> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.dega.trade/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What counts as prohibited conduct - URL: https://blog.dega.trade/what-counts-as-prohibited-conduct/ - Published: 2026-10-13T09:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-10T20:11:04.000Z - Description: Six kinds of conduct close an account without payout. How monitoring and human review work, what must be proven, and why the rules protect the reserve. - Author: Dega editorial - Tags: Rules Here is a plan that sounds clever. Open two accounts. Go long on one and short on the other. Whatever the market does, one of them is winning, and a winning account gets paid. It does not work on Dega. Not because someone gets to decide your payout, but because it is on a short written list, enforced on evidence. ## The prohibited list The paper lists six kinds of prohibited conduct: - Cross-account hedging or arbitrage, across Dega accounts or against a third-party venue. - Copy trading, signal services, and externally sourced strategies that are not your own. - Account sharing, or multiple accounts operated by one person. - Exploiting platform errors, latency, or pricing anomalies in the simulation. - Identity fraud or false registration. - Strategies that could not be replicated in live markets at the same size. The paper is explicit about what these rules are for. They exist to stop a small number of specific abuses, and they must never become a general discretion to refuse payouts. That discretion is what the product exists to remove. ## Monitoring and human review Enforcement is automated monitoring with human review. Detection is written into the paper as a monitoring requirement on engineering, not a policy aspiration. This is where people come in, so it is worth being precise. A payout has no discretionary approval step. When a funded account is in profit and flat, you can withdraw 80% of the profit above the starting balance on demand, paid in USDG on Robinhood Chain and settled by smart contract, with no discretionary approval in between. Payouts are paced at up to $800 per person per day, within a lifetime limit of 20% of the deployable reserve at the moment the account is funded: $4,000 at the recommended $25,000 seed. Conduct is different. A conduct determination is reviewed by people, and it has to be evidenced. ## What has to be proven A determination must be evidenced and recorded, and you are told which rule was breached and on what basis. The outcome then follows the evidence, in both directions: - Where conduct is proven, the account closes without payout. - Where it is not proven, the payout is made. Suspicion alone does not close an account. Proof does. ### One person, two accounts The plan at the top needs two accounts at once. The rules already set what one trader may hold: one assessment and one funded account, and the two may run together. If the assessment passes while the funded account is open, its activation waits until the funded account closes. The one-assessment limit has its own reason in the paper: parallel attempts at the same target multiply exposure to one trader's luck. Getting around those limits, through account sharing or a false registration, is prohibited conduct. If one person is found operating two accounts, both close without payout. The same standard applies: the determination must be evidenced, and you are told which rule was breached. ## Why the rules protect the reserve Every payout comes from one place. The USDG reserve on Robinhood Chain takes in assessment fees and pays traders out, and no payout is ever made from anywhere else. It is publicly visible, and it is a hard ceiling. More in [why the reserve is public](https://blog.dega.trade/why-the-reserve-is-public/). Dega hedges its total payout obligation with real positions on Lighter. Those positions are Dega's own, never yours, and they are sized from the net exposure across the funded book. Offsetting positions across two Dega accounts, or against your own position on a live venue, build a payoff that hedge is not sized for. That is why the paper says the first rule carries more weight under a hedged book. The simulation rules protect the same thing. Unrealistic fills give sophisticated traders a free edge, raising the pass rate and the liability together. Exploiting latency or pricing anomalies in the simulation, or running a strategy that could not be replicated in live markets at the same size, is a way of taking that edge. When abuse is detected, Dega must be able to stop selling assessments and activating funded accounts, without blocking any payout already earned. A payout won by an exploit comes out of the same reserve as every honest trader's. Keeping the list short, evidenced and enforced is how that reserve stays there for everyone else. --- *Nothing has launched. Every figure in this post is a design figure from the Dega yellow paper, version 2.0, dated 22 September 2026\. Dega is not an exchange, broker, custodian or investment manager. Accounts are simulated: orders do not reach Lighter's order book, and the account balance is not your money. Dega's hedge positions are Dega's own, never yours. Payouts are subject to a lifetime limit of 20% of the publicly visible reserve and a per-user cap of $800 a day.*