Frontier Traders Season 1 is live with $1M+ in rewards, and Solflare is the only mobile venue in it. Every eligible trade counts.
What is Frontier Traders Season 1?
Frontier Traders is an exclusive, network-wide community and rewards program for onchain cryptocurrency traders, launched by the Solana Foundation. Its first season, Frontier Traders Season 1, is live now, with over $1 million in rewards up for grabs across an eight-week season.
Solflare is the only mobile venue in it. If you trade Solflare Perps from either your phone or desktop, every eligible trade you make already counts toward Season 1.
Season 1 focuses on perpetual futures trading and runs from 23 September to 7 November 2026, closing with a London Grand Final on 14 November, ahead of Breakpoint.
Full program details, eligibility, and your personal tracking dashboard are live here. Frontier Traders runs the program, sets the rules, and handles all validation and payouts.
How to participate?
Before your trades count, claim your Frontier Traders card by connecting your Solflare wallet. After that, every eligible perps trade you make in Solflare automatically counts toward Season 1. Your eligible volume counts toward the leaderboard, your Crate milestones, and any active weekly campaign, all at once.
Three ways to earn
1. The global leaderboard
Ranked by PnL and by Volume, on two timeframes: weekly and seasonal. That’s four separate prize pools.
Seasonal (Top 50 paid, per leaderboard):
| Place | Prize |
| 1st | $10,000 |
| 2nd | $5,000 |
| 3rd | $3,000 |
| 4th–5th | $2,000 each |
| 6th–10th | $1,500 each |
| 11th–20th | $750 each |
| 21st–30th | $500 each |
| 31st–50th | $400 each |
$50,000 total per leaderboard, $100,000 combined across both Season PnL and Season Volume.
Weekly (Top 10 paid, per leaderboard, resets every week):
| Place | Prize |
| 1st | $3,000 |
| 2nd | $1,800 |
| 3rd | $1,200 |
| 4th | $900 |
| 5th | $700 |
| 6th | $600 |
| 7th | $500 |
| 8th–9th | $450 each |
| 10th | $400 |
$10,000 total per leaderboard, $20,000 combined across both Weekly PnL and Weekly Volume leaderboards, every week.
2. Trading crates
You don’t need to rank on a leaderboard to earn here — Crates pay out purely on your own trading volume, no matter where you place against anyone else.
| Crate | Unlocks at | Reward range |
| Starter | $10K validated volume | $2–$20 |
| Silver | $50K validated volume | $10–$100 |
| Gold | $250K validated volume | $20–$2,000 |
You can earn all three. Your reward inside a Crate is set once validation completes, opening it just reveals the result.
3. Weekly campaigns
Frontier Traders runs a themed trading campaign every week, sometimes with partners, sometimes focused on specific assets. Volume you trade during a campaign counts toward your leaderboard rank and your Crate milestones too, all at once.
Important to note: Frontier Traders runs validation, KYC, and anti-abuse checks independently for every reward. Solflare doesn’t process or guarantee Season 1 payouts, that’s entirely Frontier’s process. Track your own status, milestones, and rewards on your Season 1 dashboard.
Compete for an extra $50,000 in Solflare (trade once, get paid twice)
From 6 to 15 October 2026, Solflare is adding its own $50,000 prize pool inside Season 1. It’s an extra layer on top of FT Season 1: the same Solflare Perps trades count toward Season 1 and Solflare’s prize pool at once, so you trade once and get paid twice.
There’s nothing extra to do. Once your Solflare wallet is connected to Frontier Traders, keep trading Solflare Perps as usual. The Solflare leaderboard sits under Campaigns on your Season 1 dashboard. Only volume traded through Solflare Perps counts, and both boards rank traders by their total Solflare Perps volume. The same regional restrictions as Season 1 apply (see Eligibility below).
Two boards, running in parallel
- Overall board: $25,000 for the top 50, ranked by total Solflare Perps volume across all ten days. Paid once, at the end.
- Daily board: $2,500 for the top 10, paid every 24 hours. It resets every day, so there are ten separate daily boards, each covering 24 hours.
Overall board payouts:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | $5,000 |
| 2nd | $3,000 |
| 3rd | $2,000 |
| 4th | $1,500 |
| 5th | $1,000 |
| 6th | $900 |
| 7th | $800 |
| 8th | $700 |
| 9th | $600 |
| 10th | $500 |
| 11th–15th | $400 each |
| 16th–20th | $350 each |
| 21st–25th | $300 each |
| 26th–30th | $250 each |
| 31st–35th | $200 each |
| 36th–40th | $150 each |
| 41st–45th | $100 each |
| 46th–50th | $50 each |
Daily board payouts (each of the 10 days):
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | $1,000 |
| 2nd | $500 |
| 3rd | $300 |
| 4th | $150 |
| 5th | $125 |
| 6th–7th | $100 each |
| 8th–10th | $75 each |
The campaign and the final daily board close on 15 October, when the overall board winners are announced. As with the rest of Season 1, Frontier Traders handles validation and payouts for Solflare’s prize pool, and Solflare doesn’t process or guarantee any payout.
Road to London
Eight finalists reach the London Grand Final on 14 November 2026, ahead of Breakpoint, to compete for the first Frontier World Champion title:
- 3 seats — winners of live trading events in Serbia, Korea, and Singapore
- 2 seats — the Season PnL champion and the Season Volume champion
- 3 seats — one Frontier Wildcard, plus two seats through new season tracks, still to be announced
The Grand Final winner receives $250,000 in cash. Frontier’s promotional material features a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, but the vehicle is illustrative only and is not part of the prize.
Eligibility
Solflare Perps, and by extension Season 1 participation through Solflare, is not available to US or UK retail users, or in sanctioned jurisdictions. For everything else, including Season 1’s own eligibility, KYC, and validation requirements, refer to Frontier Traders’ official rules.
FAQs
A Solana ecosystem rewards program focused on perpetual futures trading, running 23 September to 7 November 2026, with over $1 million in rewards and a London Grand Final on 14 November.
Solflare is the only wallet where you can trade Phoenix’s perps orderbook from your phone, which makes it the only mobile path into Season 1.
Yes. Claim your Frontier Traders card by connecting your Solflare wallet before your trades count. After that, every eligible trade is tracked automatically toward the leaderboard, your Crates, and any live campaign.
No. Trading Crates pay out purely on your own volume, starting from $10K, with no ranking required.
No. Frontier Traders runs the program, sets the rules, and handles all validation and payouts. Solflare is the exclusive mobile venue for trading, not the operator of the program.
Yes. Solflare’s own $50,000 prize pool runs inside Season 1 from 6 to 15 October. The same Solflare Perps trades count toward both at once.
Your personal dashboard at frontiertraders.com/season1 tracks your rank, Crate milestones, campaign progress, and reward status.
*Perpetual futures are high-risk, leveraged products. You can lose everything you commit. Not suitable for all users, not available in all regions.
Solflare provides the software interface only: your positions are opened and held on the Phoenix protocol, you transact with the protocol directly and no compensation scheme covers your funds. Review the Material Risk Disclosures of Phoenix to make sure you understand the risks and commit only funds you can afford to lose.
A perp gives you leveraged exposure to the price of an asset (a cryptocurrency, a stock, an ETF or a commodity) without owning it. You never own the underlying asset and you have no rights against the company or issuer it references. The perps feature is not available in the United States or the United Kingdom and is blocked entirely in jurisdictions subject to comprehensive sanctions. Solflare's Terms of Service apply.
