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)Endedglobenewswire.com
MEXC 9th Anniversaryexpected by cycle: Aprup to $10M (by precedent)Expectedchainwire.org

Binance 7

≈$8Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Binance Battle of Thousand Teams (合约千团大战)—up to $1.5M in BNBEndedbinance.com
Binance Futures Championship (合约锦标赛)2023-06-01 → 2023-06-22up to 1.8M USDT + 1,400 Cyberworld NFTEndedbinance.com
Binance Futures Grand Tournament2024-06-01up to $3MEndedbinance.com
Binance World Championship2024-06-05 → 2024-06-251.2M USDCEndedcexfinder.com
Binance Alpha tournaments (BILL, ACU, …)2026$200K–$300K per eventRecurringbinance.com
Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 32026-08-25 → 2026-09-08up to 500,000 USDC in token vouchersEndedbinance.com
Binance Traders League Season 42026-09-09 → 2026-10-07Binance'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"Live nowbinance.com

OKX 4

≈$2.40Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
OKX Shoot for Glory: BTC Championship—5 BTC + 535,000 USDT + Man City ticketsEndedokx.com
OKX Football Cup Trading Competition2022Solo Profit up to $400KEndedokx.com
OKX Race to a Million2026-06-08 → 2026-07-06up to 1M USDT (top-1 up to $300K)Endedincrypted.com
OKX $1M Race x2 (with TradingView)2026-09-01 → 2026-09-301,005,000 USDT max — paid as trading bonuses and xStocks, not cash (the campaign page shows 150,000 USDT unlocked as of 26 Sep 2026)5,361 participants, 4,074,510,822 USDT aggregate trading volume (campaign page counters, as of 2026-09-26)Live nowokx.com/ua/campaigns/1m-race-x2

WhiteBIT 1

≈$50Kannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
WhiteBIT Influence Trade Battle2026-05-26 → 2026-07-19up to 50,000 USDT (teams) + 400+ prize places; individual up to 4,800 USDT/categoryEndedambcrypto.com

HTX 1

≈$1Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
HTX Quantitative Trading Championship #12026-07-15 → 2026-09-13up to 1,000,000 USDT (unlocked by cumulative participant volume, 9 tiers)Endedhtx.com

Deribit 1

≈$600Kannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Deribit × SignalPlus: The Island—up to 600,000 USDCEndedcn.investing.com

BitMEX 1

≈$200Kannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
BitMEX 2026 Trading Cup2026-06-11 → 2026-07-20up to 200,000 USDTEndedbeincrypto.com

LBank 1

≈$5Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
LBank Super League (World Cup 2026 campaign)2026-06-09 → 2026-07-205,000,000 USDTEndedlbank.com

BingX 4

≈$17.05Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
BingX 8-Year Anniversary $10M2025-04-27 → 2025-06-02up to $10M (individual $150K, teams $50K)Endedbingx.com
BingX Spot Trading Ranking Competition2025-11-27 → 2025-12-08up to $50,000 in BTCEndedbingx.com
BingX SuperX September 2026Sep 2026$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")Live nowbingx.com/en/activity/sepsuperx
BingX Global Capital Gala (5th edition)2026-08-05 → 2026-08-312,000,000 USDTEndedglobenewswire.com

Gate.io + HTX + KuCoin 1

≈$30Kannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
$AITECH Trading Competition2025$30,000Endedmedium.com

Bitrue 1

≈$78Kannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Bitrue Futures Grand Finale2026-07-21 → 2026-08-0377,777 USDTEndedtrading-tournaments.com

KuCoin 4

≈$2.35Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
KuCoin 9th Anniversary "Beyond the Signal" multi-track competitionJul–Aug 2026up to 650,000 USDTEndedkucoin.com
KuCoin Futures Crypto Cup 20262026-06-08 → 2026-07-20500,000 USDTEndedkucoin.com
KuCoin KuLeague (Fall Season 2026)2026-08-31 → 2026-09-21400,000 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.Endedkucoin.com
KuCoin PROOF: Go The Distance2026-09-25 → 2026-11-15800,000+ USDT (KuCoin wording: "Share 800,000+ USDT prize pool"; release: "over 800,000 USDT in rewards")Live nowkucoin.com

