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A competition is a time-boxed trading contest with a live leaderboard, run for a specific community. Your members join through your link, trade normally, and are ranked on performance. At the end, winners collect prizes. For a host, a competition does three things at once: it brings your audience onto Alpha under your referral code, it concentrates their trading into a window where they are paying attention, and it earns you revenue share on all of it.

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What you get as a host

  • A dedicated leaderboard for your community, visible in the app under Leaderboard
  • A join link you control
  • Revenue share on every trade your participants make, during and after the competition
  • Additional revenue share terms agreed with the Alpha team for the competition itself

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How to host one

1

Email the team

Send a note to [email protected] with your community’s size, where it lives (Discord, Telegram, YouTube, etc.), and the dates you have in mind.
2

Agree the format

Alpha works with you on length, ranking method (PnL, return, or volume), prize pool, and revenue share terms.
3

Launch

You get a join link and the competition appears on the leaderboard. Share the link with your community.
4

Payout

Alpha handles winner verification and payouts by default. Hosts who prefer to run their own prize pool can do that instead. See Competitions and payouts.

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Prizes and payouts

  • Alpha-funded prizes are paid by Alpha directly to winners’ accounts after the competition closes and winners complete identity verification.
  • Host-funded prizes are handled by the host. Alpha still runs the leaderboard and confirms final standings.
Winners of an Alpha-paid prize must complete identity verification before receiving it. This is the only time Alpha asks a user for ID. See Competitions and payouts.

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Joining a competition as a trader

You do not have to host to take part. Open Leaderboard in the app to see active competitions, or join directly from a link shared by a trading group or creator you follow. Your normal trades count; there is nothing extra to set up.

Host a competition

Email [email protected] with your community details and preferred dates.