Points Farming · 2026-11-12
Arcus: the dYdX Labs and Robinhood stock-token DEX paying 250,000 points every Wednesday
Overview
Arcus is a DEX built by dYdX Labs with Robinhood Crypto on Robinhood Chain, centred on round-the-clock spot trading of more than 95 tokenized stocks with zero spot fees, gradually extending to perpetuals on equities, crypto, commodities and indices. dYdX Labs has confirmed Arcus will issue its own token, separate from DYDX, with an allocation reserved for people who traded, staked or validated on dYdX. Season 1 distributes 250,000 points every Wednesday at 3pm ET, scored on trading, market making, retained deposits and referrals, with current boosts for stock-token trades and activity outside US market hours.
Requirements
Sign up with a wallet or Google and deposit USDC, USDT or BTC. Stock-token spot trades carry no fees and can be started immediately. Perps need an invite code, and a redeemed code requires a deposit or perps trade within 30 days to stay valid; codes redeemed before October 28 must be activated by November 27. Not available in the US, Canada, the UK and other restricted jurisdictions.
Reward
250,000 points per week, with no published conversion into tokens. A separate community allocation covers historical dYdX activity. Each $1 million of perps volume earns one invite code, and volume from people you refer also counts. The points program ends no later than the first half of 2027.
Deadline
Open-ended
Ongoing
Risk notes
One fact has to be stated plainly: on November 9 an attacker exploited a bug in how Arcus handled transfers between a user's own subaccounts and withdrew 2,234,391 USDG. Arcus paused withdrawals within hours, fixed the bug, blocked the attacker and covered the full shortfall from the Arcus Labs treasury, with no user balances affected and Season 1 points continuing as normal. That does not change the conclusion that the project is real, but it does mean the code is still being hardened, so do not park large balances there long term. Note also that stock tokens give price exposure rather than equity, with no voting rights or dividends. Wash trading, self-matching and rapid deposit-trade-withdraw loops get points reduced or zeroed, and slashed points go to other users.
How to take part
- Always enter through the official link listed under Source — never a shortened link from a stranger.
- Use a dedicated wallet. Start with a small transaction, confirm it behaves as expected, then scale.
- Check every requirement one by one, especially snapshot times and holding periods.
- Claim or confirm before the deadline — expired windows are rarely re-opened.