How to Register for the Phemex 2026 Ultimate Championship and Earn Early-Bird Golden Balls

The Phemex 2026 Ultimate Championship opens on June 8 with a $7,000,000 USDT prize pool. The traders who start earning Golden Balls in the early-bird window get a head start that builds across the entire tournament.

During the early-bird window (June 8 at 10:00 UTC to June 11 at 19:00 UTC), your first completion of each task earns an extra Golden Ball on top of the regular reward. That bonus adds up fast when you knock out onboarding tasks and start your daily tasks at the same time.

Golden Balls are the single in-game currency that powers the entire championship. You spend them on Victory Rush predictions ($300K pool) and guaranteed-win blind boxes ($600K pool). More Golden Balls means more predictions and more boxes across the tournament.

This guide walks you through registration, KYC, and every task available to start earning from day one.

Step 1: Create Your Phemex Account

Go to phemex.com/register. You need an email address or phone number. Registration takes under two minutes.

Once your account is created, you can browse the platform immediately. To participate in the Ultimate Championship and earn rewards, you need to complete one more step.

Step 2: Complete KYC Verification

KYC (Know Your Customer) verification is required to earn Golden Balls and receive any championship rewards. Without it, your tasks won't count and you won't appear on any leaderboards.

What you need:

• A government-issued ID (passport, national ID card, or driver's license)

• A selfie for facial verification

• A few minutes for the process

Go to your account settings and select Identity Verification. Follow the prompts to upload your document and complete the selfie check. Most verifications process within minutes.

Why do it now? KYC is the gate. Until it clears, nothing you do on Phemex counts toward Golden Ball rewards. Clear it before June 8 so you can start earning the moment the championship opens, and so your first task completions land inside the early-bird window.

Step 3: Register for the Ultimate Championship

This is a separate step from account creation. Navigate to the Ultimate Championship event page and register for the competition. You must register on the event page to activate Golden Ball earning.

This matters more than it sounds. Tasks completed before event registration do not count toward Golden Ball rewards. Register first, then start completing tasks.

Step 4: Start Earning Golden Balls

From June 8 at 10:00 UTC to June 11 at 19:00 UTC, your first completion of each task earns +1 bonus Golden Ball on top of the base reward. For the daily tasks and the progressive tasks, that bonus applies once, at your first completion, and does not stack across later days or higher tiers of the same task. After the window closes, you earn the standard amount only.

Golden Balls come from three groups of tasks: one-time onboarding tasks, repeatable daily tasks, and progressive tasks that scale with your commitment.

Onboarding Tasks (One-Time)

Complete these once and Golden Balls land in your account within 30 minutes. Knock them out during the early-bird window to collect the bonus on your first completion of each.

Register, complete KYC, and trade 100 USDT. This is one combined task. Register during the event, finish KYC, and reach 100 USDT in cumulative trading. It pays 2 Golden Balls, the largest one-time award on the board.

Invite a friend. Your friend registers, completes KYC, and reaches 100 USDT in cumulative trading. Earns 1 Golden Ball.

First spot trade (at least 50 USDT). Buy or sell any crypto pair on the spot market. Earns 1.

First futures trade (at least 100 USDT). Open a position on the futures market. Earns 1.

First prediction market trade (at least 50 USDT). Place a trade on the Phemex Prediction Market. Earns 1.

First Earn subscription (at least 1,000 USDT). Put at least 1,000 USDT into a Phemex Earn product. Earns 1.

Follow Phemex on X. Follow the official Phemex account linked on the event page. Earns 1.

Join the Phemex Telegram community. Join the official Telegram group linked on the event page. Earns 1.

Clearing all of these inside the early-bird window puts you ahead of traders who register after June 11.

Daily Tasks (Repeatable)

Daily tasks reset every day during the championship window (June 8 to July 20) and generate the bulk of your Golden Ball income across the tournament. Each daily task uses the same reward ladder:

The count is cumulative, not consecutive. A missed day pauses your progress without resetting it, so the per-day reward keeps climbing the more days you trade. At the 30-day tier, a single day pays 20 Golden Balls.

