Bonus Boost System and NFL Integration

This release introduces a comprehensive bonus boost system that allows admins to award time-limited boosts to users, with automatic application to eligible competitions through cron jobs. Additionally, NFL data ingestion capabilities were added with scheduled jobs for plays and game schedules, while the platform prepares for 30-day season intervals aligned with staking durations.

OpenAPI Documentation Tag Definitions Update

This release improves API documentation by adding missing tag definitions for key endpoint categories. The update ensures that Agents, Arenas, Leaderboard, NFL, and Perpetual Futures endpoints are properly categorized and documented in the OpenAPI specification, enhancing developer experience and API discoverability.

NFL Competition Scoring and API Improvements

This release focuses on fixing critical NFL competition scoring bugs and improving API documentation. Key fixes include ensuring all games are properly scored even when agents make no predictions, adding game scores and money lines to the NFL interface, and cleaning up OpenAPI specifications with correct security schemes. Infrastructure improvements enable the indexer service to run on Vercel via cron jobs.

NFL Competitions and Database Configuration

This release introduces NFL competition support, enabling sports prediction features for football games. Additionally, key environment variables have been migrated to database configurations, allowing administrators to dynamically adjust competition parameters like trade percentages and reward settings without code deployment. System reliability improvements include health check timeout configurations.

Vercel Cron Jobs Disabled for Investigation

This release temporarily disables Vercel cron jobs to address rate limiting issues. The team identified 429 (Too Many Requests) errors that require further investigation before re-enabling automated scheduled tasks.

Cron Job Request Method Fix

This release fixes a critical issue with scheduled task execution by correcting the HTTP request method used for cron job handlers. The update ensures compatibility with Vercel's cron job requirements by switching from an incorrect request method to the required GET method.

Secondary Airdrops and Infrastructure Improvements

This release enables secondary conviction airdrop functionality for stakers, migrating key features from the claim portal with improved database and API support. Additionally, the release includes infrastructure enhancements such as Vercel cron job integration, improved logging with Pino, and several UI fixes for competitions and rewards claiming workflows.

Arena Leaderboards and Blockchain Integration

This release introduces arena-based competition leaderboards, allowing users to browse arenas and view arena-specific rankings and competitions. Additionally, it enhances blockchain integration by capturing allocation events from the Rewards smart contract to maintain transaction tracking for on-chain reward allocations.

Arena-Specific Leaderboard Rankings Release

This release introduces arena-specific leaderboards that allow agents to compete and be ranked within individual trading venues. Each arena now maintains its own TrueSkill-based competitive rankings, enabling specialized performance tracking across different trading environments like Hyperliquid Perps and Open Paper Trading.

Multi-Competition Arena Management and Governance

This release enables the platform to support multiple simultaneous competitions with sophisticated governance controls. Key enhancements include participation rules enforcement (allowlists, blocklists, VIP status, rank requirements), per-competition reward eligibility configuration, and partner/sponsor management. The infrastructure now supports concurrent competitions with isolated balances, automated start/end scheduling, and boost decay mechanics for reward distribution.

Arena Management and Rewards Distribution

This release introduces comprehensive arena and partner management infrastructure, enabling better organization and grouping of competitions. It also adds automated rewards distribution reporting with Slack notifications for signers to review allocations. Additionally, the release includes UI improvements with rounded design elements and enhanced agent profile information including disqualification rates.

Competition Leaderboard and Rewards Automation

This release enhances competition management by improving leaderboard visibility and automating reward processes. Inactive agents are now displayed on competition leaderboards, providing complete participant visibility. Additionally, rewards calculations are now automatically triggered after competitions end, eliminating the need for manual administrative intervention.

USDC Address Updates and Balance Fixes

This release addresses critical issues with cryptocurrency trading execution across multiple blockchain networks. Key improvements include fixing balance lookup failures caused by address casing inconsistencies and updating USDC token addresses on Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism networks. Additional enhancements include new staking management features for unstaking, relocking, and withdrawing funds.

Competition Platform Enhancements and Rewards Automation

This release focuses on significant improvements to the competition platform user interface, including redesigned leaderboards, enhanced charts, and better metric visualization. It introduces automated safe transaction proposals for reward allocation, eliminating manual steps while maintaining security. The release also includes important fixes for USDC addressing on Base chain and improved data refresh rates for real-time competition updates.

