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DeFi Saver Rewards, Season 1: Compete, Trade, and Earn Your Share of $50,000

Our first incentives campaign just went live with Season 1 of DFS Rewards, covering activity across Hyperliquid, as well as integrated lending protocols including Aave, Spark, Morpho, Compound and more.

We are kicking off our first-ever Rewards campaign, designed to bring together perpetual trading, margin trading and looped DeFi strategies under one competitive framework.

With the recent Hyperliquid integration, users can now access high-performance perpetuals trading directly within DeFi Saver - and starting today, you can also earn rewards for using it.

Welcome to Season 1 of DFS Rewards.

What are DeFi Saver Rewards?

DeFi Saver Rewards is a two-season campaign built around active usage of perpetual trading and leveraged borrowing strategies.

Across both seasons, a total of 50,000 USDC will be distributed to top-performing users based on a combination of trading volume and profitability.

Season 1: June 8th – June 21st
Season 2: TBD

Each season features a 25,000 USDC prize pool, distributed to the top 20 wallets.

How scoring works

Your position on the leaderboard is determined by a scoring system that combines volume with performance-aware multipliers.

Eligible volume includes:

Perpetual trading volume on Hyperliquid.
DFS value-added DeFi actions: leveraged create & close, boost, repay, as well as collateral or debt shifts.

And eligible protocols are:

Hyperliquid
Aave v3 and v4
Spark
Morpho
Fluid
Compound V3
Liquity V2

Multipliers:

Perpetual trading volume gets a positive multiplier if PnL is positive, calculated as 5× the root of total PNL over volume. There are two reasons for this: to level the playing field for smaller portfolio traders, and to prevent wash trading & volume farming.
- Specifically: Perpetuals Score = Volume × (1 + 5 × sqrt(PNL / Volume)) Example 1: For Volume of $10,000 and a PNL of $400, the score would be 10,000 × (1 + 5 × 0.2) = 20,000. Example 2: For Volume of $10,000 and a PNL of $50, the score would be 10,000 × (1 + 5 × 0.07) = 13,500. Example 3: For Volume of $10,000 and a PNL of -$400, the score would be 10,000 - negative PNL is ignored.
Users that tested DFS Perpetuals early get a bonus 1.05× multiplier on their perp score.
Lending volume executed via Automation gets a 1.25× multiplier
Same-class trading volume (stable/stable, ETH/staked ETH, BTC/BTC) gets a penalty multiplier of 0.1×

This system rewards profitable and meaningful activity over pure volume farming.

Rewards breakdown

Each Season distributes 25,000 USDC to the top 20 participants:

1st place: 7,500 USDC
2nd place: 3,500 USDC
3rd place: 2,000 USDC
4th - 10th place: 1,000 USDC each
11th - 20th place: 500 USDC each

Why we think this is a big deal

Our goal with this campaign is to draw attention to what is, to the best of our knowledge, a first in the DeFi space: one app that covers both lending and perpetuals trading.

With Hyperliquid now integrated directly into DeFi Saver, users can: