Know people who follow crypto prices, esports, or sports? Unhedged’s new referral competition gives you a way to introduce them to prediction markets and compete for a share of $10,000 in prizes.
The competition runs for 60 days, from September 12 to November 11, 2026, with prizes for the top 30 eligible referrers. First place receives $1,500. The official referral leaderboard shows the competition dates, countdown, standings, and estimated rewards.
Unhedged is a prediction market platform where users can trade on outcomes across crypto, esports, and sports. This competition rewards people who bring active traders to the platform, with rankings based on their referrals’ eligible trading activity.
How the $10,000 prize pool is split
Final place Prize
1st $1,500
2nd $1,000
3rd $750
4th–10th $400 each
11th–20th $250 each
21st–30th $145 each
That puts $6,750 of the prize pool outside the top three, with paid places extending to 30th. Prizes are subject to final eligibility review, and unfilled prize places remain undistributed.
What determines your rank?
Your score combines two factors:
- Active referrals: 20% of the scoring weight. Your share of all eligible active referrals in the competition.
- Referred trading volume: 80% of the scoring weight. Your share of all eligible USD trading volume generated by referrals in the competition.
An active referral is someone you directly invited who completes an eligible trade during the competition, after their referral has been attributed to you. Each person counts once across the full 60 days. Their eligible trading volume continues to accumulate throughout that period, including across calendar months.
For example, if you account for 10% of the competition’s active referrals and 5% of its referred trading volume, your score is 6 points: 2 from referrals and 4 from volume.
Those shares change as participants’ totals grow, so your score and estimated prize can move throughout the competition. Both the number of active people you bring and their trading activity matter, with volume carrying the greater weight.
How to participate
- Create an account or sign in at Unhedged.
- Open your referral dashboard and copy your personal referral link.
- Enable “Show on leaderboards” in your account settings to participate in the rankings.
- Share your link with new users interested in the markets available on Unhedged. They should use it when signing up so their referral is recorded.
- Follow your position on the referral leaderboard as your invitees complete eligible trades.
If you write about crypto or run a community, a useful introduction could walk readers through a market you follow: what the outcome means, how the market resolves, and where to find its rules. Give people enough context to decide whether they want to participate.
When are prizes paid?
After the competition closes, final standings go through eligibility review and payout approval. Approved prizes are credited to winners’ Unhedged USD balances. Self-referrals, self-trades, and ineligible referral activity are excluded.
Competition prizes are separate from the regular referral commission program, which has its own terms in the referral dashboard. Participation is subject to Unhedged’s terms and eligibility requirements.
Ready to take part? Get your referral link and check the official competition leaderboard for the exact UTC deadline and current standings.
