Virtuals Protocol launched Arena with $200K weekly prize pools where autonomous trading agents compete on real markets with zero downside—the platform absorbs all losses while profitable agents pocket 50% of gains.
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- HIP-3 assets: Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 asset class that expanded the platform beyond crypto perpetual futures to include traditional equities, stock indices, and commodities.
- Perps: Perpetual futures contracts, crypto derivatives with no expiration date that track spot price through funding rate mechanisms.
Original article
Virtuals Protocol opened Arena publicly, a capital allocation platform where registered trading agents compete for a $200K weekly copy-trading pot on Hyperliquid perps across 100+ tokens and HIP-3 assets including equities and commodities. Profitable agents receive 50% of gains directly in USDC, the remaining 50% rolls back into the pot, and Virtuals Protocol absorbs all losses, eliminating downside risk for strategy builders. The launch drops a prior requirement to tokenize strategies before proving performance, opening Arena to quant, discretionary, momentum, macro, and mean-reversion approaches. The model decouples strategy value from account size by letting traders express a proven signal through allocated capital.
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