The 1 SOL Challenge

You’ve got seven days to see what you can turn 1 SOL into trading new game launches on Loadout. You trade with your own SOL. Everyone starts with 1 SOL on the leaderboard, even if there’s more in their wallet.

The three highest qualifying scores split $10,000. Your score includes your competition SOL and the value of any competition tokens you still hold, averaged over the last hour of the challenge. You can keep holding them.

Place	Prize
1st place	$5,000
2nd place	$3,000
3rd place	$2,000

We pay all prizes in USDT. There’s another $1,000 for our favourite line about the trenches. You can enter that one before trading even starts.

How to enter

The challenge opens at 21:00 UTC on 12 November 2026 and closes at 21:00 UTC on 19 November 2026.

Log in to Loadout with your usual Solana wallet and connect your X account before you trade. Your first eligible buy after that enters you. You can start on day one or day six. Trades you made before connecting X never count, even if you connect it later.

Follow your score and rank at app.loadout.xyz/challenge. The leaderboard updates every hour.

What counts

Trade tokens created through Loadout Instant Launch during the challenge. Buys and sells in the Loadout app count both on the bonding curve and in the pool after graduation. You earn XP as usual.

Trades through terminals, aggregators or bots don’t count. Neither do trades in a token you launched yourself. Your trade has to land on-chain inside the challenge window. At 21:00 UTC on the last day, trading for the challenge is over.

$1,000 for the best line

Quote the announcement post on X with your best line about the state of the trenches right now. We’ll pick our favourite when the challenge starts at 21:00 UTC on 12 November 2026. One winner gets $1,000. Our decision is final.

Quote this post so we can find your entry: announcement post

How your 1 SOL works

Your competition balance exists on the leaderboard. Adding SOL to your wallet doesn’t top it up. Every eligible trade counts in the order it happens. You can’t pick your best ones afterwards.

Buying. Each buy uses your competition balance first. Buy with 0.4 SOL and you’ve got 0.6 SOL left on the board. If your next buy is 5 SOL, only 0.6 SOL of it counts. That’s 12% of the buy, so 12% of the tokens you receive count towards the challenge. The app shows how much counts before you buy.

Selling. When you sell in the Loadout app, the same share of the sale counts as the share of that token that counts. If 12% of your tokens count, 12% of the SOL you receive goes back into your competition balance. You can use it on your next buy. The app shows exactly how much goes back before you sell.

Fees. Buys count at what you paid, fees included. Sells count at what you received after fees. We ignore network fees and tips.

Transfers. Tokens sent into your wallet never count. Competition tokens you send out, or sell outside the Loadout app, are gone from your score.

One wallet’s week

Trade	What counts	SOL left to trade
Buy token A with 0.4 SOL	All 0.4 SOL	0.6 SOL
Buy token B with 5 SOL	0.6 SOL (12% of the buy)	0 SOL
Sell all of A for 0.9 SOL	All 0.9 SOL	0.9 SOL
Sell half of B for 4 SOL	0.48 SOL (12% of the sale)	1.38 SOL

Why does 0.48 SOL count on that last sale? 12% of your B counts, so 12% of any B sale counts, and 12% of 4 SOL is 0.48 SOL. The wallet has 1.38 SOL left to trade, and the B it still holds is still 12% competition tokens.

Winning

Your final score is your competition SOL plus what you’d receive in SOL for selling each remaining competition position in full on Loadout, after trading fees. We measure it once a minute during the last hour (20:00 to 21:00 UTC on 19 November) and take the average. Your tokens stay in your wallet, and you don’t need to sell to win.

To qualify, make at least one eligible buy and finish with a score above 1 SOL. Exact ties split the prizes for the places they cover.

At the cutoff the leaderboard shows “Results under review” and is provisional. We check the top finishers against their on-chain trades and confirm the winners within 48 hours. To claim, your X account must be connected to the winning wallet. Sign a message from that wallet to prove it’s yours, then we pay out.

Fair play

Use one wallet. One prize per person. Loadout can disqualify anyone it believes entered more than once or manipulated their score. Loadout’s decision on results is final.

By entering, you agree to these rules and the Loadout Terms of Use.