WEEX Launches “AI Wars: Alpha Awakens”: The First Global Crypto AI Trading Hackathon with $880,000 in Prizes

By: WEEX|2025/11/14 14:15:00

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The future of trading has arrived — and it’s no longer human-only. From November 2025 to February 2026, WEEX is launching AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens, a global AI trading hackathon where thousands of developers, quants, and traders will let their algorithms battle in real markets with real money, and showcase their talent in major cities around the globe.

With a USD 880,000 grand prize pool and a Bentley Continental GT for the champion, the event is set to become the largest and most ambitious AI trading showdown the crypto world has ever seen. As WEEX COO Andrew Weiner captures its mission:“AI trading isn’t about replacing traders. It’s about unlocking what becomes possible when code and capital work together.”

The Stakes: Where Intelligence Becomes Wealth

What sets AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens AI Trading Hackathon apart is not only the challenge itself, but what’s at stake. The competition carries a total prize pool of $880,000, one of the largest rewards ever offered in an AI trading event. The champion will drive home a Bentley Continental GT, worth roughly $500,000, a fitting symbol for precision, control, and mastery under pressure. Beyond the top award, another $200,000 in sponsor prizes and a $100,000 WXT token pool will be distributed to best-performing teams.

To recognize different forms of excellence, this event also features several special awards, including honors for Best Strategy, Most Innovative Algorithm, and People’s Choice. These prizes highlight a core belief behind the competition: brilliance in trading should not remain theoretical. In this arena, intelligence is measurable, visible, and rewarded in full.

The Journey: From Global Workshops to Dubai Finals

This global competition unfolds in three powerful acts. From November 20 to December 15, teams worldwide enter the Registration & Warm-Up, where early side challenges spark momentum and creativity. The pace accelerates in the Global Qualifying Round (January 6–26, 2026), as thousands of algorithms face large-scale simulations to earn their place in the finals. Everything culminates in the Grand Finale in Dubai (February 3–16). Finalists receive real trading capital and step into live markets, where only the strongest strategies survive real volatility to embrace the ultimate champion glory.

Across the journey, WEEX will host global workshops in major innovation hubs including Lisbon, Berlin, Istanbul, and Dubai, etc. These sessions unite builders across Europe, Asia, the CIS, and the Middle East—creating a worldwide network of collaboration before they converge on the same stage.

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KOL, Institutional, and Media Partners: A Global Network of Credibility

This event is backed by a powerful network of industrial voices who give the competition both reach and legitimacy. Some of the world’s most influential crypto creators have already joined the journey, including TameTheArk, Crypto Banter (Ran Neuner), Crypto Kang, StephIsCrypto, KOL Capital, Crypto Lifer, and thought leaders from OpenDeSci. Together, they bring millions of followers across Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram, ensuring that every stage of the competition reaches deep into the global crypto community.

On the institutional side, a diverse lineup of partners strengthens the event’s foundation. AI Imagine, ForU AI, BitDoctor.ai, OptimAI, and CLS Global contribute expertise in AI modeling, quant engineering, and market execution. Technology giants such as AWS and Alibaba Cloud support the event with cloud and computing resources, while platforms like DoraHacks and CryptoCopy add developer engagement, Web3 acceleration, and infrastructure support.

This cross-disciplinary ecosystem—spanning AI labs, trading collectives, venture partners, cloud providers, and media powerhouses — forms the backbone of this grand Hackathon. Their participation signals a broader industry alignment: the future of trading will be shaped through collaboration between creators, engineers, researchers, and platforms working together on a global stage.

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The Ecosystem Ahead: Where Builders, Creators and Technical Supporters Converge

AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens AI Trading Hackathon is more than a competition — it’s the gateway to WEEX’s intelligent trading ecosystem. In a live market environment where algorithms face real-time pressure, developers can showcase their skills, gain global recognition, and connect with elite AI researchers, quant teams, and trading specialists. For KOLs, it opens a new storytelling frontier filled with model duels, strategy breakthroughs, and developer collaborations that define the next wave of AI-driven trading. For sponsors and partners, it offers unparalleled access to a highly technical, high-value audience — with over 300,000 livestream impressions, worldwide media exposure, and engagement with thousands of innovators shaping the future of trading technology. This is where algorithms meet liquidity, innovation meets adoption, and the next era of intelligent markets begins.

