Last night, I was chatting with a bro who trades contracts. While munching on skewers, he showed me his phone and said he moved his positions from a CEX to some 'weird page'—the Ape Season 1 leaderboard on @OfficialApeXdex. The top spot had hundreds of thousands of points, and I was totally shocked. Went home, calmed down, and dug into the details. Turns out ApeX has really been putting in work lately: integrating Chainlink Data Streams to launch RWA perpetuals, plus a 12-week season with 69 million Ape Points up for grabs. They’re scoring across multiple dimensions + using the Gorilla Bid Fund to buy back and lock up points weekly, tying points directly to revenue. On top of that, they’re collaborating with Kaito for creator + trading campaigns, putting people who actually use and contribute in the spotlight. Among all the perp DEXs that just tell stories, this 'points + buyback + RWA/prediction market' strategy is seriously aggressive.