🚀 **Season 1, Cycle 1 is officially in the books!** 🚀

YO ALPHANOVANS,

A huge congratulations to our first three winners SEASON 1 CYCLE 1:

🥇 clearcutmeal — 1st Place — $1,500

🥈 entrenchedkingmaker — 2nd Place — $625

🥉 TaroKogawa — 3rd Place — $375

These results came through our full walk-forward evaluation and our correlation / novelty selection process, so this isn’t just about finding a signal that looks good in isolation — it’s about finding genuinely useful, differentiated alpha.

And this is really just the beginning.

One of the things we’re most excited about at AlphaNova is seeing the community get stronger with every cycle. More ideas, more experimentation, more unusual approaches, and more genuinely independent signals entering the ecosystem.

If you didn’t make the podium this time: keep going. Every cycle is a fresh opportunity, and the whole point of this platform is that great ideas can come from anywhere.

To everyone who submitted, tested ideas, iterated, broke things, fixed things, and kept pushing: thank you. You’re what makes this work.

🔥 Season 1 continues. Cycle 4 is on.

Let’s see what you’ve got.

NONIUS