> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.0x.one/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rules

> Season 1 competition rules: eligibility, scoring, and disqualification.

These rules apply to all of Season 1: Korea vs Japan. All participants — traders and followers — are bound by them from the moment they register. 0x1 and Aster reserve the right to disqualify any account where a violation is clear from on-chain evidence, with or without prior notice.

## Eligibility

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="National trader eligibility">
    To register as a participating trader (selected or backup), you must not have any active account suspension or platform-usage restriction on Aster at the time of registration.

    Selected national team traders must additionally be nominated or approved by the 0x1 team for their country slot.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Follower eligibility">
    Any follower with a funded Aster account can join a participating team on 0x1. There are no volume or trading-history requirements for follower participation.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Country eligibility">
    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. Dual nationals must choose one country and cannot switch once the season opens.

    Followers may follow traders from either country without restriction.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Scoring

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="How scores are calculated">
    The primary scoring metric is **net realized** PnL (in USDT) generated on Aster perpetual futures over the full season window.

    Only positions opened and closed within the season window count. Positions held from before the start are excluded.

    * The participating account must not hold any open positions at the time the competition starts.

    \<Methods>

    * Clear the open positions on the Aster account you registered with, then join.

    * Use a sub-account of the Aster account you registered with.

    * Sign up for a new Aster account and register with it.

    * Unrealized PnL does not count. Only closed (realized) positions are scored.

    * Both long and short positions qualify. There is no restriction on direction.

    * Country score = weighted sum of all qualifying team scores within that country bracket (national team weight > backup team weight; exact weights TBA).

    * Trades executed after the close — or positions left open at the end of the season — do not count toward the score.

    * Every trader may deposit only **once per account** during the competition. Any account caught making additional deposits to trade will be reset to a 0 score and lose prize eligibility.

    * If you get liquidated and re-deposit, only your previous score is reset to 0.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Volume floor">
    * Trader volume floor: each national trader must reach at least \$300,000 in trading volume during the competition.
    * Side event volume floor: total season trading volume must reach \$1B for the prize pool to activate, and each national team must hit a team total of at least \$1,000,000 to be eligible for event rewards. Teams that fall short lose country-score contribution and prize-pool eligibility, but remain visible on the leaderboard with a "Not Qualified" badge.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Tiebreaker">
    If two teams finish with equal net realized PnL, the tiebreakers apply in order:

    1. Higher total qualifying volume during the season window.
    2. Higher win rate (percentage of closed positions that were profitable).
    3. Lower maximum drawdown during the season window.

    If all three are equal, the prize is split evenly between the tied teams.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## MVP eligibility

The MVP Award (\$10,000) goes to the top-performing participant across all national traders.

* **Minimum trading volume:** \$1,000,000 (no award if not met)
* **No nationality restriction:** open to participants from both Korea and Japan
* **Judging metrics:** trading volume and total PnL

## Anti-manipulation

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Wash trading">
    Wash trading — placing offsetting trades across related accounts to create artificial volume or PnL — is a disqualifying violation. 0x1 detects it via on-chain address clustering and order-correlation analysis. Any account with statistically significant wash-trading patterns is immediately disqualified, with no refund of entry fees or accrued rewards.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Leaderboard manipulation">
    Coordinating with another team or country to artificially inflate or suppress standings (for example, intentionally taking losses in exchange for off-platform compensation to boost a rival team's score) is a disqualifying violation.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Disqualification

<Warning>
  When an account is disqualified, all of its contributions are removed 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 the disqualification notice.
</Warning>

The following are disqualifying violations:

* Double-registration of country eligibility.
* Wash trading, as defined above.
* Coordinated leaderboard manipulation.
* Deliberate, repeated breaches of the leverage cap on scored trades.
* Use of exploits, bugs, or API abuse on Aster to produce artificially favorable fills.
* Violating Aster's own terms of service in a way that affects on-chain data integrity.
* Making additional deposits to trade during the competition, except after a liquidation. (After a liquidation, the previous score is reset to 0 and re-scoring begins.)

<Note>
  0x1 and Aster have final authority over disqualification decisions in Season 1. As governance matures, future seasons will move toward a more decentralized dispute-resolution process.
</Note>