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# Communities

Bitnex Communities lets traders share their **real trading activity** with their audience — and lets members use those trades as **templates** for their own orders. Nothing is ever executed automatically.

## How it works

### For creators (community operators)

1. **Create your community** — name, photo, short description and your social links (X, Telegram, Discord, YouTube only).
2. **Auto-share is on by default**: everything you trade in the Bitnex terminal (spot and futures) is posted to your community automatically — opens, closes, and the final result. You can turn Auto-share off at any time from your community page.
3. Each trade appears in your feed like a position row: market, side, leverage, entry price, live PnL in $ and %, Stop Loss / Take Profit, and — when you close — the final Win/Loss result. Your win rate is computed from your closed trades.
4. **One community per wallet.** You can delete your community at any time and create a new one.
5. Your wallet address is **hidden by default**. You can make it public from your community settings.
6. You choose who can join:
   * **Anyone** — public, listed in Explore.
   * **Invite code** — private, only people with your code.
   * **My referrals only** — the profile is public, but only wallets referred by you can join and see the trades. New users get your referral code applied automatically when they join.
   * **Approval** — anyone can request; you approve or reject each one.

### For members

1. Join a community (directly, with an invite code, or as the creator's referral, depending on its access policy).
2. You'll see the creator's trades **live**, with entry, current price, PnL and SL/TP levels — plus a bell notification when a new trade is posted or closed.
3. **Trade this idea**: opens a small window where you can review the parameters (and edit leverage / SL / TP). Continuing takes you to **your own terminal**, preconfigured with those parameters. There you choose **your own capital**, review everything — including fees — and **sign your own order**, exactly like any other trade on Bitnex.

## What Communities is NOT

* ❌ It is **not copy trading**. No order is ever placed on your account automatically.
* ❌ It is **not financial advice**. Trades shared by creators are information about their own activity.
* ❌ Creators cannot charge for access on Bitnex, promise returns, or manage anyone's funds.

## Signed terms

The first time you act in Communities you'll be asked to accept the [Community Terms](/bitnex-docs/legal/community-terms.md) by **signing a message with your wallet**:

* **Members** sign once before using a trade as a template.
* **Creators** sign once before creating a community.

The signature is a free, off-chain `personal_sign` message (no gas, no transaction, it cannot move funds). Bitnex stores the signed acceptance as proof.

## Notifications

The bell icon in the navbar shows new trades and closed trades from the communities you're a member of. Notifications are in-app; push and Telegram alerts are planned.

## Fees

Orders placed from a community template pay exactly the same fees as any other Bitnex order (Hyperliquid's base fee plus the platform fee, always visible before you sign). Creators earn through the standard [Referral Program](/bitnex-docs/platform/referrals.md) when their members join with their referral code.


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