Sovryn Perpetual Futures are launching on mainnet today, and to celebrate, we’re kicking things off with a week-long trading competition!

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Registration for the trading competition closed yesterday. For all the entrants that have been selected to participate, the competition will start today at 12:00pm UTC. 

The top 3 traders will win a share of 0.5 BTC plus a share of the profit/loss that the AMM incurs during the competition. 

An email outlining the process to join the competition has already been sent to entrants.

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Perpetual Futures on Sovryn

A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future. Unlike the spot market, you do not buy the asset itself. Instead, you trade a contract based on the price movement of the underlying asset. 

A perpetual futures contract is like a futures contract but with no expiry date. You can hold an open position as long as you like. Perpetual futures use an incentive mechanism, called a Funding Rate, that causes the contract price to closely track the spot price.

Trading perpetual futures on Sovryn, you can gain exposure to market movements in either direction, so you have the potential to profit regardless of whether price is in an uptrend or a downtrend. And, because you can use leverage when trading perpetual futures, you can open long or short trading positions that are larger than your trading account balance.

The Sovryn Perpetuals AMM will enable you to use your BTC to gain long or short exposure to other assets, while transacting only in BTC. This opens the possibility for trading on basically any asset that has a publicly trackable price using a perpetual futures contract. We’re starting with a BTC/USD perpetual, with margin in BTC, but we’ll be adding more assets as this product matures. We hope to have a gold perpetual soon. Imagine that... trading gold with your bitcoin... take that Peter Schiff! 

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Advantages of Perpetual Futures on Sovryn

Decentralized perpetual futures on Sovryn have a number of advantages over perpetual futures on centralized exchanges or other DeFi platforms:

• Traders can participate in leveraged DeFi trading which is non-custodial, decentralized, and private (doesn’t require KYC).
• Traders can get leveraged exposure to other assets without selling their BTC. E.g. you could go long on a BNBUSD perpetual future, with margin in BTC. If the BNB prices goes up, you earn BTC rather than BNB or USD. 
• The Sovryn Perpetuals AMM has a unique capital-efficient design. It can offer lower slippage to traders than other DeFi perpetual AMMs with comparable capital reserves.

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Details for Competition Entrants:

• As mentioned above, the competition will start today, 12 July, at 12:00 PM UTC. 
• You can access the Perpetual Futures Competition here.
• We strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the competition trading interface before the competition begins. You can do so by visiting the Perpetual Futures wiki page or refreshing your trading skills on the Perpetual Futures testnet interface.
• The competition takes place on the BNB Smartchain mainnet. Sovryn provides a user interface to bridge RBTC from Rootstock, or BTC directly from the Bitcoin network, to BNB Smartchain and back. Bridging BTC can take up to 2 hours. This can be done ahead of time. You do not need to wait for the competition to begin.

• Head on over to the Perpetuals page, connect your wallet, and click on “Fund account”. You will be able to bridge either RBTC or BTC directly following the instructions in the wiki. 

• Should you encounter any issues while trading:

• Consult the Perpetual Futures trading competition FAQ 
• If your question is not answered there, you may submit feedback or report an issue here.

• The total prize money is 0.5 BTC plus a share of the profit/loss that the AMM incurs during the competition. Winners will be contacted via email, and the prizes will be distributed a few days after the competition ends.

• Example: if the top 3 traders achieved a P&L of 200%, 100% & 15% respectively, and the AMM made neither a gain nor a loss, the best trader would receive 0.31 BTC (200/(200+100+15) * 0.5 BTC).

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Happy trading & Stay Sovryn

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