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AI-powered decentralized exchange Paradyze gamifies perpetual trading through ranked 1v1 “battles” and automated execution agents, aiming to transform solitary market speculation into an esports-style discipline.
Trading has been a solitary activity for most of its history. Screens, charts and decisions lived in isolation, with little context for how one trader’s performance stacked up against another. Results were private, benchmarks were vague and improvement was difficult to measure beyond personal profit and loss.
That model is starting to shift. As crypto markets mature, a new layer is emerging around competition, visibility and progression. Platforms like AI-powered perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) Paradyze are testing what happens when trading is treated less like a private matter and more like a structured, spectator-ready discipline.
By combining ranked competition, AI-assisted execution and onchain performance tracking, the platform positions trading closer to esports than to traditional exchanges. Instead of separating execution, analytics and performance tracking across different tools, it brings them together into a single onchain environment.
At its core, the platform combines three layers: a perpetual trading venue, a competitive performance system and an AI execution layer designed to reduce manual friction. The result is a system where trading outcomes are ranked, compared and recorded onchain.
Trading in the arena
The idea draws from familiar territory. Competitive formats have long transformed individual skill into global spectacle, a sentiment echoed by Paradyze CEO Dennis Egenrieder:
“Poker, chess and esports became global competitions once the right infrastructure existed. With over a trillion dollars in monthly perpetual trading volume, the scale is already here — Paradyze is building the competitive layer that turns trading into a true sport.”
Paradyze applies that same framework to crypto perpetuals trading, where scale already exists but structure has been missing. This approach is most visible in the platform’s 1v1 Trading Battles feature.
Recently launched on the Bitcoin (BTC) perpetual market, these 30-minute matches pit traders against each other under identical conditions. Outcomes are determined by profit and loss over the match period, with liquidation resulting in immediate forfeit. Performance is verifiable onchain, creating a clear win-loss record.
Perpetual trading performance becomes visible
By formalizing head-to-head competition, Paradyze addresses one of the industry’s longstanding issues: invisible trading skill. Most traders have no objective way to measure performance relative to others. Paradyze tracks results and places them in ranked environments where consistency matters as much as individual wins.
This emphasis challenges another structural incentive common across trading platforms. Many trading platforms are structurally designed to maximize fees and activity, not trader progression. Paradyze shifts attention toward outcomes and progress, encouraging participants to refine strategies over time instead of simply trading more.
To streamline the competitive experience, Paradyze incorporates an AI co-pilot and execution layer designed to minimize manual friction, standardize trade entry and exit and enable more consistent strategy deployment.”
Scaling the competition
The project has reached several milestones, including first place at the Injective AI Hackathon, over $10 million in executed trading volume, the launch of 1v1 Arenas tournaments with a $41,000 prize pool and a $25,000 Championship league.
Alongside its competitive formats, the platform also supports standard solo perpetual trading and tokenized onchain assets including stocks, commodities and forex, allowing participants to operate both inside and outside structured matches.
Looking ahead, Paradyze plans to deepen its AI tooling, expand automation and grow its competitive ecosystem with more structured leagues and progression systems.
As perpetual markets continue to scale into the trillions in monthly volume, the DEX platform is betting that competition will define the next phase of active trading. If esports showed how infrastructure can turn play into performance, Paradyze is exploring whether trading is ready for the same transition.
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