Rewards rules

1. Overview

Zone Scouts submit support and resistance zones; the system scores each one against what price actually did. Accurate contributors earn rank and rewards, and validated zones become training data. Opinions are never used as training data directly: only scored outcomes are.

These rules are published so that the programme can be trusted without publishing prize amounts: the pool formula and the split are fixed here, and each month’s announcement confirms that the pool was paid to all winners.

2. Pool size

• 3% of the previous month’s net revenue, where net revenue is gross subscription revenue after app store fees, payment fees, refunds and chargebacks.
• The pool starts at $5,000 net monthly revenue. Below that, rewards are plan upgrades and points only.
• The pool is capped at $15,000 a month at first. The cap is reviewed once a year.
• Unpaid amounts stay with the company: if fewer than 10 people qualify, the unpaid places are not paid out or carried over.

3. Top-10 split

The example columns are illustrations of the formula, not statements of actual revenue.

4. Monthly score

The score has two parts. Zone accuracy is the larger part because it improves the model; community points reward ideas and posts.

Zone points (per submitted zone, once its outcome is known)

Multiplied by timeframe: M15 ×0.5, H1 ×1, H4 ×1.5, D1 and above ×2. Losing points on failed zones means spamming zones lowers the score instead of raising it. A zone is locked at submission and cannot be edited after price moves. Zones near the current price or very wide zones score less.

Community points (ideas and analysis posts)

• Each vote on a post earns the author the voter’s weight (see the table below).
• A single post can earn at most 100 vote points, so one viral post cannot decide the month.
• Idea moved to Planned: +20. Idea shipped: +100.
• Confirmed bug report: +25 to +50.

5. Vote weights and limits by plan

Free votes need a verified email and an account at least 7 days old. Together, free votes can make up at most 25% of any post’s vote points, so fake free accounts cannot push a post up.

6. Eligibility

Checked at month end:

• An active paid plan on the last day of the month and for at least 15 days of it.
• At least 30 scored zones, or at least 50 community points.
• One prize per person. Linked or duplicate accounts are disqualified.
• Tie: the higher average zone score wins.
• A wallet address set in the dashboard, confirmed and not changed in the 7 days before payout.
• Not resident in a country subject to comprehensive sanctions, and a wallet that passes sanctions screening.

Contributors appear on the leaderboard after a minimum of 30 scored submissions.

7. Anti-gaming rules

• No voting on your own posts. Votes from linked accounts (same device, IP pattern or payment method) are ignored.
• Vote rings, where the same small group keeps voting for each other, lose weight automatically and are flagged for review.
• Zones must be at least a set distance (in ATR) from price when submitted, and no wider than a set maximum. Duplicate zones from linked accounts are detected and ignored.
• Submissions per day are limited by plan, so nobody can post hundreds of zones to get lucky.
• The top 10 is reviewed by hand before payout. Rewards can be withdrawn if fraud is found, including in past months, and a fraud reversal is recorded as a negative entry in the points ledger.

8. Payouts in stablecoins

• Prizes are paid in USDT or USDC on a low-fee network: TRON, Polygon or Solana. The company pays network fees.
• The wallet address is set in the dashboard. It can be changed once a month, only by eligible members, and needs two-factor authentication plus a confirmation by email or Telegram. Changes are locked for the 7 days before payout.
• Payouts to an address you entered are final. We cannot recover funds sent to a wrong address or network.
• A record of every payout is kept for the company’s accounts. The transaction hash is shown only in the winner’s private dashboard.
• Points never turn into cash.

9. Timeline

1. The month ends. The month-end job calculates scores, applies eligibility and caps, and builds the top 10.
2. 7-day review by hand for fraud and eligibility.
3. Winners are posted in the app and the public channel: username and rank only.
4. Winners are paid by the 10th of the month.
5. The transaction hash appears in each winner’s dashboard.

10. What is shown publicly

Winners are featured on the leaderboard under their auto-generated username, without prize amounts. Shown publicly: rank, username, monthly score, zone accuracy percentage, badge, a “Top 10” marker with the month, and a count of past top-10 finishes. Never shown publicly: prize amounts, wallet addresses and transaction hashes. Usernames are generated from two words and a number, filtered for offensive words, and never show a real name, email or wallet.

11. Non-cash rewards and points

Points can be redeemed for plan upgrades, extra MT5 accounts or extra simulator runs. A plan reward is applied as an upgrade on top of what you already pay, so your billing never changes. Every reward is a row in a points ledger that is never edited; the balance is the sum.

12. Your zones and the model

By submitting a zone you agree that it, its scored outcome and your accuracy rating may be used to train, validate and improve the scoring model, and that validated zones may be shown to paid members as community zones under your username. This licence is perpetual and survives closing your account, although your username is removed from displayed zones when you delete your account.

13. Taxes, sanctions and the right to withhold

• Winners handle their own taxes. Prizes may be taxable income where you live. We do not withhold tax and do not provide tax advice.
• Every wallet address is checked against sanctions lists before payment, and members in countries under comprehensive sanctions are not eligible. No identity documents are requested for prizes of this size unless the law requires it.
• We may withhold, delay, reduce or reclaim a prize where fraud, abuse of these rules, linked accounts, a sanctions match, a legal requirement or a payment-processor reversal affecting net revenue is found, including after a prize was announced.
• The programme is void where prohibited by law. It is not a lottery or gambling: prizes are awarded for measured accuracy and contribution, not chance.

14. Identity verification

We do not ask for identity documents to take part. Before paying a prize we may ask a winner to confirm their country of residence, to confirm control of the wallet address by signing a message or sending a small test transaction, and, where the total prizes paid to one person in a calendar year exceed a threshold set by applicable tax or anti-money-laundering law, to provide the name, address and tax identifier the law requires us to record. A winner who does not complete a verification we are legally required to perform within 30 days forfeits the prize for that month, and the amount stays with the company.

15. Score disputes and appeals

Scores are computed from the published rules by code, and the inputs for every scored zone (the zone, the timeframe, the scoring window and what price did) are visible on your rewards page. If you believe a zone was scored wrongly, raise it from that page or by email within 14 days of the month ending; disputes raised later cannot change a paid month. A person reviews the dispute against the rules and the data and replies within the 7-day review window. Our decision on scores, eligibility and fraud findings is final, except for any right you have under law. A fraud reversal is recorded in the ledger with its reason.

16. Nature of the programme

• The programme is a contest of skill: prizes are awarded for measured zone accuracy and contribution under fixed rules, not by chance, and no element of the outcome is random.
• No purchase is needed to submit zones, earn points or receive non-cash rewards. Cash prizes are limited to paid members because the pool is funded by subscription revenue, and a paid subscription confers no advantage in scoring beyond the submission limits in the table above.
• Taking part does not make you an employee, contractor, agent or partner of Zonelytix, and prizes are not wages, fees or compensation for services.
• The programme is void where prohibited. We may exclude countries where contest, gambling, securities or anti-money-laundering law would make a payout unlawful or impractical.
• We may suspend the programme at any time if the pool cannot be funded, the law changes, or the integrity of the scoring is in doubt; a month that has already ended is still paid under the rules in force for it unless fraud is found.

17. Changes to these rules

We may change the pool percentage, cap, split, scoring, limits or eligibility for future months, and may end the programme. Changes are announced in the app at least 14 days before the first month they apply to, and never apply to a month that has already ended. See also the Terms of service and the Privacy policy.