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These rules govern Season 1: Korea vs Japan. All participants — traders and followers alike — are bound by them from the moment they register. 0x1 and Aster reserves the right to disqualify any account found to violate these rules, with or without prior notice, if the violation is clear from on-chain evidence.

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Eligibility

To register as a competing trader (selected or backup), your Aster trading account must meet all of the following at the time of registration:
  • At least TBA USDT in cumulative realized volume in the 90 days prior to registration.
  • No active account ban or platform suspension on 0x1 or Aster.
National team traders must additionally be nominated or approved by the 0x1 team for their country slot.
Any follower with a funded Aster account can attach to a competing team. There is no volume or history requirement for follower participation. KYC is required only to claim token rewards — standard mirror trading does not require KYC.
National Traders (selected and backup) may represent only one country per season. Country assignment is based on nationality or country of residence at the time of registration or something else. Dual nationals must choose one country and cannot switch once the season opens. Followers may follow traders from either country without restriction.

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Scoring

The primary scoring metric is net realized PnL on Aster perpetual futures, denominated in USDT, over the full season window.
  • Only positions opened and closed within the season window count. Positions carried in from before the start date do not count.
  • Unrealized PnL does not count. Only realized (closed) positions are scored.
  • Both long and short positions qualify. There is no restriction on direction.
  • Nation score = weighted sum of all qualifying team scores within that country bracket (national team weight > open team weight; exact weights TBA).

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Risk controls

These constraints apply to all traders on competing teams. The 0x1 engine enforces them automatically where possible; 0x1 reserves the right to exclude trades that circumvent these limits.

Maximum leverage

TBA. Trades placed at higher leverage on Aster are not excluded from the leaderboard by the DEX, but 0x1 will exclude them from season scoring if the leverage at open exceeds the cap.

Minimum hold time

TBA seconds. Positions opened and closed within the minimum hold time are excluded from scoring. This prevents high-frequency wash-adjacent churning from inflating PnL figures.

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Anti-manipulation

Wash trading — placing offsetting trades across related accounts to create artificial volume or PnL — is a disqualifying violation. 0x1 uses on-chain address clustering and order-correlation analysis to detect it. Any trader whose account shows statistically significant wash-trading patterns will be disqualified without refund of entry fees or accrued rewards.
Coordinating with another team or country to artificially inflate or deflate standings (for example, deliberately losing to boost a rival team’s score in exchange for off-platform consideration) is a disqualifying violation.

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Disqualification

Disqualification removes the account and all associated contributions from the season leaderboard. The country score is recalculated without the disqualified team’s contribution. Disqualified accounts forfeit any accrued rewards. Appeals may be submitted to the 0x1 team within 7 days of disqualification notice.
The following are disqualifying violations:
  • double-representation of country eligibility.
  • Wash trading, as defined above.
  • Coordinated leaderboard manipulation.
  • Exceeding the leverage cap on scored trades (deliberate, repeated).
  • Use of exploit, bug, or API abuse on Aster that produces artificially favorable fills.
  • Violation of Aster’s own terms of service in a way that affects on-chain data integrity.
0x1 acts as the final arbiter of disqualification decisions during Season 1. A more decentralized dispute process is planned for future seasons as governance matures.