Competition UI Improvements and Risk Metrics

This release focuses on enhancing the trading competition experience with a redesigned chart-first interface, countdown timers for upcoming competitions, and improved position tracking with better sorting and timestamps. It also introduces advanced risk metrics including Calmar and Sortino ratios for dynamic competition ranking, along with critical bug fixes for boost token conversion precision.

Competitions Health Monitoring and Rewards Enhancement

This release enhances the competitions platform with health monitoring capabilities, rewards claiming functionality, and improved leaderboard performance. The update includes infrastructure improvements with e2e testing framework, optimized competition data fetching with caching, and better error handling. Additionally, the release transitions from voting to a boost-based system and strengthens API reliability through enhanced error reporting.

Wallet Experience and Competition Requirements Enhancement

This release focuses on improving the user experience for wallet connections and token staking, including better display of RECALL token decimals and responsive navigation. It also introduces minimum funding thresholds for perpetual futures competitions to ensure all participating agents meet capital requirements, while delivering authentication improvements and various UI refinements across the competition platform.

Competition UI Enhancements and Bug Fixes

This release improves the competition experience with enhanced UI visibility and styling updates. The boost button now features improved highlighting with yellow accents, and competition results have been moved to a more prominent position. Additionally, a pagination bug affecting the Calmar ratio chart display has been resolved, and boost failure logging has been added for better system monitoring.

User Merge and Cache Stability Improvements

This release focuses on fixing critical bugs related to user account merging and data caching. Key improvements include proper handling of boost merging during user consolidation and enhanced data serialization in the cache layer. Additionally, the update includes optimization of social media preview images for better platform compatibility.

Empty Awards Handling Fix

This release addresses an issue with the awards system by ensuring empty available awards are properly returned. The fix improves the reliability of award retrieval functionality, preventing potential errors when no awards are available.

Code Cleanup and Redeployment Trigger

This release focuses on maintenance improvements by removing obsolete commented code. The changes primarily enable a forced redeployment of the system, ensuring the latest clean codebase is running in production.

Competition Staking and User Experience Enhancement

This release introduces staking requirements for competition participation with award boosting capabilities, allowing users to stake tokens to compete and boost rewards. The update includes significant user experience improvements including a cookie consent banner, responsive design fixes across mobile and desktop views, enhanced leaderboard functionality with clickable rows, and improved profile management with editable usernames and websites. Additionally, the release adds Calmar Ratio visualizations for perpetual futures competitions and resolves multiple UI bugs related to wallet connections and sorting functionality.

Wallet Connection and Mobile Experience Improvements

This release enhances wallet connectivity by properly handling authentication states for Privy users and detecting incorrect wallet or chain connections. Mobile responsiveness for staking functionality has been improved to provide a better user experience on smaller screens. Additional debugging capabilities have been added to support troubleshooting.

Competition Rewards and Performance Optimization

This release introduces significant improvements to competition rewards management, including support for post-TGE prize pools and dynamic reward allocation. It also enhances performance through caching and leaderboard optimizations while fixing several UI issues.

Competition Enhancements and Hyperliquid Integration

This release introduces major competition platform improvements including Hyperliquid support for perpetual futures trading, stake-based boosting mechanisms, and enhanced leaderboard functionality. The update adds CoinGecko as a configurable price provider for paper trading and implements restrictions limiting users to one agent per competition. Additional improvements include UI refinements to competition tables and leaderboards, along with backend optimizations through API endpoint cleanup and service architecture enhancements.

UI Polish and Visual Consistency Improvements

This release focuses on refining the user interface with fixes to fonts, colors, and visual elements across the application. Key improvements include standardized color palettes, corrected font weights and styles, enhanced hover states for navigation, and better integration of competition voting windows. The release also includes technical improvements by migrating several endpoints to serverless functions for better performance.

Serverless Migration and Configuration Improvements

This release focuses on architectural improvements by migrating user management endpoints to serverless functions and implementing type-safe configuration management with Zod. Additionally, it includes fixes to the perpetual leaderboard display and adds new RPC endpoints for competition data retrieval.

Leaderboard Improvements and Serverless Migration

This release enhances the competition system with separate leaderboards for trading and perpetual futures, while fixing critical data persistence issues for ended competitions. The platform transitions key user profile and authentication functions to serverless infrastructure, adds rewards and boosts integration, and improves performance with load testing capabilities and optimized data queries.

Competition Metrics and Risk Calculation Fixes

This release focuses on improving the accuracy and reliability of competition statistics and risk metrics. Key fixes include removing annualization from risk calculations for short-duration competitions, ensuring proper rounding of metrics, and adding missing statistics like volume and equity data. The release also includes UI improvements with a redesigned social links layout and enhanced SSL security for database connections.

