Binance Spot Tournament Season 8: How to Join the PEPE/USDC and AI/USDT Race and the New Sprint Rewards

Season 8 at a glance

At the Binance BNB/USDT price of 731.17 USD (22:51 UTC on 22 October), the full 400 BNB pool was worth about 292,000 USD. That value moves with BNB, and the announcement notes the same.

Who can join

Binance opens Season 8 to verified new users, regular users and VIP 1 to 6 users who have Spot Trading enabled. Your VIP level is fixed at the moment you join: if you join at VIP 6 or below and climb to VIP 7 during the week, you stay eligible. Members of the Binance Spot Liquidity Provider Program and Binance Brokers cannot take part, and the event is not available in the European Economic Area. Product and deposit availability still depends on your region.

Step by step: join, trade, qualify

1. Verify your account. Only verified users who meet the criteria by the end of the promotion period can receive rewards.
2. Register on the landing page. Click "Join Now". Binance counts your volume only after you opt in, so trades placed before you register do not count.
3. Fund the right quote asset. PEPE/USDC needs USDC; AI/USDT needs USDT. Converting first is itself a trade on a different pair and does not add to tournament volume.
4. Trade at least 500 USD equivalent. Buys and sells both count. Buying 250 USD of PEPE with USDC and selling it again produces 500 USD of volume.
5. Watch the leaderboard. Binance updates it at least once every 24 hours on separate sub-pages for the main and sprint pools, and lists only users above the 500 USD threshold.
6. Redeem the voucher. After distribution, open Profile > Rewards Hub and claim it within 21 days; Binance says expired vouchers are not replaced.

Volume from master and sub-accounts counts, and so does volume from Spot Copy Trading and Trading Bots. API trades are allowed. Volume on zero-fee pairs, and transaction or gas fees, are excluded.

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How the 400 BNB is split

The main leaderboard pays fixed amounts to the top five (12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 BNB), then equal splits: 40 BNB across places 6–20, 40 BNB across places 21–50, 64 BNB across places 51–200 and 56 BNB across places 201–1,000. Everyone else who reaches 500 USD shares 80 BNB in proportion to their volume, capped at 0.05 BNB per person, about 36.6 USD at the BNB price above.

The Sprint Reward is the new part compared with Season 7. Each of the two sprint rounds pays 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 BNB to the top five traders by cumulative volume in that round. Binance says you can earn from the sprint pools and the main pool at the same time, so volume traded on 23 October counts for both sprint round 1 and the weekly ranking.

What 500 USD of volume costs you

On Binance's regular spot rate of 0.10% maker and taker, 500 USD of volume costs about 0.50 USD in trading fees, or about 0.375 USD if you pay fees with BNB and take the 25% discount Binance's fee page lists. The bigger cost is usually price movement: in the 24 hours to 22:51 UTC on 22 October, PEPE/USDC fell 6.21% to 0.00000438 USDC, while AI/USDT was up 0.52% at 0.0195 USDT. A round trip in a coin that drops 6% in a day can cost far more than the fee.

Liquidity also differs a lot between the two pairs. PEPE/USDC turned over about 4.6 million USDC in that 24-hour window, while AI/USDT turned over about 83.4 million USDT. Thinner books mean wider spreads on market orders, so limit orders matter more on PEPE/USDC.

Season 8 and Season 7 run side by side

Season 7, which we covered in our Season 7 guide, runs until 10:00 UTC on 28 October with ENA/USDC and VANA/USDT. Season 8 counts only PEPE/USDC and AI/USDT, so each tournament needs its own registration and its own 500 USD on its own pairs. If you join both, plan the two sets of trades separately rather than expecting one trade to qualify twice.

How to act on this

Reaching the 500 USD floor puts you in the proportional pool, where the cap is 0.05 BNB; leaderboard places need far more volume. Trade sizes you would hold anyway, use limit orders, and avoid leverage on a meme coin to chase a voucher. If you do not have a Binance account yet, open one through our Binance page with referral code 11350287 so your spot fees earn a rebate from the first trade. The Binance exchange profile also lists current fees and KYC steps, and our campaign board tracks other live exchange events.

What we could not verify

The announcement does not say whether PEPE/USDC or AI/USDT currently carries a promotional fee rate. Check the fee shown in the order panel before trading; volume on a zero-fee pair would not count.

Quick answers

When does Binance Spot Trading Tournament Season 8 end? At 10:00 UTC on 29 October 2026, which is 18:00 SGT.

Which pairs count? Only PEPE/USDC and AI/USDT on Binance Spot.

What is the minimum to get a reward? 500 USD equivalent of total volume in the eligible pairs after you register.

Can I win both a sprint reward and a main reward? Yes. Binance says the sprint and main pools can be earned at the same time.

When are rewards paid? Token vouchers arrive by 12 November 2026 in Profile > Rewards Hub and expire 21 days later.