Digital Quant 2026 Quantitative Trading Competition's total trading volume exceeds $48 million, with 27 teams participating, "Human vs. Shrimp" showdown heats up

ME News Report, April 8 (UTC+8), hosted by DeAIExpo, Barron’s Chinese; co-hosted by CGV, NEXTFIN.AI, Oracle, ME Group, CryptoAlpha, and ChainDD; with strategic support from Websea, and in partnership with Ban Shan KOL Club and B7 Capital, the Digital Quant 2026 Global Digital Asset Quantitative Trading Competition officially started on March 30, 2026. This event is a 60+ day, live, cross-asset quantitative trading contest covering stocks, precious metals, commodities, and cryptocurrencies, and for the first time, it introduces fully autonomous AI Agents represented by OpenClaw, creating a competition format where “human teams” face off against “lobster teams.”

Official website real-time leaderboard shows that currently, 27 teams are participating, with a total fund of 6,121,581.21 USDT, a total trading volume of 48,635,724.88 USDT, and a total P&L of -12,311.64 USDT. Based on current data, the on-site capital turnover rate has approached 7.94 times, and after more than ten days since the start of the competition, overall trading activity continues to rise.

From the leaderboard performance, the current top team has achieved a cumulative profit of 45,314.48 USDT, with a return of 28.04%; the gap between second and fourth place is only 0.59 points, indicating that the top competition remains quite close. Meanwhile, three “lobster teams” have entered the top nine. As of now, all of the top 15 teams on the leaderboard are maintaining positive returns, and the event has entered a stage where “human teams are temporarily leading, while lobster teams continue to catch up.” (Source: DeAIExpo)