Trading Competitions This Week: 12 to 18 October 2026

TraderComps is tracking 77 live campaigns this week. The two biggest prize pools are both team competitions, 18 campaigns end by Sunday 18 October, and many of the new launches are about stocks, not just crypto.

The Biggest Live Prize Pools

• Gate WCTC S9: up to 6,000,000 USDT. Registration runs to 26 October, and the competition itself runs from 26 October to 25 November, ranked on weighted volume across spot, futures, stocks, options, event contracts and CFDs. See every edition on the Gate WCTC series page.
• Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026: up to 5,000,000 USDT. Ends 28 October.
• MEXC Discover Your Wall Street DNA: $1,000,000 in rewards. A stocks campaign with deposit, tokenised-stock and stock-futures tasks. Ends 16 October.
• BTCC TOKEN2049 Trade to Win: a $1,000,000 prize pool including a Tesla Cybertruck. Ranked on cumulative futures volume. Ends 13 October.

New This Week

• Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 4: a one-week volume leaderboard on ZEC/USDC and USUAL/USDT, up to 400 BNB in token vouchers. Not open in the EEA. Ends 16 October.
• Binance Alpha STABLE Trading Competition: $200K worth of STABLE across two weekly rounds. Ends 23 October.
• Bybit ByPick Season 1: a free-to-play, points-based prediction game with a 100,000 USDT prize pool. Ends 31 October.
• Gate BTC vs. ETH: Trading Showdown: pick a team and trade its futures for a share of up to $30,000 in tokenised Intel stock. Ends 23 October.
• Kraken Pre-IPO Challenge: a month-long leaderboard on Kraken's pre-IPO perps for Oura and Moonshot, $10,000 USDG. Ends 6 November.
• Nika Finance GetCoded: 30 days of zero Nika fees on spot and perps for activated code holders.

Ending This Week

Crypto exchanges:

• Bitget CFD Championship Phase 16, 75,000 USDT, ends 12 October.
• MEXC BTC Carnival, $500,000 in rewards, ends 13 October.
• HTX Futures Points Contest, gold bars, XAUT, HTX and trial bonuses, ends 13 October.
• Bybit Stock Buzz: Trade Micron, up to 100,000 USDT, ends 14 October.
• MEXC Prediction Markets Lucky Claw, 500,000 USDT plus iPhones, ends 15 October.
• HTX New Crypto Futures Trading Contest, 1,000,000,000 HTX, ends 15 October.
• BingX Derive (DRV) zero-fee listing, ends 17 October.

DEXs and apps:

• edgeX x Arc Genesis, up to 500,000 USDC trading pool, ends 16 October.
• MetaMask Money Sweepstakes, up to $20,000 mUSD, ends 15 October.

Stock trading apps (US only):

• SoFi Webull ACAT 3% match, up to $150,000, ends 15 October.
• Robinhood 3% match on transfers from Webull, ends 16 October.

Prop firms:

• FundedNext October 2026 monthly competition, $8,000 cash plus $1.21M in funded accounts, ends 15 October.

What Stands Out

Stocks are now a normal part of crypto exchange campaigns. Bybit is running a Micron perp race around earnings, MEXC has a $1,000,000 stocks campaign, Gate pays a team prize in tokenised Intel stock, and HTX's "new crypto futures" contest includes stock perps. If you trade stocks, the stocks page lists every venue and campaign in one place.

US brokers are competing for transfers out of Webull. Robinhood, Public and SoFi all launched 3% matches on transfers from Webull in the same week. SoFi caps its match at $150,000, Public at $1M, and Robinhood's is uncapped. Read the holding periods before you move anything. All trading bonuses.

Before you join anything here, read how to check a trading campaign before you join. Every listing links to its official rules and shows who can take part.

This roundup is information, not financial advice. Trading carries risk, and campaign terms are set by each venue.