Bybit just dropped a TradFi Trading Tools Arena running through September 12, 2026, with a combined 100,000 USDT prize pool spread across three competition tracks. According to PR Newswire, the event is built around two of the exchange's automation products — TradFi Combo, an automated bot-trading tool, and Copy TradFi, which lets you mirror Master Traders or become one yourself. With U.S. earnings season heating up for names like NVIDIA, Salesforce, CrowdStrike, Snowflake, Applied Materials, Synopsys, and Broadcom, the timing is no accident.
How the arena actually works
Here is why that matters: the entire event is designed to push you toward hands-on automation rather than discretionary clicking. Three tracks give you different entry points — a Lucky Draw, an Individual Trading Volume Leaderboard, and a Team Trading Volume Leaderboard. TradFi Combo handles the execution side so your preset strategies keep firing around the clock, which matters when earnings reports drop outside normal hours. Copy TradFi flips the model — you can follow experienced Master Traders, or run your own strategy and attract Followers, essentially turning your track record into a product.
What you can actually trade through it
The underlying asset universe is wider than most people realize. Bybit TradFi now supports CFD trading across over 500 assets, including major tech stocks, commodities like gold and oil, forex pairs, and global indices — all settled in USDT from a single account. A day after the arena announcement, Bybit also confirmed it expanded TradFi Perpetual Contracts to over 200 curated listings, spanning equities, ETFs, precious metals, indices, oil, and even pre-IPO names such as Unitree Robotics and Moonshot AI (the company behind the Kimi AI assistant). That piece is what caught my eye — you can build positions around AI and robotics exposure before these companies list publicly, which is something traditional brokerages simply do not offer in one account.
Practical steps before you jump in
Let us break this down into what you actually need to do. First, eligibility is not universal — Bybit TradFi is not available to residents of the European Economic Area, among other regional restrictions, so check the terms before you register. The service runs through the official Bybit app and website, is powered by Infra Capital under a Mauritius FSC license, and settles everything in USDT with leverage up to 100x on perpetual contracts. If you have been waiting for a structured reason to test automated execution against real earnings volatility, this is a reasonable way to do it — just do not skip reading the full rules on each leaderboard track, because scoring mechanics tend to differ across individual, team, and lucky draw formats.