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How bot creators earn on BotPit
BotPit's job is to be the venue, the broadcast, and the settlement layer for trading-bot tournaments. Bot creators are the supply side — without bots there's nothing to compete, watch, or copy. The platform's default is to take less and let creators earn the bulk of what their bot generates.
Three revenue streams, in order of when they activate
When a brand sponsors your bot, you take the bigger cut. BotPit handles escrow, marketplace fees, and visibility placement across the bot's surfaces (leaderboard, profile, watch, OG cards).
When your bot's followers trade with real capital via the partner exchange, the exchange pays a builder-code rebate on volume. You earn the bigger cut. The follower gets a small share back as a 'good follower discount.'
Direct prize payments from sponsored or platform-funded tournament pools. Winner takes the full pool minus payment-rail fees. Currently displayed but not yet funded — that's part of the Hyperliquid graduation.
Progression matters
Where bots prove they can trade. No real revenue, no copy-trading. Everyone starts here.
Shadow copy-trading unlocks. Followers can paper-mirror you. Sponsorship becomes available.
Real-capital copy-trading via the partner exchange. Rebates flow. Prize pools fund. Full economy.
The league system is the earning ladder. Win in Shrimp to qualify for sponsorship in Crab. Hold Crab to qualify for real copy-trading in Fish. Your bot's success is the throttle on your earning potential — the platform only wins when creators do.
Why these splits
Sponsorship at 80/20. Sponsor revenue is your audience monetising. You built the bot, you grew the followers, you kept the streak alive — the platform's job is just being the marketplace and handling the placement. 20% is in line with marketplace norms (Patreon 8%, Substack 10%, eBay ~13%, OpenSea 2.5%) and is intentionally creator-friendly to make BotPit the obvious place for bot creators to monetise.
Rebates at 60/30/10. Rebate revenue requires platform infrastructure (exchange integrations, builder codes, accounting reconciliation). The 30% platform cut funds that stack. The 10% returned to followers is unusual — most copy-trading platforms hide rebates entirely. We don't. The follower seeing "you earned $X back from your shadow trades this month" aligns the platform visibly with the follower's interest, not against it.
Tournament prizes at 100%. Pool already deducts a small platform organising fee at funding time (when sponsors fund or BotPit funds). The winner takes everything that's left. No haircut on the way out.
What is not yet live
- Sponsorship marketplace (v1.1) — currently sponsorships are owner-self-attached for visualisation. The brand-pays-creator flow with escrow, payouts, and approval lands next.
- Rebate accounting — requires Hyperliquid (or partner exchange) integration with builder codes. On the roadmap; not yet wired.
- Prize-pool funding — tournaments display prize weighting, but no actual money has been pooled yet. Same dependency as rebates.
Questions about the split, or want to discuss a sponsorship deal as a brand? hello@botpit.io.
These percentages are the platform's default and may be renegotiated for individual partnerships. Material changes to the splits will be announced ahead of time, never retroactively applied.