We cover your PopDEX fees.
In October, trade for a prize pool.

1What PopDEX Pro charges, and why

PopDEX Pro is free to use. It is paid for by a builder fee of 0.075% on orders it places for you, under the 0.1% maximum PopDEX allows a builder to charge. You authorise that fee once, on-chain, and you can revoke it at any time. PopDEX charges it on each fill, in addition to PopDEX's own maker and taker fee.

The builder fee pays for a full trading terminal in Telegram: copy trading, trailing stops, liquidation warnings and live alerts, on your phone, wherever you are. We use part of that fee to cover your PopDEX trading fee, and in October part of it funds the prize pool. The builder fee itself is not refunded; it is what pays for both.

So the cost of an eligible trade through PopDEX Pro is the 0.075% builder fee. Your PopDEX maker or taker fee comes back to you.

2Your PopDEX fees, covered

1. What you get back. 100% of the maker and taker fee PopDEX actually charged you on every eligible fill from 1 October 2026, 00:00 UTC. This is how PopDEX Pro is priced, not a limited-time offer; if it ever changes, section 8 says how you'll be told.
2. Your VIP tier is respected automatically. We refund the exact fee PopDEX recorded on each fill, not a fixed rate. VIP 0 taker fills (0.032%) get back 0.032%; a VIP 2 wallet gets back its VIP 2 fee; and so on for every tier and market-maker tier.
3. Rebates are yours, and are not refunded twice. At tiers where PopDEX pays makers a rebate (a negative maker fee), you already received money on that fill, so the refund for that fill is zero. The rebate is still yours.
4. The builder fee must be on the fill. A fill counts only if the 0.075% PopDEX Pro builder fee was charged on it. This happens automatically once you have authorised the builder in the bot (/support). Accounts that have not authorised it, or whose fee has been waived, pay no builder fee, and their fills earn no refund.
5. Per-fill ceiling. The refund on any single fill is capped at two thirds of the builder fee charged on that same fill. At every rate PopDEX publishes today, your full trading fee is below this cap, so the ceiling never applies. It exists only in case PopDEX raises its fees.
6. Copy trades count. If you copy a trader through PopDEX Pro, your copied fills are eligible in exactly the same way as trades you place yourself.
7. What is not refunded: the builder fee, funding payments, trading losses, slippage, and anything charged on orders that PopDEX Pro did not place.

3October Volume Challenge

From 1 October 2026, 00:00:00 UTC to 31 October 2026, 23:59:59 UTC, every eligible fill adds its filled dollar value to one community total. The total unlocks a prize pool in steps. The live total, the leaderboard and an address checker are at /campaign.

Milestones

1. The pool is set by the highest milestone reached by the end of October. There is no partial pool between milestones: $19.9M pays out the $10M pool. Below $2M no pool unlocks and there is no prize draw. Volume above $50M does not raise the pool.
2. Five winners share it: the four traders with the most volume win 35%, 25%, 15% and 10%, and one Lucky Trader drawn from everybody else who qualifies wins 15%.
3. You are one trader, however many wallets you use. Every address linked to your Telegram account in the bot counts together toward your place, and you can win one prize at most. A top-four trader is not in the draw.
4. Ties go to whoever reached the tied volume first, by the time of their last eligible fill.
5. Lucky Trader. To enter you need at least $10,000 of eligible volume across at least 10 filled orders in October. You get one entry per full $10,000, up to 100 entries. We publish the list of entries with the results, and the draw uses a public random source fixed before the draw that nobody, including us, can choose. We announce that source in the bot before the draw.
6. Organizer volume. We may trade through PopDEX Pro from our own wallets to help reach a milestone. Those wallets are named in the bot before they trade, follow exactly the same rules and pay the same fees, and their volume is shown separately on /campaign. They cannot place, enter the draw or win anything.
7. Results. The leaderboard during October is provisional. In the 7 days after it ends we check every figure against PopDEX's own fill and builder-fee records, then announce the winners in the bot and on /campaign, with shortened addresses, volumes and prizes. If a winner is disqualified, everyone below them moves up a place.
8. Your fees are still covered. The challenge comes on top of section 2: your October fills are refunded as usual whether or not you win.

4What counts, and what doesn't

Refunds and the challenge are calculated from PopDEX's own fill records: the dollar value that actually traded, the fee PopDEX charged, and the builder fee. They are never calculated from the order size you asked for.

Timing

What matters is when the fill happens (UTC), not when the order was placed. A limit order placed on 30 September that fills on 1 October counts. An order placed on 31 October that fills on 1 November counts for refunds but not for the October challenge.

Several accounts

For refunds, each PopDEX address is counted and paid separately. For the October challenge, all the addresses linked to one Telegram account count together as one trader (section 3).

5How and when you're paid

1. Currency and destination. USDT, sent on PopDEX to an address that earned it: the trading address for a refund, and for an October prize the address on the winning account with the most October volume. Only the owner of that address can use the funds, so there is nothing to claim. We never ask you for an address, a private key, a seed phrase or any payment, and we never will. Anyone who does is not us.
2. Refunds are paid monthly, within 7 days after each calendar month ends. October prizes are paid within 7 days after the results are announced.
3. Checked first. Before paying we check our records against the builder ledger PopDEX keeps independently; if they don't agree, we pay once the difference is explained, and we say so in the bot.
4. Minimum. A refund is paid once an address is owed at least $1.00; smaller amounts carry over to the next month.
5. Rounding. Each fill is calculated to six decimal places and summed. The total for each address is rounded down to the nearest cent.
6. Announcement. We announce in the bot when payouts have been sent. Every payout is an ordinary on-chain transfer, so you can verify it yourself.
7. Deleting your data first. /deleteme removes the link between you and your addresses, which leaves us nowhere to send an unpaid refund or prize. If you want it, ask for it to be paid before you delete (section 8). Otherwise it lapses when you delete.

