{"id":17642,"date":"2021-09-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/21\/wsot-2021-crypto-trading-competition-of-the-year-made-history-with-4-09-million-in-prizes\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:00:00","slug":"wsot-2021-crypto-trading-competition-of-the-year-made-history-with-4-09-million-in-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/21\/wsot-2021-crypto-trading-competition-of-the-year-made-history-with-4-09-million-in-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOT 2021: Crypto Trading Competition of the Year Made History With $4.09 Million in Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Record number of participants in&#13;<br \/>\nBybit&#8217;s World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2021 drove up total prize pool to a&#13;<br \/>\nhistoric <b>$4.09 million<\/b>, up from last&#13;<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s $1.27 million<\/li>\n<li><i>\ub9e4\uc5b5\ub0a8<\/i> secured No.1 title as captain&#13;<br \/>\nof top troop <i>\uc720\ud29c\ube0c\ub9e4\uc5b5\ub0a8<\/i> with a staggering 2,044.90%&#13;<br \/>\nP&amp;L, followed by <i>\uae08\uc735\uc778&#13;<br \/>\n\uac15\uc740\ud638<\/i>&#13;<br \/>\n(1,774.84% P&amp;L) and <i>PepeCup Army<\/i>&#13;<br \/>\n(1,417.15% P&amp;L)<\/li>\n<li>A star-studded cast from the esports&#13;<br \/>\nworld: gaming legends from four elite esports clubs dabbled in competitive&#13;<br \/>\ncrypto trading <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 21 September 2021&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; The 2021 edition of the World Series of Trading (WSOT) ended on a high note&#13;<br \/>\non Friday. The world&#8217;s best crypto traders can now kick back and relax after 20&#13;<br \/>\nintensive days of trading, having divided up a record prize pool at<b> <\/b>$4.09 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South&#13;<br \/>\nKorean outfit demonstrated the value of team effort \u2014 840,000 USDT to be exact,&#13;<br \/>\ntaking home the prize money on top of their stunning 2,044.90% P&amp;L&#13;<br \/>\nearnings. This year&#8217;s trading super stars also include winners by individual&#13;<br \/>\nP&amp;Ls: <i>HeresJonny <\/i>(P&amp;L:&#13;<br \/>\n7,265.94%), <i>chinesebirdman <\/i>(P&amp;L:&#13;<br \/>\n4,599.74%) and <i>CHANS<\/i> (P&amp;L:&#13;<br \/>\n4,249.09%).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Powered&#13;<br \/>\nby Bybit, the world&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency trading event attracted more than&#13;<br \/>\n34,738 sign-ups this year, up 280.86% from last year. Team players from 136&#13;<br \/>\neligible regions formed or joined 196 troops in the main event, with 19,592&#13;<br \/>\nindependent traders opting to play solo in the individual competition. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WSOT&#13;<br \/>\n2021 has captivated crypto lovers worldwide this year with the sheer size of&#13;<br \/>\nits prize pool of USDT and NFTs. The event has also extended its reach to&#13;<br \/>\nanother community with a group of special guests: A-list esports athletes. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>12<b> <\/b>gaming professionals from four&#13;<br \/>\nprominent organizations \u2014 NAVI, Astralis, Alliance and Virtus.pro \u2014 put on&#13;<br \/>\ntheir crypto trader hat and assumed the role of troop captains with<b> <\/b>198 troopers slash fans from around&#13;<br \/>\nthe world, who followed their exhilarating performances live on the event&#13;<br \/>\nwebsite.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nare in awe once again of the outpour of support from the global crypto&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity, and we are excited to have met all 34,738 participants this year.&#13;<br \/>\nWhether you&#8217;ve just discovered WSOT or crypto, whether you are a seasoned&#13;<br \/>\ntrader or a budding crypto lover, you have found an incredibly creative and&#13;<br \/>\nsupportive community,&#8221; said Ben Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Bybit. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nhave returned bigger and better this year as promised. WSOT runs on the&#13;<br \/>\nprinciples of fair competition, full transparency, access to opportunities and&#13;<br \/>\neverything crypto is about. We hope everyone who took part in WSOT 2021 will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to find joy in trading and explore the potential digital assets have&#13;<br \/>\nto offer in the next 12 months as we build the next big thing,&#8221; Zhou added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City&#13;<br \/>\nof dragons, secret codes, surprise dropping of NFTs, WSOT 2021 was not for the&#13;<br \/>\nfaint of heart. Keeping up with its imaginative gamification tradition, this&#13;<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s tournament kept participants entertained and challenged with live tasks,&#13;<br \/>\nmini games, and most importantly traders had to compete to deliver the most&#13;<br \/>\nimpressive final P&amp;Ls and performances for the grand prizes and bonus&#13;<br \/>\nprizes. Together, traders from around the world successfully unlocked the&#13;<br \/>\nlargest prize pool the crypto trading world has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#13;<br \/>\ntakes imagination and dedication to win in a trading competition, which is why&#13;<br \/>\nBybit is committed to furthering its partnership with UNICEF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org.nz\/stories\/unicef-new-zealand-and-bybit-launch-partnership\"><b>to empower girls&#8217; education in East Asia and the Pacific<\/b><\/a> with another BTC donation&#13;<br \/>\nequivalent to $400,000 in WSOT 2021, or 5% of the prize pool plus contributions&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Bybit. The donation is dedicated to UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goal No.&#13;<br \/>\n4 towards &#8220;inclusive and equitable quality education&#8221; via UNICEF efforts. It&#13;<br \/>\nhelps fund, among other initiatives, digital education for girls in the region&#13;<br \/>\nby making science and technology education within reach for marginalized groups&#13;<br \/>\nwith innovative education solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check&#13;<br \/>\nout <a href=\"https:\/\/go.bybit.com\/nlQSKCwELib\">bybit.com\/wsot2021<\/a> for the final rankings of WSOT 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-09-21\/95747\/wsot-2021-crypto-trading-competition-of-the-year-made-history-with-4-09-million-in-prizes\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record number of participants in&#13; Bybit&#8217;s World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2021 drove up total prize pool to a&#13; historic $4.09 million, up from last&#13; year&#8217;s $1.27 million \ub9e4\uc5b5\ub0a8 secured No.1 title as captain&#13; of top troop \uc720\ud29c\ube0c\ub9e4\uc5b5\ub0a8 with a staggering 2,044.90%&#13; P&amp;L, followed by \uae08\uc735\uc778&#13; \uac15\uc740\ud638&#13; (1,774.84% P&amp;L) and PepeCup Army&#13; (1,417.15% P&amp;L) A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}