About Yodoya
Yodoya runs simulated trading challenges and two head-to-head trading games on live crypto prices. This page says who is behind it, how it earns, and what it is not.
Who operates Yodoya
The company that will operate Yodoya is not registered yet. Its legal name, registered address and governing law will be published here and in the terms as soon as it is. Until then, every question about the service, a payout or the terms goes to the address on the contact page.
What Yodoya is
A trader pays a one-time fee for a simulated account and is evaluated against three published rules: reach +12% without losing 4% in a day or 5% overall. Pass, and the account becomes funded: still simulated, with no profit target, and eligible for performance rewards of 80% of simulated profit, paid in USDC. The rules page works through all of it on the $10,000 Large account.
Separately, two 1v1 games, the live trading duel and Chart Draft, are played for free (paid entries are paused).
What Yodoya is not
- Not a broker or an investment. No order reaches an exchange and no real capital is deployed, funded accounts included. Payouts are performance rewards owed under the terms, not investment returns.
- Not a custodian of trading funds. Challenge and funded accounts are simulated, so there is no client money in them to hold.
- Not regulated as a financial service. Statutory investor protections do not apply. Most people do not pass a challenge; treat the fee as money you are prepared to lose.
How Yodoya earns
From the spread on fills, from challenges that don’t pass. That means our financial interest runs opposite to yours, which is why the rules are fixed in one file and published rather than adjusted account by account, and why every fill and every price-feed freeze can be checked: see Fairness & Simulation and the status page. Every payout that settles is published with its transaction on the ledger.
Where the name comes from
In the 1600s the Yodoya merchant house ran a rice market in Osaka whose price became the reference for rice across Japan. It later became the Dojima Rice Exchange, where the candlestick chart grew up. The longer version → This Yodoya has no connection to the historic sites or any business of the same name.