Points Contest

How a TRUE points season works: the board, the rank ladder, the minimum bar, how prizes are paid, and the rules that keep the board honest.

TRUE points run in seasons. Each season has a published start, a published close, a prize pool and a rank ladder, and the board in the app (Rewards, Arena) shows you where you stand against the same numbers that pay out. Four seasons have closed and settled; the rules below are the shape every season shares, and each season’s own numbers are announced before it starts.

How points are earned

Points reward using the product. The base rates are on Points and Rewards: swaps are measured on volume, perps on the fee you paid, so leverage does not inflate a score. Copy trading is perps and earns like perps. Streaks, deposit targets and campaign bonuses can multiply a season score; which multipliers a season carries is stated when it opens, and a multiplier that is announced is applied at the close exactly as announced.

The board

Rank is the prize key. The ladder pays by rank, top down, and the top ranks carry most of the pool. The ladder for a season is published with it.
A minimum bar applies. A rank only pays if the account cleared the season’s minimum points, so a thin season does not pay down to accounts that barely traded. Season 4 paid ranks 1 to 86 for that reason, not 1 to 150.
Self trades only. Positions mirrored from a copy leader or opened by an Autopilot do not count toward an account’s ranking on the trading boards. See Leaderboards and Arena.
House and team accounts are off the board. TRUE’s own accounts earn points like anyone else and are excluded from ranking, so the rank you see is among real traders and the prize band at that rank is yours.

Prizes

Season prizes are paid in USDC inside TRUE Exchange, to your main account, as tradeable balance. There is no on-chain transaction to look for and no claim button to press; the payout shows in your Exchange balance and your points history. Some seasons and campaigns carry $TRUE allocations next to the USDC; everything about the token’s value, launch and delivery is announced by the project on the official channels and on true.foundation, and support does not hold a date.

Fair play

Farming gets reversed

Wash trading, self-matching, referral rings and test traffic are detected and removed from the board and the pool, including after a season closes if they are found late. Detection thresholds are not published. If you think a reversal was wrong, your points history carries a reason on the row; open a ticket and Kira reads it with you.

Selling or trading referral links outside sanctioned channels is grounds for reversal and account-level enforcement.

Campaigns alongside a season

Deposit matches, volume sprints and Autopilot loss cover run as campaigns next to the season, each with its own card, rule and window. They are listed in the Bonus Hub.

For Developers

Your balance and the full ledger, reversals included, are on the points endpoints listed on Points and Rewards, and the MCP tools get_points_balance and get_bonus_hub return the same numbers the app shows.