dYdX Trading Leagues Pilot Program - Request $1M in DYDX from the Community Treasury

Yeah the trading competition UI/UX and transparency is not great atm.

  • During the active week updates seem to be every 8-12 hours rather than real-time, or close to it; on top of that the updates don’t seem to be consistent or make sense. Sometimes the updates look like they’re lagging by several days, and then some days they are not.

  • No real telegraph as to what volume bracket you are in, seen people atop the leaderboard with a few million PNL and I’d assume they would be in the $500 Million bracket rather than below it. We can deduce this by the prize amount on the rightmost column, but still needs better UX design here.

  • We don’t get a printout of the leaderboards at End of Week, for every volume tier and the address they were issued out to.

Also kind of weird to me that we are celebrating $ PNL rather than ROI%?

Every trading comp I’ve participated in for the last 15 years in both FOREX and Crypto has always been a Percentage Return on Investment, rather than capital, as then that can just be gamified with who has the biggest pockets, rather than the better trader.

Currently just feels like a Poker Cash Game, you bust out, just reload with more cash at a different table ( different account ) and just re-try for the leaderboard. No real incentive for better traders, you’re just going to get played out by the person who has more capital to keep reloading under a new wallet.

As it stands now, you can place in the top 50 by just not trading at all until the last day and taking a modest gamble as the trading week expires. This is why ROI % is industry standard practice in leveraged trading markets.

From Dukascopy to Bybit.

Would like some feedback please @eguegu @chaoslabs

Cheers

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