MEXC Meme Token Trading Contest enters the final stage. The prize pool of 100,000 USDT is divided among the TOP 50, and the final ranking will be determined in the last 48 hours.
For users who have not yet entered the top 50, now is not the time to give up. But the final 48-hour sprint requires strategy rather than brute force.
The competitive logic of the leaderboard
The logic of the base and extra jackpots is "reach the target to participate" - 100,000 and 500,000 USDT are fixed thresholds, and reaching them will divide the corresponding jackpot. The list jackpot is completely different: It is a relative ranking competition, and your goal is not to reach a certain number, but to trade more than others.
This structure determines the core principle of the sprint: The "timing distribution" of trading volume is more important than the "total volume".
Strategic framework for the last 48 hours
Retain ammunition for later stages. If you have completed the trading volume targets for the base and additional jackpots, the remaining funds should be concentrated and released in the last 48 hours. The ranking is calculated based on the cumulative trading amount. Each dollar of the early multi-trade has the same weight as each dollar of the late multi-trade, but the early multi-trade means that you bear the market volatility risk for a longer period of time.
Choose high liquidity targets. The core of leaderboard competition is trading volume, and the actual contribution of trading volume depends on the scale you can buy and sell.
PONS ,
USELESS and
ANSEM have relatively high 24-hour trading volume, relatively sufficient liquidity, suitable for large transactions without significant slippage.
Pay attention to the long-short ratio signal. The MEXC event page provides real-time long-short ratio data for each currency pair. When the long-short ratio of a currency pair is heavily biased towards one side, it often means that the short-term direction may reverse. Using directional trading while impulse may be more efficient than simply fake traffic.
Changes in the market environment
It should be noted that the popularity of Meme in Robinhood Chain is changing. DeFi researcher Ignas stated on September 22nd that the popularity of Meme coins in the Robinhood ecosystem is weakening. He has withdrawn from related LP positioning and observed a trend of funds possibly shifting from Robinhood Chain to Solana. The daily trading volume of Robinhood Chain's DEX has dropped from a peak of $3.70 billion on September 4th to $1.90 billion.
Meanwhile, Solana's Meme liquidity is returning. ZCAT rose more than 500% in 24 hours, and Solana accounted for 67% of the spot DEX trading volume on September 7th. This rotational trend means that the ranking boost strategy in the last 48 hours may need to consider changes in the underlying liquidity.
An easily overlooked technical detail
The leaderboard counts the contract trading volume . This means that the opening and position squaring of both long and short positions are included in the trading volume. Opening a long position before opening a short position (or reverse operation) on the same currency pair generates trading volume for both operations.
But this operation has a cost. Contract trading involves funding rates, and frequent opening and closing of positions will generate continuous expenses. The key criterion is whether the list rewards cover your trading costs. For users at the top of the rankings, the reward amount may be significantly higher than the cost; but for users at the edge of the rankings, the cost may erode or even exceed the expected benefits.
Conclusion
The essence of leaderboard sprinting is a game of information asymmetry - your judgment of the competition landscape and your choice of "when to release trading volume" are more important than the absolute value of trading volume itself.