The trading ladder has ended. It ran from 11 September; prizes won on scored days stand as published below. Every UTC day it ran, the three wallets with the most net buying each receive one drone, minted to them by us — we burn the 25,000 $BITBOTS each one costs. No $BITBOTS is ever paid as a prize. Days scored before 11 September were the scoring being tested in public and award nothing.

The weekly Machine is different: the winner is marked each week and the Machine is minted only when series 2 opens, and counsel reviews these rules before series 2 mints anything for this promotion. A prize for trading is a promotion, not a game: it runs only where it is lawful for you, and it may be changed or stopped.

WEEKLY RESULT. In none of the four competition weeks (10–16 Sep, 17–23 Sep, 24–30 Sep, 1–3 Oct) did the market cap reach $250K, let alone hold it for 48 hours, so no series-2 Machine was earned and none is owed. The pool's own price history shows its highest fully diluted value on any day in the period was about $188K (10 Sep). A week that earns nothing does not roll over.

Net buying means what you bought minus what you sold that day. Sell before midnight UTC and you are skipped. Weeks: 10–16 Sep, 17–23 Sep, 24–30 Sep, 1–3 Oct. Drones are minted to you within seven days; Machines are minted when series 2 opens, and counsel reviews these rules before series 2 mints any.

You do not have to trade for one. In the Scrapyard, every week from 17 September for four weeks, the owner with the most drone wins is marked for an Apprentice Machine — won by fighting, not by buying. Both prizes come from the same series-2 block, and both depend on series 2 opening at all.

1. Promoter. The operators of bitbots.fun ("we"). This promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by pair.fund, Robinhood, PAIR, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet or Palantir, and is not affiliated with any of them.
2. Period. 10 September 2026 06:00 UTC to 3 October 2026 16:00 UTC, scored by UTC calendar day. We may extend, shorten, pause or end it at any time by updating this page; the version of this page at 00:00 UTC on a given day is the rule for that day.
3. Eligibility. You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) and it must be lawful for you to hold this token and to take part. It is void where prohibited. Wallets listed as excluded in the published configuration (the operator's and any team wallet, added before it trades) cannot win.
4. How it works. Entry is by trading $BITBOTS on pair.fund in the ordinary way; there is no separate entry, no fee to us, and no purchase is required beyond the trades you choose to make. The score is net buying in USD per UTC day: value bought minus value sold, attributed to the wallet that sent each transaction (where a smart wallet's operation or a relayed order is submitted by a bundler or solver, to the wallet the trade was made for, not to the relayer), measured from the pools' own fills as recorded on chain. There is no random element: the highest scores win.
5. Prizes. Daily: one drone NFT to each of the top three eligible wallets that bought at least $25 net that day (a minimum added on 16 September 2026 and applying from that day forward; days already scored stand as published, and a day where nobody reaches it awards no drone), minted by us to the winning wallet (we burn the 25,000 $BITBOTS the mint costs). Weekly: the top eligible wallet by net buying over each competition week (10–16 Sep, 17–23 Sep, 24–30 Sep, 1–3 Oct, UTC days; hold-at-close applies to each day) is marked for one series-2 Machine NFT, up to four in total, minted when series 2 opens. A Machine is earned ONLY in a week where pair.fund's market cap reaches and holds a stated level for 48 hours; a week in which no level was held for 48 hours awards no Machine, and it does not roll over to another week. The tier is the highest level held that week: Apprentice $250K, Challenger $500K, Veteran $750K, Founder $1M. Four is the cap for the whole promotion; any not earned returns to the series-2 public count. Prizes are game pieces with no cash value, no wage in the case of drones, and no guaranteed value of any kind; they cannot be exchanged for cash or substituted at your request. A drone holds no share of any fee. A Machine's wage is a share of trading fees and can be nothing.
6. Verification and delivery. A day's winner must still hold at least its net for the day at 00:00 UTC; otherwise the next wallet moves up. Daily prizes are minted within seven days of the day's close and recorded on this page with the transaction. Milestone prizes are minted only when series 2 opens, which depends on conditions published on The Plan and is not guaranteed to happen.
7. Disqualification. Wash trading, trading between wallets under common control, bots that split trades across wallets to game the score, or any manipulation of the pools disqualifies every wallet involved, in our sole judgement, at any time including after an award. Attempts to manipulate the market may also be unlawful where you live.
8. Taxes and law. Any tax on a prize is yours. You are responsible for compliance with the laws that apply to you. We give no advice.
9. Risk. $BITBOTS is a meme coin. Its price can fall to zero, including while you are trading for a prize. The pools are thin: your own trades move the price. Nothing here is an inducement to buy or hold; if you trade only to win a prize you may lose more than the prize is worth.
10. Liability and governing terms. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from the promotion, from delays or failures of the chain, the venue, the data feeds or this site, or from the value of any prize. The Terms govern; if anything here conflicts with them, they win. Where they name a governing law and forum, that applies here.
11. Privacy. Only public wallet addresses and public transactions are used and shown. We collect nothing else for this promotion.
12. Counsel. These rules are reviewed by counsel before any prize is awarded under them. They may be revised on that review.