The five daily tasks, each on the ladder above:

• Daily futures trading. Trade at least 1,000 USDT in futures volume that day.
• Daily spot trading. Trade at least 100 USDT in spot volume that day.
• Daily copy trading. Run at least 3,000 USDT in daily lead-trade volume on copy trading. Both newly opened and closed positions during the campaign count toward your volume.
• Daily prediction market activity. Trade at least 100 USDT in Prediction Market volume that day.
• Daily Earn holding. Hold a net Earn position of at least 2,000 USDT during the event.
• Task data updates every 30 minutes. You may not see Golden Balls appear instantly after completing a task. Wait 30 minutes and check your balance.

Progressive Tasks (Scale With Commitment)

These reward larger or longer commitments. They sit outside the daily ladder and pay at their own thresholds.

Fiat deposits. Cumulative fiat deposits pay at four tiers:

Eligible deposits include fiat purchases via credit or debit card, bank transfer, third-party payments, or C2C transactions. Internal transfers between Phemex accounts don't count. The net-deposit standard applies: total deposits minus total withdrawals during the event.

Trading bot runtime. Run a trading bot (grid, Martingale, or AI Bot) with at least 20 USDT invested and at least one trade. Rewards scale with cumulative runtime:

VIP status. Upgrade to VIP during the event, or complete this directly if you are already a VIP at registration. Earns 10 Golden Balls.

FAQ

How long does KYC take?

Most verifications process within minutes. In rare cases it can take up to 24 hours. Complete it before June 8 if possible so you are ready to earn Golden Balls from the moment the championship opens.

Do I need to deposit money to earn Golden Balls?

Two tasks need no deposit at all: following Phemex on X and joining the Telegram group. Most of the rest, including the register-and-KYC task and every daily task, require trading activity, which means a funded account.

What if I already have a Phemex account?

You still need to register on the Ultimate Championship event page separately. Your existing account works. Complete KYC if you haven't, register for the event, and start completing tasks.

Can I earn Golden Balls before June 8?

No. Golden Ball earning activates when the championship opens on June 8 at 10:00 UTC. Tasks completed before that time do not count.

What happens to unused Golden Balls?

They expire on July 20, 2026 at 09:59:59 UTC. Unused Golden Balls and unopened boxes have no cash value and cannot be refunded. Spend them before the championship ends.

Which tasks earn the most Golden Balls?

The five daily tasks (futures, spot, copy trading, prediction market, and Earn holding) each reach 20 Golden Balls per day at the 30-day cumulative tier. Trading bot runtime reaches 20 at 30 days as well. For most traders, running several daily tasks at once is the highest-yield approach across the tournament.

What to Do After the Early-Bird Window

Once the tournament kicks off, three priorities drive your daily Golden Ball earning:

Keep trading daily. The ladder tracks your cumulative trading days, so each day you trade lifts the per-day reward. Day 1 pays 1. Day 3 pays 3. Day 7 pays 6. Day 14 pays 10. Day 30 pays 20. A missed day doesn't reset you, it just doesn't add to the count, so the steadier you are, the faster you climb.

Make predictions at every stage. As each tournament round plays out (Group Stage, Round of 8, Round of 4, the team and winner stages), new prediction stages open. Deploy Golden Balls on each one. Correct predictors split that stage's prize pool equally, so the balls are your entry into more stages, not a bigger slice of any single one.

Open blind boxes or save strategically. You can spend Golden Balls on blind boxes any time (3 balls per box, every box wins). Or save them for the later prediction stages when the pools get larger, with $40K on the third-place match winner and $60K on the Champion. Your call on timing.

For the full breakdown of all tracks, prize pools, multipliers, and the Trading Showdown, read the Phemex 2026 Ultimate Championship Complete Guide.