Overview

Bot submissions for The Trality Trading Competition will be open from April 1, 2023 and close on May 2, 2023 8:59 UTC, while the Competition itself will run from May 2 9:00 UTC, 2023 until June 16, 2023. There are 3000 USDT up for grabs, as well as a free one-year Trality “Queen” plan for the top 5 positions. Both current and new Trality users are invited to participate by submitting their Trading Bots, which are to be created on the Trality platform. You can find all the fine details in the following paragraphs:

Eligibility Criteria

1. To be eligible to take part in the competition, participants must have a registered Trality account. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up here. You are allowed to use Trality’s free tier for the competition and you will never be charged for our services without additional consent!

2. Participants must be at least 18 years old or older at the time of entry. You may be required to verify your age and complete a KYC process before prize distribution.

3. Participants may be from any country or region where their entry is not prohibited or restricted by law.

4. There is no fee for entry and no purchase necessary.

Bot Criteria

In order to be eligible for participation in the Competition, all Trading Bots submitted are required to meet a particular set of criteria:

• Your bot uses Trality’s Code Editor or Rule Builder

• Your bot has USDT as quoted currency.

• Your bot trades with 1 or more of the following coins as base currency: Table 1: asset universe for the competition. Coins with relative 30d trading volume on Binance >1%, excluding meme coins and stable coins.

AAVE

ADA

ALGO

ATOM

AVAX

BNB

BTC

DOGE

DOT

ETH

FIL

FTM

LINK

LTC

MATIC

NEAR

PAXG

SAND

SOL

TRX

UNI

VET

XLM

XMR

XRP

ZEC

• Your bot is created to run on a virtual Binance exchange account (see “Duration and Trading” section below).

• Your bot is created either by using the Trality Code Editor or Rule Builder.

Submission Criteria

1. Submission Deadline to the Competition is May 2, 2023, 08:59 UTC.

2. To submit an entry to the Competition, you must create a Trading Bot on Trality adhering to the above-mentioned Criteria, using the Trality Code Editor. After the bot creation, you must click on “Submit Bot” in the “Competition” menu of Trality and choose said bot.

3. A continuously updated ranking of all submitted Trading Bots is displayed after the Submission Deadline on the leaderboard in the Competition menu.

4. Any submitted Trading Bot will run in the Competition until the end of the Simulation Period, unless disqualified or manually withdrawn.

5. Each Participant may submit 1 Trading Bot to the Competition.

6. Participant's entry must not violate or infringe on any applicable law or regulation or third-party rights, especially but not limited to any intellectual property rights.

Duration and Trading

The Simulation Period starts directly after the Submission Deadline, i.e., on May 2, 2023, 09:00:00 UTC and runs until June 16, 2022, 08:59:59 UTC. During this period, the Trading Bots run continuously on a virtual Binance exchange account, which will be automatically assigned. This means that the bots submitted to this Competition will NOT be trading with real assets, but instead run in a simulated environment, mirroring the real market on Binance using 0.10% fees for all trades (both maker and taker). At the beginning of the Simulation Period, each Trading Bot will be automatically assigned to such a virtual account and will henceforth trade with a virtual starting balance of 20,000 USDT.

Scoring and Ranking

Competition entries that meet all the Criteria outlined above (as well as Rules and Conditions outlined below) are ranked continuously following the beginning of the Simulation Period until its end. While only the ranking at the end of the Simulation Period counts for the final result, this continuous ranking is meant as an indication for participants on where they stand.

Competition Metric = { ^Return⁄_{max(MaxDD,4%)}, if Return > 0; Return, if Return < 0}

where

Return = ^{FinalPortfolioValue}⁄_{InitialPortfolioValue}-1

For bots with positive Return, the Competition Metric is a slightly adjusted Calmar Ratio, where Return is divided by the bots' Maximum Drawdown. If Maximum Drawdown is small, 4% is used. For bots with negative Return, the Competition Metric is simply the Return.

Please note that bots with less than 3 trades will be penalized to the bottom of the participant ranks.

