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# Factions & Vaults
Colosseum is not only an individual competition. Factions and Vaults are the community layer — ways to compete and win together.
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## Factions
A faction is a team of traders. When you join a faction, your activity contributes to the faction's collective points pool — and in return, every member earns a **faction multiplier** applied to their individual point earnings.
### Faction Multiplier
The faction multiplier stacks with your rank multiplier and any active Bonus Windows. Every trade you make earns:
```
Points = Base Rate × Rank Multiplier × Faction Multiplier × Bonus Window Multiplier × Quest Multiplier
```
Active faction membership is one of the most reliable ways to increase your effective point rate without changing how you trade.
### How to Join a Faction
**Option 1 — Browse and apply:**
1. Open onchain.cc and go to the **Colosseum** tab.
2. Select **Factions**.
3. Browse the list of open factions.
4. Click **Join** on a faction to apply.
**Option 2 — Accept an invite:**
1. If a faction leader or member sends you a direct invite link, click it.
2. The invite takes you directly to the faction's profile page.
3. Click **Accept Invite** to join.
> **Info:** You can only be a member of one faction at a time. If you want to switch factions, you must leave your current faction first. Check the faction's member count and activity level before joining — a more active faction produces a stronger multiplier.
### Faction Leaderboard
Factions compete against each other on the faction leaderboard, ranked by total combined points across all members. Faction standings are updated in real time and are visible in the Factions panel.
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## Vaults
A Vault is a community campaign. The platform announces a **volume target** — a collective trading goal — and every trader on the platform contributes to it by trading normally. When the community hits the target, a **prize pool is distributed to all contributors**.
### How Vault Campaigns Work
1. **Target announced** — the Colosseum team opens a Vault with a specific volume goal (e.g., "$10M in 48 hours") and a prize pool tied to hitting it.
2. **Community trades** — every trade on onchain.cc during the vault window counts toward the collective target.
3. **Volume tracked in real time** — a progress bar on the Colosseum dashboard shows the current total vs. the target.
4. **Goal hit** — when the target is reached, the vault unlocks.
5. **Prizes distributed** — contributors receive their share based on their proportional volume contribution to the vault.
> **Info:** You do not need to do anything special to participate in a vault. Any trading you do while a vault is active automatically counts toward the community target. Check the Colosseum dashboard to see the current progress.
> **Warning:** Only trading volume accumulated during the active vault window counts toward the target. Trades before the vault opens or after it closes do not contribute.
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FACTIONS IN COLOSSEUM
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