FAQ
Ask us the hard ones.
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01
Safety
CTFY reads your account and can never touch it. Here is exactly how far that goes.
Hyperliquid
Public address · nothing to sign
Is my money safe?
Yes. CTFY only ever sees your trading data, never your funds. Extended accounts connect through a read-only API key — the kind that literally cannot place a trade or move a balance. Hyperliquid accounts connect through a public wallet address, with no key at all. We hold no signing authority and custody nothing. Subscription payments settle atomically to your payout wallet through Circle's on-chain rails, so we never hold those either.
What can CTFY do with my API key?
Read your fills, positions, transfers and account equity. That is the entire scope of a read-only Extended key, and the exchange enforces it at the API layer rather than us enforcing it by policy. If we ever asked for a write-enabled key you should walk away — we don't, we won't, and the connect flow rejects any key that isn't read-only.
Could CTFY move funds if your servers were compromised?
No. Nothing on the CTFY server side can sign a transaction on your behalf. An attacker with full access to our infrastructure still could not open a position or start a withdrawal on your DEX account, because the read-only guarantee is enforced by the exchange and not by us.
02
The record
What is shown for every account, and how to read one against another.
Ledger
PONS-$9.46sell$12Oct 8
What does CTFY show for an account?
Return, max drawdown and the length of the record, with win rate, trade count and volume beside them, and the full ledger behind all of it. Everything is computed from the account's whole history, from the first fill, and none of it is blended into a single mark. CTFY does not pick a winner. You read the record and decide.
How do I compare two accounts?
Read the drawdown next to the return, and the length of the record next to both. A large return means little until you see the drawdown it took to get there. A shallow drawdown over a few months is a quiet few months, and over years it is a habit. Five trades at a loud return and five hundred at a modest one are different records, and the ledger lets you check which one you are looking at.
How often does the record update?
Fills and positions update in near real time — a WebSocket feed with an eight-second REST poll behind it. Return and drawdown are recomputed from the full history on every sync, and once a day via cron as a belt-and-braces check. A trade shows up on the profile within a minute of being placed.
03
Money
What it costs, where it settles, and what happens when you want it back.
95% to the trader
A trader subscriptionPlatform fee
What does it cost to use CTFY?
$2.99 a month for platform access, in USDC. Connecting a trading account is free. Subscriptions to an individual trader are priced by that trader — they keep 95%, the platform takes 5%. Everything settles in USDC on Arc, Circle's stablecoin L1, through Circle's CCTP.
How do subscription payouts work?
When a subscriber pays a trader, the payment is split: 95% to the trader's payout wallet, 5% to the platform. No invoices, no monthly reconciliation, no waiting. Payouts are made on Arc, in USDC.
Which chains can I pay from?
Arc, Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Unichain and Linea. From any of the eight that are not Arc, burn USDC there; CCTP mints on Arc within about fifteen seconds and the platform splits it. From Arc itself there is nothing to bridge. Off Arc, you cover gas on the source chain — usually cents on an L2. On Arc, USDC is the native gas token, and paying a trader from Arc is gasless: we submit it and pay the gas, and if that route is unavailable it falls back to ordinary transactions you pay gas for: an approval when your allowance is short, then the payment. Platform access paid on Arc is an ordinary transfer, so you pay that gas.
Does CTFY ever hold my payment?
Paid from Arc, no: a trader subscription is split by the payments contract in the same transaction, 95% to the trader and 5% to the platform, and platform access goes straight to the treasury. Paid from any of the other eight chains, briefly: Circle mints your USDC on Arc into a CTFY receiving wallet, and the platform sends it on from there, 95% to the trader and 5% to the treasury for a subscription, all of it to the treasury for platform access. If one of those transfers fails, the USDC stays in that wallet until it is sent on.
Can I get a refund?
Subscriptions are monthly and non-recurring: you actively choose to renew rather than being charged until you cancel. If a trader stops trading mid-month you keep the access you paid for through the end of that month. A slow trading week is the trader's judgement, not a platform failure, and there is no automatic refund for one.
04
Accounts and records
The part most leaderboards leave out.
- Slot 1 · Extended · LIVE
- Slot 2 · Hyperliquid · LIVE
- Slot 3 · disconnected · USED
What happens if I blow up an account?
You can hide it, but you cannot get the slot back. Every wallet gets three account connections for life, and disconnecting an account takes it off the leaderboard and stops it syncing without returning its slot. So blowing up an account and starting over spends one of your three, for good. That cap is the mechanism that keeps a leaderboard from filling up with survivors.
Which exchanges are supported?
Hyperliquid, through a public wallet address with no API key at all, and Extended on StarkNet, through a read-only key. Hyperliquid coverage includes native perps and builder-deployed perp DEXes such as Hyperliquid Equity Perps. More venues get added as they clear the read-only-verifiable bar.
Can I hide my identity?
You choose your handle, your display name, and whether to link a social account for extra signal. What you cannot choose is whether the trades are visible — those are on-chain, and once an account is connected CTFY publishes the whole record for anyone to check against the exchange.
Still curious? Try it.
The leaderboard is free to browse, and every figure on it can be checked against the exchange it came from.