A Call to the World’s Next Alphas in AI Trading

AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens marks a turning point in how crypto trading is reimagined and how talent is discovered. Every participant who joins this journey becomes part of a new chapter in market intelligence, where ideas move faster, strategies think for themselves and innovation no longer waits for permission.

This is an open invitation to those ready to test their limits — coders who believe their models can read the market better than instinct, traders eager to push the boundaries of intelligence, creators seeking a story worth telling, and partners ready to stand at the front line of a new technological wave. The arena is set, the markets are real, and the opportunity is global. For those prepared to compete, build, and rise, the call is simple: Awaken Your Alpha.

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The privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin announced today the launch of its U-based perpetual contract (a derivative priced in USDT). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin has taken a new approach by "liberating" derivative trading from isolated matching engines and embedding it into the instant messaging environment.

Users can directly open positions within the app with leverage of up to 200x, while sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copy trading within private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into the same interface.

Simplified Trading Experience: No KYC Required, Opening a Position in Five Steps

Based on its non-custodial architecture, Mixin has eliminated friction from the traditional onboarding process, allowing users to participate in perpetual contract trading without identity verification.

The trading process has been streamlined into five steps:

· Choose the trading asset

· Select long or short

· Input position size and leverage

· Confirm order details

· Confirm and open the position

The interface provides real-time visualization of price, position, and profit and loss (PnL), allowing users to complete trades without switching between multiple modules.

Social-Native Trading: Strategy and Execution Completed in the Same Context

Mixin has directly integrated social features into the derivative trading environment. Users can create private trading communities and interact around real-time positions:

· End-to-end encrypted private groups supporting up to 1024 members

· End-to-end encrypted voice communication

· One-click position sharing

· One-click trade copying

On the execution side, Mixin aggregates liquidity from multiple sources and accesses decentralized protocol and external market liquidity through a unified trading interface.

By combining social interaction with trade execution, Mixin enables users to collaborate, share, and execute trading strategies instantly within the same environment.

Referral Mechanism: Non-institutional users can receive up to 60% fee split

Mixin has also introduced a referral incentive system based on trading behavior:

· Users can join with an invite code

· Up to 60% of trading fees as referral rewards

· Incentive mechanism designed for long-term, sustainable earnings

This model aims to drive user-driven network expansion and organic growth.

Self-Custody Architecture and Built-in Privacy Mechanism

Mixin's derivative transactions are built on top of its existing self-custody wallet infrastructure, with core features including:

· Separation of transaction account and asset storage

· User full control over assets

· Platform does not custody user funds

· Built-in privacy mechanisms to reduce data exposure

The system aims to strike a balance between transaction efficiency, asset security, and privacy protection.

A New Path for On-Chain Derivatives

Against the background of perpetual contracts becoming a mainstream trading tool, Mixin is exploring a different development direction by lowering barriers, enhancing social and privacy attributes.

The platform does not only view transactions as execution actions but positions them as a networked activity: transactions have social attributes, strategies can be shared, and relationships between individuals also become part of the financial system.

Regulatory Background

Mixin's design is based on a user-initiated, user-controlled model. The platform neither custodies assets nor executes transactions on behalf of users.

This model aligns with a statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2026, titled "Staff Statement on Whether Partial User Interface Used in Preparing Cryptocurrency Securities Transactions May Require Broker-Dealer Registration."

The statement indicates that, under the premise where transactions are entirely initiated and controlled by users, non-custodial service providers that offer neutral interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers or exchanges.

About Mixin

Mixin is a decentralized, self-custodial privacy wallet designed to provide secure and efficient digital asset management services.

Its core capabilities include:

· Aggregation: integrating multi-chain assets and routing between different transaction paths to simplify user operations

· High liquidity access: connecting to various liquidity sources, including decentralized protocols and external markets

· Decentralization: achieving full user control over assets without relying on custodial intermediaries

· Privacy protection: safeguarding assets and data through MPC, CryptoNote, and end-to-end encrypted communication

Mixin has been in operation for over 8 years, supporting over 40 blockchains and more than 10,000 assets, with a global user base exceeding 10 million and an on-chain self-custodied asset scale of over $1 billion.

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