Phemex 1

≈$7Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Phemex 2026 Ultimate Championship2026-06-08 → 2026-07-20$7,000,000 USDTEndedphemex.com

Toobit 1

≈$3Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Toobit International Futures Tournament (TIFT) 20262026-08-12 → 2026-09-093,000,000 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")Endedtoobit.com/announcement

Kraken 1

≈—announced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Kraken Bitcoin Trading Challenge2026-08-19 → 2026-09-191 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)Endedblog.kraken.com
G

Gate 1

≈$8Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Gate WCTC S8 (World Crypto Trading Championship, 13th anniversary)2026-04-23 → 2026-05-20up to $8,000,000 (press release); campaign page shows up to 7,200,000 USDT across four contests, unlocked dynamically by number of valid traders28,340 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+ teamsEndedgate.com/competition/wctc-s8
Z

Zoomex 1

≈$5Mannounced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026 (ZWTC 2026)2026-09-01 → 2026-10-28up 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 26 Sep 2026)2,934 participants (activity page counter, as of 2026-09-26)Live nowzoomex.com
B

BTCC 1

≈—announced in total
EventDatesAnnouncedParticipantsSource
BTCC TOKEN2049 "Trade to Win"2026-09-07 → 2026-10-12BTCC'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 $81,999Live nowglobenewswire.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.

EventOrganizerDatesPrize poolFormatSource
Hyperliquid Paper Trading CompetitionHyperliquid2022-11-15$7,500Top-10 + 1 random (early project history)x.com/HyperliquidX
Aster Genesis Stage 1–4 (points)Aster20254% supply per stagePoints for volume — NOT a cash-prize tournament (airdrop farming) · points program, separate formatdocs.asterdex.com
Aster BMT/USDT CompetitionAster2025-01-29 → 2025-02-0550,000 ASTER + 2.27M BMTSpot + perps, 3% cap per participantkucoin.com
Aster CMC20 + RIVER CompetitionAster2025-02-01$75,000Double tournamentbitget.com
Aster Double Harvest + Stage 4Aster2025-11-01$10M5 weekly leaderboardschainwire.org
Backpack Points Program S1–S4Backpack2025-03-2124–25% supply to communityVolume-based points — NOT a cash-prize tournament; VARA licence + MiFID II (FTX EU) · S4 from 20 Nov 2025; points program, separate formatsupport.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 publishingfinance.sina.com.cn
Atomic Wallet Trading Competition (perps on Hyperliquid)Atomic Wallet04-09 → 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 participantcompetition.atomicwallet.io
Liquidity Arena 2026 (AI Quant Trading Championship)LTP (Liquidity Technologies)2026-09-09 → 2026-11-04more than $300,000 in total prize value, including $100,000+ in cash prizes for the top three teams in each trackTwo 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.liquiditytech.com
Aster Human vs AI Season 2: Battle for the FuturesAster2026-01-22 → 2026-01-29$150,000 reward poolTeam 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)Binance2026-09-16 → 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.exchangeRealized-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).binance.com
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.

EventOrganizerSinceFormatSource
World Cup Trading Championships (WCTC)Robbins Trading Company1983Real 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—1983Stocks/options, real moneytrading-tournaments.com
Dukascopy Trader ContestDukascopyForex; contest with trader blogs, 4-criteria ratingdukascopy.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.

FirmWhat stands outFoundedSource
HyroTraderReal execution via Bybit API, up to $200K→$1M, 1:100, 30,000+ traders2020/2022, Bratislavakraken.com
Crypto Fund TraderBybit partnership, 715+ pairs, $18M+ paid out, payouts 8–24hNov 2022altfins.com
Breakout PropAcquired by Kraken (Sep 2025) — first top exchange in prop; 62 pairs, USDC payouts on demand2025kraken.com
FundedNextProp Firm of the Year 2025 (Finance Magnates), 51,000+ traders in 195+ countries, entry from $32, split up to 95%Mar 2022, UAEcoinpaper.com
FTMORevenue $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 PitVarious 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 2026-09-27 · Spotted an error? Send a correction →