Introduction

Dupe Points reward activity that contributes to Dupe such as trading and improving liquidity and item pricing on Dupe. Points are earned in two ways: Market Making (weekly) and Trade Volume (per trade).

Trade Volume Points (Per Trade)

Every time you buy or sell an item on Dupe, you are contributing to the health of the marketplace through the buy/sell volume that you generate. As a result, Dupe rewards you for each trade that you make through Dupe points.

Trade volume points are calculated directly from the trade price:

• 1000 points = $100 trade volume
• 1 point = $0.10

Formula: points = tradePrice * 10 (rounded to the nearest integer).

Market Making Points (Weekly)

Market Maker points reward configurations that improve Dupe liquidity and pricing. The more favorable your market making setup is for buyers and sellers, the more points you earn.

Your weekly Market Making points are calculated from a few core factors:

• Bid Spread: Tighter spreads (closer to 0%) earn more points.
• Relist Premium: Lower relist premiums earn more points.
• Items and Rank: More unique items and lower ranked items earn more points.
• Item Price: Higher average item prices within a market making strategy earns more points.
• Capital Allocation: More allocated capital increases your multiplier.
• Platform Average Boost: Beat the platform averages on spread or premium to earn a bonus.
• Economic Contribution Gate: Spread and premium rewards are scaled by how meaningful your strategy is (item count + item value), which heavily reduces rewards for tiny ultra-cheap strategies.
• Deduplication: If the same item appears in multiple active configs, only the best config earns points for that item.

In short:

1. Raw points are computed for spread, premium, items, and price.
2. The spread + premium bucket is scaled by the Economic Contribution Gate.
3. Then base points are multiplied by liquidity/rank quality and later by capital tier, average boost, and any strategy incentive multiplier.

The items rank score uses the average rank across all items in your strategy (not just the best or worst item).

Current Category Weighting

Base points are capped at 7,000 and weighted as:

• Items: 2,300 (≈32.9%)
• Price: 1,700 (≈24.3%)
• Bid Spread: 1,500 (≈21.4%)
• Relist Premium: 1,500 (≈21.4%)

Note: spread and relist premium categories are additionally gated by the economic contribution multiplier before being added into base points.

Multipliers and Ranges

After base points, these multipliers apply:

• Liquidity Multiplier: 0.5x–1.2x
  Rewards strategies with more items and higher average prices.
• Economic Contribution Multiplier: 0.0x–1.0x (spread+premium only)
  Rewards strategies that provide meaningful breadth/value vs tiny strategies for cheap items.
• Rank Quality Multiplier: 1.0x–1.6x
  Rewards lower average item rank (more popular items).
• Capital Tier: 1.0x–5.0x
  Multiplier based on how much capital you allocate.
• Average Boost: 1.0x–1.5x
  Bonus for beat­ing platform averages on bid spread or relist premium.
• Strategy Incentive: 1.0x+ (per strategy)
  Dupe curated strategies may have booster incentives tied to them.

Capital Allocation Tiers

Your allocated capital applies a multiplier to your base points:

• $0–$500 → 1.0x
• $501–$1,500 → 1.25x
• $1,501–$3,000 → 1.5x
• $3,001–$5,000 → 2.0x
• $5,001–$10,000 → 2.5x
• $10,001–$25,000 → 3.0x
• $25,001–$50,000 → 3.5x
• $50,001–$100,000 → 4.0x
• $100,001–$250,000 → 4.5x
• $250,001+ → 5.0x

Platform Average Boost

If your configuration beats the platform averages (the average spread and relist premium accross all active market making strategies), you receive a bonus multiplier:

• Better bid spread (less negative than the average) adds a boost.
• Better relist premium (lower than the average) adds a boost.

Each side contributes up to half of the total bonus, capped at 1.5x overall.

Item Deduplication Rule

If the same item is present in multiple active configs, Dupe awards that item to only one config:

• The config with the better bid spread (closer to 0%, e.g., -2% beats -7%).
• If spreads are equal, the config with the lower relist premium wins.

Additional Protections

To keep rewards fair, the following rules are applied:

• If your bid spread is -22.5% or lower, that config earns 0 weekly points since it does not contribute to the liquidity of the marketplace.
• Relist premium must be 5% or lower to earn relist rewards if you are using "Price Source" for relist pricing method.
• Relist premium must be between 0% and 15% to earn relist rewards if you are using "Purchase Price" for relist pricing method.
• Items already active at the start of a reward period count immediately toward points.
• Items added later during the reward period must stay active for at least 24 hours before they begin contributing.
• Items contribute to points based on how long they were active within the reward period, not just whether they were added.

Clarifications

• Market Making points are calculated as a weekly preview when you configure a strategy and refreshed periodically.
• Trade volume points are awarded immediately per completed trade.

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Happy Trading!