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title: "Bybit’s 100K USDT TradFi Challenge Rewards Top Teams"
date: 2026-08-13
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# Bybit’s 100K USDT TradFi Challenge Rewards Top Teams

Bybit opened its TradFi Trading Tools Arena on August 13, 2026, putting 100,000 USDT behind three reward tracks. The campaign closes September 12 and is timed to the U.S. corporate earnings calendar.

## The Big Picture

- Bybit’s TradFi Trading Tools Arena runs from August 13 to September 12, 2026, across three reward tracks.
- The Team Trading Volume Leaderboard carries 60,000 USDT, the largest of the three prize pools.
- Copy TradFi Master Traders must reach 3,000,000 USDx in team volume and keep at least 20 followers.
- Bybit TradFi lists over 500 assets for CFD trading from one USDT-denominated account.
- Earnings reports from NVIDIA, Broadcom, Salesforce and CrowdStrike are expected inside the campaign window.

## Bybit points most of the prize money at team volume

Bybit split the pool unevenly, and the split says more about the campaign than the headline figure does. The Team Trading Volume Leaderboard holds **60,000 USDT** and admits only **Copy TradFi Master Traders**. The Individual Trading Volume Leaderboard holds 30,000 USDT, and a Lucky Draw covers the remaining 10,000 USDT.

| Track | Prize pool | Who qualifies |
|---|---|---|
| Lucky Draw | 10,000 USDT | Registered users who hit trading volume milestones |
| Individual Trading Volume Leaderboard | 30,000 USDT | 300,000 USDx minimum volume, top 100 rewarded |
| Team Trading Volume Leaderboard | 60,000 USDT | 3,000,000 USDx team volume plus 20 unique followers, top 50 teams rewarded |

The individual board counts volume from a Main Account and all linked Subaccounts across both Copy TradFi and TradFi Combo, and rewards go to the top 100 certified best performing participants. Team qualification sets a far higher bar, and payouts there split between the Master Trader and the followers who traded under them, spread across the top 50 teams.

> Bybit put 100,000 USDT behind its TradFi Trading Tools Arena, and 60,000 of it sits in one track: Copy TradFi Master Traders who clear 3,000,000 USDx and hold 20+ followers.  
>   
> Read the split and what [@Bybit\_Official](https://x.com/Bybit_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ‘s buying is obvious. Distribution. Runs to Sept 12. [pic.twitter.com/h9t718ZvMC](https://t.co/h9t718ZvMC)
> 
> — CoinLaw (@coinlaw\_io) [August 13, 2026](https://x.com/coinlaw_io/status/2087887976256958703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 ## Two automation products carry the campaign

Bybit put **TradFi Combo**, an automated bot-trading tool, and **Copy TradFi**, which lets a user act as a Master Trader or a Follower, at the center of the Arena. Volume from both products counts toward the leaderboards. In [the announcement](https://announcements.bybit.com/en/article/tradfi-trading-tools-arena-master-the-markets-with-tradfi-trading-tools--artf1505c1cb943/), Bybit said its bots and copy trading tools “**allow positions to be executed around the clock and according to preset strategies, reducing reliance on manual monitoring.**“

Neither tool arrived with this campaign. Bybit’s [Combo bot hub](https://coinlaw.io/bybit-combo-bot-hub/) and its [AI trading skill marketplace](https://coinlaw.io/bybit-ai-skill-marketplace-earn-strategies/) already pointed users toward automated strategies. The Arena aims that same tooling at equity CFDs during a stretch when **NVIDIA**, **Salesforce**, **CrowdStrike**, **Snowflake**, **Applied Materials**, **Synopsys** and **Broadcom** are all expected to report.

## What the announcement leaves undefined?

The release sets out prize pools and qualification thresholds. It does not say how much any single participant receives, and Bybit has not published a per-rank reward table. Four gaps stand out:

- **What trading volume milestones unlock a Lucky Draw entry, and how many entries each one unlocks?**
- **How “certified best performing” gets determined on the individual leaderboard?**
- **How rewards are sized across the top 100 individuals and the top 50 teams?**
- **How a Master Trader’s share is calculated against the followers’ share?**

Traders who have already registered should confirm that every Subaccount is linked to the Main Account before volume starts accruing, because the **300,000 USDx** threshold counts the combined figure. Lucky Draw prizes only move once the campaign ends.

## Summing It Up

The structure routes most of the money toward participants who arrive with an audience. A Master Trader who satisfies the 20-follower rule pulls 20 more accounts into equity CFD trading on a crypto exchange, and [Bybit](https://coinlaw.io/bybit-statistics/) funds that introduction from the largest of its three pools. The trading thresholds point the same way: 300,000 USDx of volume inside a month is not a retail figure, and **3,000,000 USDx** paired with a follower base belongs to someone running this as a job.

Bybit ranks as the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, and its TradFi venue holds more than **500 CFD assets** covering technology stocks, gold, oil, forex pairs and global indices inside one USDT-denominated account. That reach is what makes an earnings calendar usable to a trader with no U.S. brokerage relationship. Access to traditional assets has become a competitive axis and a month-long incentive campaign is a cheap way to measure how many users want it.