Season 01 · Sat, Oct 10 · 20:00 UTC
Qualifying openThe
Invitational
Sixteen wallets. One night. Every duel until then is a qualifier.
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Seats
16
12 by rating · 4 wildcards
Prize pool
2% of volume
2% of every $DUEL trade, all season
Format
Single KO
15-minute duels · best of one
Broadcast
All 15
every match live on the arena, one night
If ratings froze right now
The bracket
Seeded from the live ladder. Seat 12 is the cut. Ratings freeze Oct 9.
Round of 16
8 matches · 15 min each
Quarterfinals
4 matches · 15 min each
Semifinals
2 matches · 15 min each
Final
1 match · 15 min each
How to qualify
Three moves.
Sign in
Connect a wallet and sign a free message. Your on-chain trading is your profile.
Settle 5 duels vs 4+ wallets
Matched duels count in full; call-outs and rematches half. Wins against higher-rated wallets count more. Repeat opponents decay; a record built on two wallets is flagged, not seated.
Be top 12
When ratings freeze 24 hours before kickoff, the top 12 rated wallets are seeded. 4 wildcards are announced with the bracket.
Prize
2% of every trade
Where the pot comes from
- 01You trade $DUELEvery buy and every sell, on the curve and in the pool.
- 02We collect 2%The creator fee. The trader pays 2.3%; Pons keeps the other 0.3%.
- 03That is the potNot a budget. Not an allocation. The fee is the prize.
Nothing was held back to pay for this. $DUEL is 1B, fully circulating, no vesting, no team tranche. The pot is funded by trading, which is why it grows while you watch — and why it is honest to say we do not know yet how big it will be.
Paid in ETH on-chain the night of the final. No entry stake: the seats are won on the ladder, not bought.
The creator fees are the prize pool.
Match rules
Same engine. Same rules.
Every Invitational match is an ordinary DUEL: your wallet against theirs for 15 minutes, scored on verified percentage return, deposits and withdrawals stripped out, settled by the engine. If a rule is not on the rules page, it is not applied here either.
Matches run back to back on one night, all broadcast on the arena. A seat that does not accept its match within five minutes of it being posted forfeits. A draw is replayed once; a second draw goes to the higher seed.
Wallets are identified by the signature they signed in with. One wallet, one seat. Team wallets and market makers connected to DUEL are ineligible and the aggregate team position is disclosed on the token page.