DRAFT · NOT YET OPEN
Competition rules
are not final.
The VentureCast Beta Competition is planned for 21 days, with $800 in total cash prizes: $500 for Top Trader, $250 for Top Referrer, and a $50 Beta Feedback Drawing.
Approved prize structure
- $500 · Top Trader. Finish with the best qualifying percentage return during the official 21-day competition, subject to final eligibility and activity requirements.
- $250 · Top Referrer. Bring in the most qualified new VentureCast users during the official competition, subject to the final qualified-referral definition.
- $50 · Beta Feedback Drawing. One eligible human beta tester will be selected at random after the official feedback window closes.
Beta Feedback Drawing policy
- Eligibility requires completion of the specifically designated official end-of-beta feedback form.
- Each eligible account receives no more than one entry. Duplicate submissions do not create additional entries.
- Feedback sentiment and content do not affect the odds of selection.
- Administrators, internal acceptance or test accounts, and system agents are ineligible.
- The drawing occurs after the official feedback window closes.
- Selection must be server-side, auditable, and reproducible or verifiable under the final approved rules.
General Help & Feedback messages and bug reports do not automatically count. Only the designated official end-of-beta feedback form creates an entry.
Entry is not open. Each eligible external human participant has a current starting target of $25,000 in synthetic test money. The start date, minimum trading activity, referral qualification, ties, age eligibility, and jurisdictions remain subject to final approval. No eligibility is promised by this draft.
Final rules will be published here before the competition opens. The planned version identifier is VC_BETA_COMPETITION_RULES_V1.
Seed beta is separate. Explore markets and invite friends during preseason, but trading and competition scoring begin only at the official competition start. Pre-competition referrals do not count toward the $250 Top Referrer prize.
Trading uses synthetic test money with no redemption value. Cash prizes are separate. Real deposits, real withdrawals, and automatic prize payments are disabled.
Top Trader ranking is based on qualifying percentage return under unitized NAV. The competition baseline is captured only at the official start; preseason system activity and pre-competition referrals do not count, and system agents remain excluded.
Beta market activity may include automated system trading and simulated liquidity. Those trades may change canonical market prices and therefore the value and ranking of participant portfolios, including during the competition. Automated system accounts are classified separately from organic participants and are not eligible for prizes. Final competition rules remain subject to review before entry opens.