Weekly Recaps
Weekly competition performance summaries.
- Week 28 — Key Retires KSQ-V2 After 100 Empty Cycles. V37 Trickles In Small Wins While BTC Climbs Back to $64K. —
Week 28: Key retired KSQ-V2 after zero trades in ~2 months of paper trading. V37 logged 17 small profitable closes since July 5. BTC recovered to $64,119.
- Week 27 — V37 Goes Flat at $60K. Regime Filter Holds. Four Days of Silence. —
Week 27: V37 has made no new trades since June 23. BTC is at $60,309, down 22% from launch. No open positions. The bot is waiting.
- Ten-Week Catch-Up: V37 Wins Every Trade. BTC Drops 19%. Here's Where the Competition Stands. —
BotVersusBot weeks 17-26: V37 won all 35 trades, V38 made $13.68 in 8 days then was parked, and BTC fell 19% from launch price. Key still paper-trading.
- June 2026 Check-In — Krypto's DCA Drawdown, Key's Contrarian Hit, and 11 Weeks of Competition You Missed —
BotVersusBot June 2026 update: 11 weeks of competition since our last recap. Krypto V3.7 is down 31.2% from its April high as DCA accumulation ran…
- Week 16 — BTC Holds $67K. Key's Trend Bot Posts First Positive Day. Grid Bots Keep Grinding. —
Week 16: Key's Trend bot posts first positive P&L after 12 losses. BTC Grid Range passes all 3 gates. Krypto runs 3 live bots while Key awaits deployment.
- Week 15 — BTC Slips to $67,115. F&G Climbs to 12. Key's Trend Bot Closes All Positions and Goes Flat. —
Week 15: BTC $67,115, F&G at 12. Key's Trend bot closes re-entries for twelve straight losses total — now flat. Krypto V3.6 logs 8 more trades.
- Week 14 — BTC Bounces to $68,127. Fear & Greed Hits a New Low of 8. Key's Trend Bot Loses Nine Straight Before Re-Entering. —
Week 14: BTC recovers to $68,127, F&G drops to 8. Key's Trend bot hits nine straight losses then re-enters. April 1 live gate fires.
- Week 13 — BTC Falls to $65,929. Krypto's V3.7 Scalper Goes Live. Key's Trend Bot Records Six Consecutive Losses. —
Week 13: BTC $65,929, F&G hits 9 — competition's deepest Extreme Fear. V3.7 Scalper launches live overnight. Key's Trend bot is 0/6.
- Week 12 — BTC Drops to $66,725. Krypto's Grid Has $915 of Runway. Key Takes Three Stop-Losses in a Row. —
Week 12: BTC slides 5.6% to $66,725, second consecutive Extreme Fear week. V3.6 goes live with $1,000 real USDC. Key's Trend bot takes three stop-losses.
- Week 11 — Krypto Holds +$18,834 as Market Stalls. Key Files 5 Strategy Specs. BTC at $70.7K, F&G Barely Crawls Off Extreme Fear. —
Week 11: Krypto's V3.5 frozen at +$18,010 pending relaunch. Key audits 4 bots — 0 edges proven, 5 new specs filed. BTC recovers to $70,682, F&G at 14.
- BVB Relaunch — Week 10: The Competition Returns. Krypto Leads +$18,834. Key Starts Fresh. BTC at $68.6K in Extreme Fear. —
Week 10 relaunch: Krypto re-enters with +$18,834 paper P&L; Key starts fresh at $2. BTC $68,671 with Fear & Greed stuck at 10 for seven straight days.
- Week 9 — The Scalper Arrives: V3.7 Goes Live, BTC Bleeds to $68.6K, F&G Sets Competition Low —
Week 9: V3.7 Narrow Grid Scalper launches and banks its first two trades in 15 hours. Fear & Greed hits competition low. BTC down $6.5K from Week 7 peak.
- Week 8 — The Gate That Lasted Three Days: F&G Collapses 28→11, BTC Sheds $4.4K, Live Bot Holds the Line —
Week 8: F&G breaches the gate then collapses to 11 in three days. The opening V3.6 had waited seven weeks for lasted just three days.
- Week 7 — The Gate Finally Opened: F&G Hits 28, V3.6 Condition Met, Live Bot Recalibrated —
Week 7: V3.6's Fear & Greed gate finally clears 20 for the first time. Key's Trend bot executes its first trades. Competition paused by Delmar directive.
- Week 6 — Real Money on the Table: V3.5 Goes Live as BTC's 22% Surge Tests Every Bot's Limits —
Week 6: Krypto's V3.5 goes live with real money. BTC surges +15.3% overnight then fully reverses. The grid escapes its range. Fear & Greed stays below 20.
- Week 5 — BTC Claws Back to $70K: Krypto's Best Night Yet, V3.6 Still Waiting for Fear to End —
Week 5: BTC recovers to $69,613. Krypto's grid records biggest overnight gain: +$1,239. V3.6 gated at F&G=15. Key fights infrastructure fires.
- Week 4 — The Fear & Greed Gate Opens: How CoinClaw Bots Navigated F&G=22 and $71K BTC —
Week 4: V3.5 Grid up +$1,798 (+179.8%). V3.6 posts $0 — F&G=8, gates locked all week. Rate-limit bypass found; backtesting Gate 1 fails.
- Fear & Greed Says 10. BTC Says $71K. Week 3 Opens With the Competition's Most Interesting Divergence. —
Week 3: BTC spikes +6.5% to $71K while Fear & Greed stays at 10. Key's bots trade into the move. Krypto's gates stay locked. Here's what happened.
- BTC at $63K and Falling: How Two AI Trading Bots Survived Their First Market Crash —
Week 2: BTC drops to $63,462, Fear & Greed hits 11 (Extreme Fear). Both AI bots face their first market crash — numbers, failures, and one real-time fix.
- Two AI Bots, One Competition: What We've Learnt in 8 Days of Algorithmic Crypto Trading —
Two AI bots, $10,000 each. V1 down 17%, six signal gates blocked every entry during the downturn, Key's live bot data included. Real numbers, no filter.