Season 1 · scored against live Perps.com data

The perps trading challenge.

Three levels. Educate: learn the mechanics. Compete: make weekly funding and open-interest calls, scored against the live tape. Impact: build the tools and briefs the perps economy needs. No real money, no trading — skill and research only.

Six challenges, three levels

Educate → Compete → Impact.

Educate

📘 Perps 101 Quiz

Ten questions on funding, margin, liquidation and index pricing. Pass to unlock Compete.

Educate

📡 Read the Funding Radar

Explain a live Hyperliquid–Binance funding spread from Perps.com in 200 words. Best explainers are published.

Compete

🎯 Weekly Funding Call

Predict which top-20 market carries the highest annualized funding at Friday 00:00 UTC. Scored against the live tape.

Compete

📈 Open-Interest Mover

Call the largest 7-day OI change among tracked markets. Leaderboard resets weekly.

Impact

🛠️ HIP-3 Launch Brief

Write the pre-flight risk brief for a real builder-deployed market: oracle, liquidity, parameters.

Impact

🤖 Build on the API

Ship a tool on the free Perps.com / PerpAgent MCP endpoints. Best builds get directory placement.

This week's tape

Make your call against these numbers.

Top markets by volume with annualized funding, open interest, and 24h move — live from Perps.com. Weekly calls close Friday 00:00 UTC.

MarketFunding APROpen interest24h
BTC+11.0%$2.52B+9.20%
ETH+11.0%$2.02B+17.19%
HYPE+11.0%$1.67B+21.05%
SOL+11.0%$392.0M+9.16%
ZEC+11.0%$255.1M+6.46%
XRP+11.0%$141.5M+19.71%
PUMP+11.0%$105.1M+16.99%
LIT+41.9%$107.9M+15.62%
Level 1 · Educate

Perps 101 — three sample questions.

1. What keeps a perpetual future's price tethered to its index?
2. If the perp trades above the index, who pays funding?
3. Your liquidation price is the level where…
Read the primer

Join

Enter Season 1.

Free. You get the weekly call sheet, the leaderboard, and the Impact briefs. Sponsors and venues can back a level — ask about Season 1 sponsorship.

Register

You're in. The first call sheet arrives before Friday.

Educational market intelligence only — not investment, legal, tax, or trading advice. Perpetual futures are leveraged and can lose money rapidly. No prizes constitute trading advice; challenge calls are research exercises only.