Leaderboard Fixes and Sentry Optimization

This release fixes critical issues with the perpetuals competition leaderboard, ensuring agents are correctly ranked by Calmar ratio (risk-adjusted performance) and displayed in proper order. Additionally, it optimizes Sentry monitoring configuration to reduce costs by 99% while maintaining visibility into critical operations, and improves code architecture by moving business logic into the service layer.

User Boost Cache Key Fix

This release addresses a caching issue in the user boosts feature by including user IDs in cache keys. The fix ensures proper cache isolation between users, preventing potential data leakage or incorrect boost information being served to users.

Perpetual Futures Trading and Boost Features

This release introduces comprehensive perpetual futures live trading competitions with risk-adjusted rankings using the Calmar Ratio, enabling agents to compete using real perpetual futures positions. It also implements a new Boost API system replacing voting functionality, adds wallet sanctioning checks via Chainalysis integration for security compliance, and includes numerous architectural improvements moving business logic to the service layer.

Competition Boosts and API Reliability Improvements

This release introduces a full-stack boost system for competitions and significantly improves API reliability through service layer refactoring. Multiple bug fixes enhance the competition UI experience, API key retrieval, and cross-browser compatibility, while transactional database operations ensure data integrity for critical competition workflows.

Service Layer Refactoring & Bug Fixes

Major refactoring to move business logic into dedicated service layers, improving code maintainability and testability. Fixed critical issues with agent API key retrieval and vote table handling.

Performance Optimization and Leaderboard Platform Launch

This release introduces a unified AI benchmark leaderboard system with enhanced data architecture and real-time rankings. Major performance improvements include database optimization, API caching, and removal of full table scans. The platform also integrates Privy authentication, Sentry monitoring, and streamlines the codebase by removing deprecated applications.

General Updates

Various improvements, bug fixes, and maintenance updates to enhance platform stability and performance.

AI Leaderboard System & Performance

Launched unified AI leaderboard system with dynamic benchmarking, integrated agent rankings, and implemented API caching for improved performance.

Database Optimization & Code Quality

Major database performance improvements by eliminating N+1 query patterns, isolating schema code, and refactoring rewards system architecture.

Competition Management & Portfolio Tracking

Enhanced competition lifecycle management with better agent joining flows, improved portfolio snapshot handling, and various performance optimizations.

Query Performance & Testing Infrastructure

Reduced query complexity from 4N to constant time, improved testing infrastructure, and enhanced price fetching reliability.

Trading Constraints & Monitoring

Added per-competition trading constraint rules, implemented comprehensive logging with Pino, and enhanced database connection management.

Admin Tools & Competition Polish

Introduced admin deletion scripts, improved competition action flows, and enhanced UI/UX for competition details pages.

Performance & Codebase Cleanup

Removed scheduler overhead, cleaned up dead code, and optimized competition management queries for better performance.

Chart Components & UI Enhancements

Added comprehensive chart components for visualizing agent performance, improved competition detail views, and enhanced mobile responsiveness.

Email Verification & Docker Support

Implemented email verification for user accounts, added Docker image workflow for production deployments, and enhanced admin search capabilities.

Sandbox Mode & Repository Formatting

Introduced sandbox mode toggle for API, implemented voting banner UI, and performed repository-wide linting and formatting improvements.

Database Migration & Admin APIs

Added baseline migration system for production databases, enhanced admin APIs for agent and user management, and implemented object indexing.

Competition Transparency & Asset Support

Enhanced competition transparency with public asset lists, improved leaderboard calculations, and optimized blockchain data fetching.

Core API Routes & Schema Refactor

Major schema refactoring for better organization, implemented core competition and agent API routes, and enhanced database structure.

Authentication & User Profiles

Integrated authentication system, implemented user profile management, and enhanced agent profile UI components.

Voting System & Database Organization

Introduced voting system for agent competitions, reorganized database schema with dedicated trading schema, and improved Drizzle migration structure.

Competition Creation & Package Updates

Enhanced competition creation flow, upgraded wagmi/viem/rainbowkit dependencies, and improved error handling across the application.

Code Quality & Type Safety

Enabled TypeScript strict mode, improved prettier formatting across packages, and enhanced type safety for indexed access patterns.

Competitions App Launch

Initial launch of the Competitions web app with UI2 package, core functionality for viewing and participating in agent trading competitions.

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