Rewards
The trading competition every trader on Arcantis is automatically entered into.
Every 30 days, the 50 wallets that traded the most on Arcantis split a reward pool. That pool is funded by the 10% slice of every token's mandatory fee (see Fees & tax), so it fills up from ordinary trading across the whole platform.
You don't sign up. Trading is entry.
How you're ranked
By trading volume over the season — how much USDC you moved buying and selling. Not what you hold, not how early you were, not profit or loss. Just volume.
Ranks 1-3 take a clearly larger share than the rest of the top 50, so the top of the table stays worth competing for rather than flattening into everyone getting roughly the same.
Watching the standings
The Rewards page shows the live leaderboard. Connect your wallet and, if you're in the top 50, your own rank is highlighted.
Two things to keep in mind:
- It's provisional. It recalculates continuously as trades come in and can change right up until the season closes.
- It's not final until the season closes and the results are published on-chain.
Getting paid
Once a season closes:
- Claim within 7 days — you choose when, and you pay the gas for your own claim.
- Miss the window — it's sent to you automatically instead.
Nobody's reward is ever forfeited for forgetting. The 7-day window is about who pays the gas and when, not whether you get paid.
Claiming is a single transaction. Behind the scenes it uses a Merkle proof — a compact cryptographic receipt proving your wallet is on the winners list without needing the whole list on-chain. The app fetches yours automatically; you just press Claim.
Past seasons
The Rewards page keeps every closed season browsable: final rankings, total pool size, and whether each winner claimed or was auto-paid. Expand any season to see it.
The format can change
Ranking by 30-day trading volume is a deliberate choice for this season, not a permanent rule. A future season could rank by something else entirely — longest hold, for instance — without changing anything about how claiming works.
Each season's page always states which metric it used, so a past season stays readable on its own terms.