6Fair play

Gaming this costs more than it pays: every refund and prize comes out of a builder fee that was already paid on the same volume, and nobody can win back more than that fee. We still exclude abuse, and we may remove volume, entries or prizes from any address involved in:

• trading against yourself, or between accounts you control or coordinate with, to create volume (wash trading);
• splitting trading across several Telegram accounts to take more than one place or prize;
• exploiting a bug, pricing error or delay in PopDEX, PopDEX Pro or this programme, instead of reporting it;
• market manipulation, or anything that breaks PopDEX's own terms;
• using several Telegram accounts to get around a block, a limit or an exclusion.

Trading often, scalping, hedging or trading near the deadline is not abuse. We act only on clear evidence. When we remove anything we tell the Telegram account involved, if we know it, and give the reason. Accounts blocked from PopDEX Pro for abuse are not paid.

7Who can take part

• You must be allowed to use PopDEX under its own terms, including any age, country and sanctions restrictions PopDEX applies. If PopDEX restricts your account, we cannot pay it.
• You must be 18 or older, and allowed to trade derivatives where you live.
• If the law where you live does not allow you to take part in a prize draw, you cannot win the Lucky Trader prize; the top-four places are decided by volume alone.
• You are responsible for any tax on refunds or prizes you receive.
• PopDEX Pro is an independent tool built on PopDEX's public builder programme. PopDEX has not reviewed these programmes and is not responsible for them; questions about them come to us, not to PopDEX.

8Changes, errors and disputes

1. Contact. For questions, disputes or payout requests, message @ilhanEdu on X. Include the account address involved, and never include a private key or seed phrase.
2. Changing the fee refund. We may change or end it. We will announce it in the bot at least 24 hours before it takes effect, and a change never reduces what you earned on fills before it took effect.
3. Changing the October challenge. We won't change its milestones, prizes or eligibility once it has started, except to close an exploit or fix an obvious mistake. Any change is announced in the bot with the time it takes effect, applies from then on, and is listed on this page.
4. If PopDEX changes something. If PopDEX changes its fees, fill records or builder programme, the rules above apply to the data PopDEX actually provides. If PopDEX stops providing the data we need, we pay on what we have recorded up to that point.
5. Mistakes. If we underpay you, we pay the difference. If we overpay you because of an error, we may deduct the overpayment from future refunds. We will not ask you to send money back.
6. Disputes. Raise a dispute within 14 days of the payout or results announcement, with the address and, if you have them, the fills involved. We check it against PopDEX's fill records. Our decision based on those records is final for this programme; it does not affect any right you have under the law.

9Privacy

You don't need to sign up or give us anything new to take part. Here is everything the programmes use.

What we use

• What the bot already holds: your Telegram ID and username, the PopDEX addresses you linked for trading, and the record of orders the bot placed for you. The bot's /mydata command lists all of it.
• Public PopDEX data about those addresses: fill records and VIP tier, read from PopDEX's public API. We read every fill on a linked address so we can tell which ones the bot placed, keep only those, and discard the rest. We never store your trading history from the PopDEX website or other tools.

What we don't do

• We don't collect your name, email, phone number or location, and we don't use trackers or analytics.
• We don't sell, rent or share your data. We send no data about you to anyone except PopDEX, and only your public address, to read public data.
• We don't publish Telegram names or usernames.

What becomes public

• The October leaderboard shows shortened addresses and amounts only. The live feed of recent trades on the same page shows a shortened address, the market, the filled amount and how long ago; never the direction of the trade.
• The address checker on /campaign shows the October standing of any address someone enters. If you trade from several addresses linked to one Telegram account, looking up any of them shows your combined total.
• Payouts are on-chain transfers to your address, so the amount and the address are visible to anyone, like any other transaction on PopDEX. Nothing links them to your Telegram account.

How long we keep it

We keep the fill records behind a payout for as long as the programme runs and for one year after its last payout, so we can answer disputes and prove what was paid. /deleteme in the bot removes your Telegram details and address links at any time; we keep only anonymised amounts, and any unpaid refund or prize lapses (section 5).

10Risk and legal

• Trading perpetual futures is risky. You can lose all the money in your account. A fee refund or a prize does not reduce trading losses, and you should never trade more, or trade differently, to earn one. Most traders will not win a prize.
• Copying is not advice. A trader's past results don't predict future ones, and appearing on a leaderboard is not a recommendation by us of any trader or trade. Nothing here is investment advice.
• Your keys stay yours. The key the bot trades with can place and cancel orders but cannot withdraw or move your funds; this is enforced on-chain. You can revoke it at any time with /panic or /unlink.
• No guarantee of service. PopDEX Pro and PopDEX can be slow, unavailable or wrong. We are not liable for orders that did not go through, for losses, or for the value of refunds or prizes beyond the amounts set out in these rules. If the leaderboard stops updating for a while, nobody gains or loses a place because of it: results come from PopDEX's records, not the page.
• If any part of these rules is unenforceable, the rest still applies. If a translation or a post about the programmes disagrees with this page, this page wins.