WEEX AI Trading Hackathon Rules & Guidelines

Finals Participation Structure

The Finals adopt the BUIDL structure as the official competition unit. A BUIDL may consist of either an individual participant or a team, and each qualified BUIDL will receive an dedicated official competition trading account provided by WEEX.

To ensure fairness and standardized evaluation:

• Each participant may join only one BUIDL
• Cross-team participation or account sharing is strictly prohibited

Finalist Qualification Sources

• Top two teams from each Early Bird group
• First-place team from each Forked Entry group

Competition Timeline

• Start: February 9, 20:00 (UTC+8)
• End: February 23, 20:00 (UTC+8)

Award Categories

Ranking Championship Award

Final rankings are determined based on cumulative Profit and Loss (PNL) performance.

The overall champion will receive the grand prize — the legendary Bentley Bentayga S, with the award ceremony taking place in Dubai.

Best AI Strategy Innovation - Hubble AI Special Award

This award is determined through expert committee evaluation based on submitted AI logs and strategy documentation. The strategy demonstrating the highest level of technical innovation and AI capability will be selected.

Best Risk Management - Tencent Cloud Special Award

Among all profitable participants, rankings will be determined using a composite scoring system based on:

• Sharpe Ratio ranking (higher is better)
• Maximum Drawdown ranking (lower is better)

The participant with the lowest combined ranking score will receive the award.

Most Popularity Award

The team that receives the highest number of audience likes during the final voting period (February 9–February 28).

Competition Funding Structure

Each finalist BUIDL will receive 10,000 USDT in official competition trading funds provided by WEEX.

Funding Usage Rules

• Competition funds cannot be deposited, withdrawn, or transferred
• Funds may only be used within the designated competition account
• All trading losses during the competition will be covered by WEEX

Performance Calculation

• Finals performance is evaluated independently from Preliminary results
• Trading profits generated during the competition are used solely for ranking evaluation and cannot be withdrawn

Trading & Technical Rules

To ensure technical integrity and consistent evaluation standards, all participants must comply with the following execution requirements:

Trading Execution Rules

• All trades must be executed via the WEEX OpenAPI
• Only designated futures trading pairs are permitted
• Maximum leverage limit: 20×
• Approved Trading Pairs: cmt_btcusdt, cmt_ethusdt, cmt_solusdt, cmt_dogeusdt, cmt_xrpusdt, cmt_adausdt, cmt_bnbusdt, cmt_ltcusdt

Strategy Operation Rules

• Manual intervention (including manually starting or stopping strategies) is strictly prohibited
• Prolonged inactivity exceeding 8 hours without valid AI logs will be considered non-compliant
• Each BUIDL is allowed only one strategy modification window between February 16 – February 18

Market Evaluation Standards

The competition operates under real market order book conditions. Final PNL calculations exclude trading fees, funding rates, slippage, and other transaction costs to ensure standardized comparison.

AI Strategy Compliance & Log Submission Requirements

AI Strategy Compliance Standards

Artificial Intelligence serves as the core qualification requirement of the Finals. All participating strategies must demonstrate genuine machine intelligence rather than static automation or rule-based execution.

Core AI Implementation Requirements

Participating strategies must incorporate AI as a primary decision-making component. AI-generated outputs must materially influence trading execution and cannot function solely as visualization or secondary analytical tools.

Recognized AI implementations must demonstrate:

• Strong generalization capability across diverse market environments
• Adaptive reasoning under dynamic data conditions
• Strategy-generation capability beyond fixed rule sets, static parameters, or single-task predictive models (including LLM-based architectures)

Strategies relying solely on predefined conditions, manual rules, or historical data curve fitting will not be recognized as compliant AI solutions.

Traditional quantitative models, statistical methods, or technical indicators may be used only when AI remains a substantive and functional component of the trading decision pipeline.

AI Compliance Evaluation

Final determination of AI compliance will be conducted by the Competition Review Committee, based on:

• Technical implementation review
• Submitted AI decision logs
• Observed live trading behavior

AI Log Submission & Transparency Requirements

All finalist teams must submit complete AI decision logs via the official Upload AI Log interface. Failure to submit logs, or submission of incomplete or inconsistent logs, may result in disqualification.

Log Transparency Standards

AI logs must accurately reflect strategy decision logic and must not be masked, obfuscated, or modified.

• Input and Output Fields
  • Must contain authentic model interaction data
  • Will remain confidential and used exclusively for internal review
• Explanation Field
  • Will be publicly displayed on the competition page

The review committee reserves the right to reproduce strategies and conduct consistency validation using submitted log data. Any falsified, tampered, or inconsistent logs will be treated as rule violations.

Order-Level Logging & Execution Workflow

Each executed order must have a corresponding AI log entry serving as decision evidence.

Order ID Consistency Requirement

• The OrderId recorded in the AI Log must exactly match the exchange-generated order identifier.
• Strategy systems must follow the complete operational workflow:

Decision → Order Placement → Log Submission

Logging Requirements When Orders Are Executed

Participants must:

1. Execute the order through the exchange
2. Obtain the returned OrderId
3. Upload the corresponding AI Log containing that OrderId within 1 minute

Logging Requirements When No Order Is Executed

When a strategy outputs hold, observation, or no-trade decisions:

• Participants may immediately submit the corresponding AI Log as a decision record
• During inactive trading periods, AI Logs must continue to be uploaded according to the strategy’s predefined operational frequency to demonstrate uninterrupted automated execution

Finals Ecosystem Resource Pool

All finalist teams gain access to a global support ecosystem valued at $1,000,000, including:

Cloud & Infrastructure Support

• Cloud service credits from AWS, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud
• Sponsored trading and infrastructure credits provided by Hubble AI and EveryX

Institutional-Grade Data Resources

• CoinGecko Premium API services
• Cryptoracle quantitative factor libraries

Ranking Awards

Special Rewards

*Ranking awards and special awards will not be granted to the same participant, with ranking awards taking priority. If a winner of a special award has already received a ranking award, the special award will be granted to the next eligible participant within the same award category.

*WXT unlocking rules for all competitions:

Legal & Compliance Terms

• Participants must comply with all applicable laws and regulations in their jurisdiction
• All participants must be at least 18 years old and complete required compliance verification
• In case of discrepancies between language versions, the English version shall prevail
• WEEX reserves the final right to interpret, modify, or update competition rules