NEWS & RECAPS
Competition recaps from real events, plus honest writing for traders and the builders who trade. What actually happened, and what it teaches.
Six matches, one series: inside the Fan Token World Cup
How six live Fan Token trading battles across two weeks turned a football bracket into 340,319 impressions of traded, spectated finance.
Read the story →Paper trading vs real stakes: what a live competition teaches
Paper trading is safe and slightly useless. Real money is instructive and expensive. A scored competition sits in the productive middle. Here is why.
Read →Why crypto builders are turning trading into a spectator sport
A leaderboard is cheaper than an ad. Here is why more teams are running live trading competitions instead of buying acquisition, and what it actually gets them.
Read →How trading competitions actually make you a better trader
Backtests reward hindsight. A live competition removes it. Here is what a timed, scored contest teaches that a solo demo account never will.
Read →Three days inside Coinbase House: $5.73M traded on camera
A roughly $1,200 activation budget moved $5.73M of on-chain perps volume across 242 trades, twelve players, and three days in Miami.
Read →$4,000 into $6.63M: a 90-minute perps competition at DAS NYC
Eight traders, each staked $500, opened and closed 81 real perpetual positions in one 90-minute session. Every fill settled on-chain on Base.
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