Prizes

At the end of the Simulation Period, the top 5 ranked participants according to their Trading Bot’s Competition Metric will receive a Prize. This Prize is related to the performance of their Trading Bot and is made up of the following rewards:

In the event of a tie in any of the rankings, the order is decided based on the bot with the higher PnL. In the event that multiple bots competing for the top 10 also have the same PNL, that Prize, as well as the next n Prizes, will be split evenly among the tied participants, where n is the number of participants that tied for that rank. In the event that there are fewer than n Prizes available, then the remaining Prizes will be split evenly among the remaining winners. The score of each winner will be public during the Simulation Period. No one, including Trality, will see the winners’ algorithms.

Trality will email winners in order to pay out Prizes. Prizes are exclusively paid out via crypto transfer under the condition that the winner replies to the notification email by explicitly stating his/her acceptance of the Prize within 60 days and informing Trality about his/her full name and address as well as his/her crypto wallet address. The Prize will be paid out in a stable coin, and both the stable coin and network are chosen solely at the discretion of Trality.

Prior to the prize distribution, we may ask you to complete a KYC process to verify your identity. Participants who fail to share this information with Trality are not eligible for their Prize. All costs and fees associated with the Prize transfer, including network fees, are exclusively to be covered by the participant. If a crypto transfer to the participant is not possible due to regulatory, technical or other reasons, Trality cannot be held accountable for the Prize.

Bot Marketplace

Trality may have participating Trading Bots continue running in virtual trading mode on their platform beyond the end of the Simulation Period in order to promote its platform and possible bot performance to be achieved on it. Alternatively, Trality may also chose to “sponsor” a submitted bot and have it run on a Trality-funded Binance account with real money in order to assess the bot’s performance with real assets. Moreover, Trality reserves the right to promote participating Trading Bots on its Bot Marketplace, where the bots may be marketed to potential followers for copy trading. As always, the algorithm and all respective intellectual property rights will always remain with the Bot’s creator and no one—neither Trality nor any potential Bot Marketplace customers—will be able to see the underlying Algorithm if any Trading Bot! Should a Trading Bot be marketed on the Bot Marketplace, its creator will be compensated for possible copy-trading (additional terms of service may apply).

Other Rules

1. Trading Bots submitted to the Competition must place all of their orders with the order functions as described in the Trality Docs.

2. Trading Bots submitted to the Competition will be run with a fee structure on virtual accounts for Binance (0.10% Maker/Taker virtual fee).

3. Trading bots submitted to the Competition will be run using the default 0 basis point fixed slippage model. Prices from submitted orders will always be taken from the best bid/ask price from Binance’s order book.

4. Trading bots submitted to the Competition must use the official Trality API as documented here and must exclusively use data fetched via the Trality Data Object. Using a custom data source is not possible.

5. Each Participant may have only one Trality account. If the Participant submits entries from more than one account, all entries may be disqualified.

6. Collaboration on a Trading Bot is permitted, but Trality will not manage the collaboration or Prize division. The Competition submission is made by, and is the responsibility of, the registered account holder of the account submitting the Trading Bot. You must have all necessary rights to submit your Trading Bot to the Competition.

7. Competition scores and rankings will change as we make improvements and changes to our trading engine. While we will do our best to minimize impact, you should expect platform adjustments to cause Competition leaderboard changes.

8. Trality expressly points out that no liability is assumed for the processing of Trading Bots. This applies in particular to possible impacts on the ranking of participants, possible bot downtime, cancellation or non-filling of orders, crashing of bots caused by interruptions, or other system failures as well as third parties (e.g., server downtime, internet outage, non-availability of APIs, programming and/or system errors on the part of the exchange for crypto assets).

General Conditions

1. Prizes are non-transferable to other Trality members or to other accounts.

2. Trality reserves the right at its sole discretion to alter, amend, modify, suspend or terminate this Competition, or any aspect of it, including but not limited to changing the Prize frequency, Prize amount, criteria, scoring rules, or backtesting parameters, at any time and without prior notice. In such an event, Trality will make reasonable efforts to notify all Participants by email.

3. Trality will make all reasonable efforts to support the acceptance of entries and the execution of virtual Trading Bots. Entries may not be successfully processed or executed because of errors or failures. Those errors or failures may be caused by Trality, the Participant, third parties, or a combination of parties. Trality will not be liable or otherwise responsible for any entry that cannot be processed or executed, regardless of the cause of the problem.

