How to play Ticker Legend

• One score. The sum of percent changes decides the ranking. Your order prediction adds a small bonus and breaks near-ties.
• Shared universe. Coins are not exclusive — any number of players can hold the same coin, so the field can scale to any size.
• Neutral ranking. You're measured against other players, not against zero. A −11.6% week still beats a −16.7% week.
• Free to play. No entry fees, prize pools or cash payouts. You compete for rank, points and season standing.
• Public weekly leagues. One open contest per week, shared by everyone.

Each contest runs a 60-hour entry window, locks Wednesday at 12:00 ET, and scores for exactly 7 days. The next contest locks the moment this one settles, so one price snapshot per week serves as both the end price for one contest and the start price for the next — there's always a contest live and one open for entry.

Scoring starts at lock, never at entry — so entering late on Wednesday morning gives no price advantage over entering on Monday.

A roster is a starting lineup of 6 different coins — exactly 2 from each of three tiers at lock — plus a bench of up to 4 wildcard coins from any tier. This keeps picks non-exclusive and skill-driven while stopping the field from collapsing into six volatile small caps.

Eligibility screen. A coin enters the universe only if it's priced by at least 3 venues or index feeds, meets a minimum 30-day average daily volume (high enough that one trade can't move a 5-minute VWAP), has been listed for at least 90 days, and is not a stablecoin, wrapped or staked derivative, or leveraged token.

Universe freeze. The list and tier assignments are published Sunday night and frozen at Monday 00:00 ET for that contest. A coin that changes rank mid-contest keeps its original tier.

Roster rules. No duplicate coins across lineup and bench, and all 6 starters must be ranked best to worst (1–6) before the entry is accepted. The bench is optional and is not ranked.

Your 6 starters score; the bench waits. Once a day you can swap one bench coin into the lineup — the week plays like a fantasy football season, and each day is a new lineup decision.

How a swapped slot scores. Each lineup slot adds up the returns of every coin that held it, each measured only while it was starting. A coin's stint runs from the VWAP when it entered the lineup to the VWAP when it left it (or settle). Bench coins score nothing.

Worked example. You start ETH, bench SUI, and on Friday at 12:00 swap SUI in for ETH. ETH's −2.0% from Wednesday to Friday counts, then SUI's +4.0% from Friday to settle counts — the slot returns +2.0%. ETH's full-week move and SUI's moves before Friday do not count; only each coin's starting stint does.

Exceptions. A starter that is delisted or halted freezes at its last valid VWAP and can still be swapped out at that frozen price. A frozen bench coin cannot be swapped in. If a swap window's price can't be verified, every swap queued for that window is cancelled and you keep the swap for the next one.

Your final score is the sum of your six lineup slots' percent price changes plus a small bonus for predicting the finish order, rounded to two decimals. Each coin's return is floored at −100%.

Order points. Each coin earns max(0, 6 − |predicted rank − actual rank|) points, so the total runs from 18 (fully reversed) to 36 (perfect). A random order averages about 24.3. At weight 0.05 the bonus is 0.9 to 1.8 points, and the gap between a random guess and a perfect one is only about 0.6 points — small enough that a strong roster beats a strong guess in nearly every case. Order points are scored on your six opening starters' full-week returns, whether or not they were swapped out, so the prediction stays a single call made before the week starts.

In this example the returns sum to +10.1%, order points total 30, so the bonus is 1.5 and the final score is 11.6.

Tiebreakers, in order: higher final score at two decimals; more order points; higher return on the roster's single best starting stint; still tied — the players share the place.

Every coin is priced by a 5-minute volume-weighted average price (VWAP) taken from the median of at least three named feeds, so no single low-liquidity print can decide a week. Any single feed more than 2% from the median is discarded for that window.

Every league is free to enter and has no prize pool, rake or cash payout. You play for rank, season points and bragging rights — points have no cash value.

Each week every finisher earns season points by percentile, so a strong week counts the same in a field of 50 or 5,000.

Season points add up across weeks into the season standings and your lifetime skill rating. The Wallet is your points ledger: contest entries, season points awards and manual adjustments, with each settlement posting as one atomic batch. No money ever moves — no deposits, withdrawals, stablecoin balances or bank links.

• Live top-20% line. The leaderboard shows your rank against the top-20% cutoff, so the daily question is whether you're above the line.
• Per-coin contribution. See each coin's running return and share of your roster score — which pick is carrying or sinking you.
• Alerts. Push notifications when you cross the top-20% line, take or lose the lead, or one of your coins moves more than 10% in a day.
• Result card. A shareable card at settlement with your final rank, best pick and order-call accuracy.
• Skill rating. A lifetime percentile and season points across contests.
• Beginner lanes. Players with fewer than 5 completed contests enter beginner-flagged leagues, so new players aren't matched against experienced ones.