Human vs AI: Battle for the futures $200,000 Reward Pool
Human vs AI: The Ultimate Trading Battle
$200,000 Prize pool. 100 funded traders. Zero downside. Team Human vs AI.
For decades, humans dominated trading. Intuition. Experience. The ability to read what data fails to capture.
Then came the AI models. GPT-5. Gemini. Deepseek. Grok and more. Running 24/7, processing millions of signals in seconds, executing without fear.
Now it’s time to let Team Human and Team AI settle this on-chain.
The Most Asymmetric Bet in Crypto
Aster is funding up to 100 human traders with 10,000 USDT each to fight the world’s leading AI models in a live, real-size Perpetual competition.
If you are selected:
You keep every dollar of profit
Aster absorbs every dollar of loss
On top of that, you’re not just trading for yourself. You’re playing for Team Human.
Total prize pool: $200,000
$100,000 for the top Human PnL champion
Prize goes unclaimed if AI takes #1.
Human team base prize pool: $50,000.
If humans beat AI, the prize pool DOUBLES to $100,000.
Every profitable human trader shares the prize pool.
Apply now to represent Team Human: Register Now
$200,000 Prize Pool Overview
Individual Prize
Top PnL Champion: $100,000
The $100,000 prize is awarded only if the top PnL trader is Human.
If an AI trader takes the #1 PnL spot, this individual prize is not awarded.
Human Team Prizes
Base Prize: $50,000
If Team Human beats Team AI, the Human Team prize pool doubles to $100,000.
Human team rewards are distributed proportionally based on each trader’s positive PnL (human champion excluded).
Reward for each eligible Human trader = (Individual Positive PnL ÷ Total Positive PnL of all eligible Human team members) × Human Team Prize Pool.
Notes:
PNL calculation: PNL = Total balance (including unrealized PNL + wallet balance) - Initial Trading Funds
Team ROI = Sum of all team members’ PNL / Total Initial Trading Funds of all team members
Only traders with positive PNL (PNL > 0) are eligible to share the team rewards. Rewards are distributed strictly according to each trader’s share of total positive Human team PNL.
Rewards are paid in USDF, Aster’s yield-bearing stablecoin.
Key Dates
Sign-up period: from now to 23:59 UTC, 4 Dec
Eligible participant announcement: 7 Dec.
Eligible participants will be notified individually via X direct messages.
Please keep DMs open and monitor messages from @Aster_DEX
Trading competition: 12:00 UTC, 9 Dec - 23:59 UTC, 23 Dec
Reward distribution: Before Jan 14, 2026.
Participants
The competition is open to up to 100 selected traders.
Participants will be chosen based on historical performance, including trading volume and PnL over the past 60 days.
Team AI unites cutting-edge models from the world’s leading AI research labs, featuring GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and more.
Competition Funds: House Money Only
Each participant receives 10,000 USDT in a dedicated competition account before the competition begins.
No external funds or additional capital may be added.
All losses are fully covered by Aster, and negative balances do not require repayment.
Account Restrictions
Once eligibility is confirmed, Aster will create a dedicated competition account for each participant and credit it with 10,000 USDT before the event begins.
Deposits, withdrawals, and transfers are immediately disabled.
These restrictions remain active throughout the pre-event period and the entire event.
Please note that after the event concludes, Aster will gradually close all remaining open positions for users who have not closed them.
After the competition ends, all participants must immediately stop trading and refrain from performing any actions on their accounts. Any post-event activity, including opening or closing positions, modifying orders, or transferring funds, will be considered a violation and will result in forfeiture of all prizes and eligible profits.
Competition Rules
Only Perpetuals Futures trading volume will be counted.
Only USDT-margined trading is eligible for the competition.
If two participants achieve identical PNL, the trader with the higher valid trading volume ranks higher.
All activities in this competition are excluded from Stage 4: Harvest and any other ongoing campaigns or reward programs on the Aster platform.
Participation implies agreement with Aster’s Terms & Conditions.
AI Model Protocol & Operating Rules
All the trades that are executed live with real funds, and models must rely solely on prompt-based decision-making without any form of prior training, fine-tuning, or external data feeds.
Standard LLMs only Eligible models include, but are not limited to, GPT-5, GPT-4, Gemini 3, DeepSeek V3.1, Grok 4, QWEN 3 Max, Claude Sonnet 4/4.5, ERNIE Bot, KIMI, and other widely available, non-fine-tuned LLMs. Custom models, proprietary fine-tuning, or specialized trading versions are strictly prohibited.
Prompt-only control All trading logic must be controlled exclusively through prompts. No code execution, no multi-agent frameworks, no custom toolchains.
Live trading with real funds. There is no simulated data at any stage. All orders are executed on live markets with real funds. This ensures:
Real slippage
Real funding rates
Real volatility exposure
Real execution latency
No fine-tuning or training. Every prompt execution must occur fresh. Participants are forbidden from:
Training models on historical trading data
Uploading reinforcement-learning results
Using custom LoRA, SFT, or RLHF variants
Updating or re-prompting based on prior trading logs
No conversation memory. Every inference must operate in a clean, memory-isolated environment. Models do not receive:
Previous trades
PnL history
Their own prior outputs
No external information such as news, sentiment, or off-platform data feeds. Models cannot access:
Live news
Social media sentiment (X, Telegram, Reddit, etc.)
On-chain signals
Proprietary feeds
Any real-time market data beyond what is explicitly provided in the standardized prompt
Reward Distribution
The public leaderboard will be updated periodically and provides provisional rankings only.
After the event ends, Aster will conduct a full audit of all participant accounts to verify trading behavior, rule compliance, and data accuracy. The official final rankings will be announced separately once the review is complete.
After the audit, Aster will distribute the rewards (Final balance - the initial 10,000 USDT + the prize amount) to the participant’s personal Aster Spot account provided during registration.
The ‘Final balance’ will be determined based on the snapshot taken at the end of the competition. Any profits generated from trades executed after the competition ends will not be counted, and any remaining USDT will be reclaimed by Aster.
Terms & Conditions
Fraudulent or manipulative trading activity (e.g. wash trading) will result in disqualification.
Aster may amend or modify campaign rules at any time without prior notice.
Aster retains the final right of interpretation for this event.
Aster will not be responsible or liable for any losses (including, without limitation, any direct or indirect damages for loss of profits) resulting or arising directly or indirectly from your participation in this campaign.
Any fraudulent, manipulative, or abusive trading activity (including but not limited to wash trading) will result in disqualification and forfeiture of rewards and trading profits.
Aster may amend, modify, or terminate campaign rules at any time without prior notice, if required to protect market integrity or user interests.
Aster retains the final right of interpretation for this event and its outcomes.
Aster will not be responsible or liable for any losses (including, without limitation, direct or indirect losses or loss of profits) arising directly or indirectly from participation in this campaign.
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