Mutagen (Points System)
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Mutagen is a dynamic and elusive resource that powers your progress on Adrena. It’s designed to reward not just performance, but overall trading engagement. Unlike the pre-season that relied on raw PnL, starting from Season 1, we introduced Mutagen as the core ranking metric. This decision was made to be able to rewards all types of traders more fairly, although rest assured that volume and PnL stays kings.
Mutagen can be earned through:
Leverage trading activity
Seasonal mechanisms such as quests, streaks, and other limited-time events, partnerships...
Mutagen was revealed on February 1st, and while leaderboard ranking starts from this date, Mutagen was also be back-generated from any earlier trading activity — note that this only count toward the $ADX airdrop, not the season rankings.
More flexible & tune-able than raw PnL
Allows rewarding activity as well as performance
Ties directly into the multi-season airdrop structure
Encourages ongoing participation, not just high-risk plays
Mutagen is distributed and scored off-chain, based on on-chain activity. We index and process all transactions in our redunded database.
Mutagen accrues primarily through trading volume
Trades generate base points depending on actions taken:
Opening positions
Increasing positions
Closing or liquidating positions
Only closed trades count toward competition rankings
Held/open positions do not count toward division or leaderboard standing
Some actions (like completing quests or platform interactions) will grant flat Mutagen rewards, independent of volume. This helps ensure active participants are also rewarded, especially for the airdrop.
Each trade’s final Mutagen value is calculated as follows:
Base score generated from:
Trade duration
PnL
Mutations (in-platform modifiers)
At close (or liquidation), the total score is multiplied by a size-based multiplier
Check the leaderboard: