House rules

The beta is small and friendly. There is not much to enforce, because the earning system does the work: you earn $POPX on the value of your positions over time, so there is no edge in gaming activity. The rules below are mostly about how the game is meant to feel.

Everyone starts equal

Every account starts with the same $10,000 of practice money, granted silently the moment you join. There is no way to top up and nothing to deposit. Equal stacks are the point: the leaderboard measures skill, not who arrived with more.

Be decent

This is a community of people betting on people. Trade hard, talk trash if you like, but keep it good-natured. The Telegram is the room; treat it like one.

Bots are welcome

Running a bot is a normal way to play. It is not a loophole and it is not frowned upon. See Running a Bot for how, and the points below for what it does and does not change.

• Your bot trades as you. Every trade it makes appears on the public tape under your @handle.
• Its performance is your performance. Bot trading counts on the leaderboard exactly like a trade made by hand.
• Earning is the same. $POPX is earned on the value of your positions over time, by bot or by hand.

One account, one stack

You can add wallets you control and split your stack across them however you like, but the total is still one $10,000 stack per account. Splitting activity across wallets does not create more money and does not earn more $POPX: value and $POPX roll up to your name no matter how many wallets you run. Every wallet trades as you.

The shape of the game

The board is zero-sum minus fees: every dollar won is a dollar another trader put there. $POPX flows fastest to the wave-riders, because it is earned on the value of your positions over time and weighted toward the earliest eras, so the biggest earners are the traders riding the most value while the game runs. And the whole board is the other side of any pump: prices sum to $1.00, so pushing a name up makes every other position a short against you. All of it in practice money, with nothing at stake.

Nothing is at stake

This is testnet with practice money. Nothing you do in the beta can cost you anything, and nothing is promised. Play freely, take the trades you would be scared to take with real money, and tell us what breaks.