Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)

Author | Nan Zhi (@Assassin_Malvo)

On March 21, the on-chain exchange Backpack Exchange announced the launch of the First Season of the Points Program, which will last for 10 weeks. It is currently in the third week, with plans to launch more seasons afterward. Backpack stated that it will distribute points to users weekly based on their activity across all products on the exchange, and the points criteria will be continuously updated and intentionally kept private, aiming to reward users who contribute to Backpack's development.

Backpack has not explicitly stated the connection between the points program and future tokens. This article will review and calculate the points situation based on the assumption that there is a direct correlation between points and token airdrops.

Backpack Background Introduction

In September 2022, Coral, the development company behind Backpack, announced the completion of a $20 million financing round, led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, with participation from Multicoin Capital, Anagram, K5 Global, and other strategic investors. According to information from The Wall Street Journal, Backpack Exchange was co-founded by former FTX General Counsel Can Sun and former Alameda Research software developer Armani Ferrante.

In April 2023, Backpack launched the first xNFT series Mad Lads on the Solana ecosystem. This NFT project gained immense popularity, with its trading volume once ranking first across the entire network, even surpassing the Ethereum ecosystem's blue-chip NFT project BAYC.

In October 2023, Backpack announced the launch of a "regulated" exchange, Backpack Exchange, and received a VASP license issued by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.

In April 2025, Backpack announced the official completion of its acquisition of FTX EU. From this day forward, Backpack EU has officially initiated asset recovery procedures and fund distribution processes, providing clear and convenient fund return services for former FTX EU users, helping them recover previously frozen fiat assets. After the completion of this acquisition, Backpack will reactivate the licenses held by FTX EU and will provide comprehensive cryptocurrency derivatives trading services within the European Union in the future.

Points Basic Rules

The first season of the points program distributes 10 million points weekly for 10 weeks, meaning a total of 100 million points for the first season.

Backpack stated that all activities such as spot trading, contracts, lending, deposits, and referrals can earn points, with points distributed every Friday at 10:00 AM (UTC+8). The official trading fee schedule is shown below:

Points Distribution Review

The points distribution for the first week is as follows:

The points distribution for the second week is as follows:

What are the Key Factors?

Here, we will divide the points by the trading volume to obtain the efficiency of earning points, that is, how many points can be earned for every 10,000 yuan traded, which is listed in the third column of the table (referred to as "ratio").

Based on the above two tables, it can be seen that points are positively correlated with trading volume, but trading volume is not the decisive factor for points efficiency, at least not the only decisive factor. Two accounts with similar trading volumes may have significantly different points distributions.

The factors causing this difference may be the closeness of the account to "real users." For "pure volume-filling" accounts, their trading volume is achieved through multiple quick in-and-out trades, characterized by low "profit and loss amounts" and short "holding times."

In the first week's community feedback collection, we saw several community members point out that "holding time" is a key factor. In the second week, more people believed that the "profit and loss amount" was modified by the official to be a more critical factor, as both large profits and large losses could effectively enhance the points distribution ratio, especially for the top performer in the second week, whose airdrop ratio was far higher than others.

Additionally, the author believes that "profit and loss amount/trading volume" is a highly positively correlated factor. By organizing the known data into the table below, we can clearly see that the higher the profit and loss amount/trading volume, the higher the points earning efficiency (ratio). Therefore, for non-volume-filling users, how to improve the profit and loss ratio is a key factor.

Points Value Estimation

Assuming that in the final airdrop, points are exchanged for tokens at a 1:1 ratio, and the initial circulating market value of the tokens is assumed to be $50 million, the total points amount is 100 million, thus the value of each point would be $0.5.

At the same time, we assume that the overall points efficiency (ratio) is 100 points/$10,000, meaning that to earn 1 point, a trading volume of $100 is required. The highest spot taker in the lowest tier needs a fee of $0.1, while the lowest contract maker in the lowest tier needs $0.02.

In this case, volume-filling trading is actually profitable, and the user who ranked first in the second week earned 2,178 points worth $1,089, which cannot compensate for a loss of $3,100. For users trading like real users, they should cautiously control their loss amounts and may even consider hedging trades with dual accounts.

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