4. Trality will have complete discretion over interpretation of the Competition Rules, administration of the Competition and selection of the Winners. Trality’s decisions regarding the administration of the Competition, interpretation of the Competition Rules, and the selection of the Winners will be binding and final.

5. Participant agrees and gives his/her express consent for Trality to use or publish without additional compensation in any medium (including, without limitation, in print, via television, via the internet, via email and or/other electronic form) and/or share with its agents, business partners and successors during and after the Competition, information for publicity purposes including photographs, videotape or digital recordings that Trality takes of Participant, Participant's Trality username, public written statements, and Trading Bot performance for all or part of the Competition, without compensation. Participant hereby waives any rights, claims or interests that Participant may have to control the use of any or all of the publicity material in whatever medium used.

6. All current employees, interns, and contractors of Trality, their immediate family members, and their household members are allowed to participate in the Competition.

7. This Competition is void where prohibited by law.

8. If any provision(s) of these Competition Rules is held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect.

9. Competition Winners are solely responsible for the payment of any and all taxes, including but not limited to federal, state and local taxes that may apply on their Prize. Trality shall have the right, but not the obligation, to make any deductions and withholdings that Trality deems necessary or desirable under applicable federal and local tax laws, rules, regulations, codes or ordinances.

10. Trality is not responsible for the actions of Participants in connection with the Competition, including Participants’ attempts to circumvent the Competition Rules or otherwise interfere with the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Competition. Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Competition, or whom Trality believes to be causing or attempting to cause malfunction, error, disruption or damage will be disqualified. Additionally, any attempt to cheat the Competition, as determined at the sole discretion of Trality, may result in immediate disqualification of the Participant, as well as other possible consequences, including temporary or permanent disqualification from the Competition. Trality reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to disqualify any individual who is found to be, or suspected of, acting in violation of these Competition Rules, or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike, obscene, immoral or disruptive manner, or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

11. These Competition Rules shall be governed by and subject to the Trality Terms of Use as well as Privacy Statement including the jurisdictional and dispute processes specified therein. The Terms of Use shall prevail the Competition Rules.

Binding Agreement

Participant agrees that by participating in the Competition the Participant will be bound by these Competition Rules (which may be amended or varied at any time by Trality with or without notice) as well as the terms and conditions that apply to Participant's use of the Trality website.

Liability

1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Participant agrees to release, discharge and hold harmless Trality and each of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, Prize providers/suppliers, agents, representatives, retailers, and advertising and promotion agencies, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "Released Parties"), from any and all liability, claims, losses, injuries, demands, damages, actions, and/or causes of actions whether direct or indirect, which may be due to or arise out of or in connection with the participation in the Competition or any portion thereof, or the awarding, acceptance, receipt, use or misuse or possession of the Prizes or while preparing for or participating in any Competition-related activity (including, without limitation, liability for any property loss, damage, personal injury or death, violation of rights of publicity or privacy, or claims of defamation or portrayal in a false light; or based on any claim of infringement of intellectual property). Participants agree that the Released Parties shall have no responsibility or liability for discontinued Prizes; human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of information; any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer equipment or systems, software, or Internet service provider utilized by Trality; interruption or inability to access the Competition website or any online service via the Internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; any damage to participant’s (or any third person’s) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the Competition; any lost/delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects; and/or any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of the Released Parties. Each participant further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Released Parties from and against any and all liability resulting or arising from the Competition and to release all rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against Released Parties and hereby acknowledges that Released Parties have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to a Prize, including express warranties provided exclusively by a Prize supplier that may be sent along with a Prize. The releases hereunder are intended to apply to all claims not known or suspected to exist with the intent of waiving the effect of laws requiring the intent to release future unknown claims.

2. Participant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Competition, or any Prize awarded, will be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards will be limited to actual third-party, out-of-pocket costs incurred, (if any), not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), but in no event will attorneys’ fees be awarded or recoverable; (3) under no circumstances will any participant be permitted to obtain any award for, and participant hereby knowingly and expressly waives all rights to seek, punitive, incidental, consequential or special damages, lost profits and/or any other damages, other than actual out-of-pocket expenses not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), and/or any rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased; and (4) participant’s remedies are limited to a claim for money damages (if any) and participant irrevocably waives any right to seek injunctive or equitable relief. some jurisdictions do not allow the limitations or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above may not apply to the participant.