FAQ

Yes. Create a new Solana address. Fund it with SOL for gas and USDC for trading; swapping SOL to USDC in the wallet is fine. An address that has already traded other tokens cannot sign up.

Capital used has a 10 USDC floor. You can hold more or less USDC in the wallet, but idle USDC is not part of the score.

Market swaps between USDC, KNOTS and STONK that use Jupiter, JupiterZ, OKX or DFlow. The wallet must sign the transaction and the trade must be at least $0.10.

Common reasons are a SOL or other-token endpoint, a direct-pool or unsupported-router trade, a limit/DCA order, a trade below $0.10, a failed transaction, or a trade before entry or after the end. Your wallet history gives the applicable reason.

No. Keep SOL for fees only. A swap from or to SOL is not a competition trade, even if a route happens to use SOL internally.

If you sell KNOTS or STONK that were sent to you, rather than bought in counted trades, for USDC, that sale converts outside inventory to USDC. It does not add volume or profit. The USDC can then be used in counted competition trades.

You can move USDC and outside tokens. Competition tokens sent out, or sold in a non-counted trade, are worth zero for your score. That lowers your result; it does not automatically disqualify you.

Profit divided by capital used. Capital used is the highest net USDC you had in counted trades, never less than 10 USDC. An idle USDC deposit does not lower your percentage.

Yes. Volume, Profit %, PNL and Flipped PNL are separate global boards. Final prize eligibility also checks the KNOTS-volume requirement and event review.

The 50,000 STONK budget is 35,000 STONK (70%) for proportional Volume rewards and 5,000 (10%) each for Profit %, PNL and Flipped PNL. The payout curves for those three are still to be published; a leaderboard rank is not an allocation promise.

The board is provisional at the end. Open competition inventory is marked to the published end-price snapshot, then there is a 48-hour report window before results are final.