2,760 Traders. 3 Days. One Champion: The carrotfunding.io Easter Trading Competition

The first major trading competition on carrotfunding.io is officially in the books.

Over three days, the carrotfunding.io platform handled thousands of simultaneous trading accounts, all executing live on gTrade by Gains Network on Arbitrum. No simulated fills. No synthetic pricing. Real decentralized liquidity, the same infrastructure that powers standard carrotfunding.io challenges.

From Tuesday April 8th to Friday April 11th, 2,760 traders entered the Easter Trading Competition – a free, 72-hour battle for $90,000 worth of funded trading challenges. The rules were simple: trade a $10K Normal Mode competition account, close the highest PnL before the deadline, and don't breach your risk limits.

Simple to understand. brutal to execute.

Here's everything that happened.

How the Competition Worked

Entry was open to every carrotfunding.io user, completely free with promo code EASTER. No fee. No barrier. Select a $10K Normal Mode competition account at checkout and start trading.

Scoring was pure and unambiguous – highest closed PnL at the end of competition wins. No consistency score. No complex metrics. Just your final closed balance against everyone else's.

The catch? The same risk limits as standard challenge accounts applied throughout. Maximum Daily Loss and Maximum Loss were enforced in real time. Breach either one and you were immediately disqualified – no exceptions, no appeals.

That's the carrotfunding.io standard. Discipline isn't just rewarded here. It's required.

By the Numbers

The scale of the competition exceeded every internal benchmark:

• 2,760 total competitors registered
• 276 leaderboard pages of active traders
• 1,526 active competitors by end of Day 1
• #1 trader already at +$2K PnL after just 24 hours

The leaderboard was live and public throughout the entire event at app.carrotfunding.io/leaderboard. Anyone could watch the standings shift in real time – traders, spectators, and followers tracking the competition from the outside. No hidden scores, no backroom adjustments, no waiting for results to be "announced." Every position update reflected instantly. If you climbed the rankings, you saw it. If you dropped, you saw that too. Full transparency, exactly as carrotfunding.io is built to operate.

The Final Standings

When the clock hit Friday 12 PM UTC, the leaderboard locked for good.

Three traders who ranked in the top five on raw PnL were disqualified for breaching risk limits. A hard reminder that profit without discipline doesn't count – not in a real trading environment, and not at carrotfunding.io.

Here are the traders who finished both profitable and within the rules:

Worth noting, three traders who finished above 3rd place on raw PnL were disqualified for breaching risk limits. setrowski didn't just outperform everyone on profit, he did it while staying disciplined from start to finish. That's what a funded trader looks like.

Congratulations to all five winners. Your challenge accounts are already loaded and waiting.

Why Discipline Beat Raw Profit

This competition was a live demonstration of carrotfunding.io's core philosophy.

Traditional prop trading metrics reward raw performance. carrotfunding.io rewards sustainable performance the kind that survives real market conditions. The Easter Trading Competition enforced the same Maximum Daily Loss and Maximum Loss limits as standard challenge accounts. Traders who ignored those limits in pursuit of a higher leaderboard position found themselves disqualified.

The winners didn't just trade well. They traded smart.

What's Different About Competing on carrotfunding.io

Every trade during the Easter Trading Competition executed through gTrade by Gains Network on Arbitrum – decentralized, transparent, and verifiable. The leaderboard was publicly visible and updated in real time. No black-box scoring. No opaque evaluation logic. Every position, every PnL figure, fully on-chain.

This is what a DeFi-native trading competition looks like. Transparent by design. Trustless by infrastructure.

2,760 traders. 3 days. Thank you for participating. The next one will be even bigger.