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# Discover funds and traders

Find traders by their recorded performance and discover the Rayze Funds built around them.

Capital follows trust, and trust follows reputation. On Rayze, your reputation is earned meritocratically — one position, one trade, and one thesis at a time. Before you invest in a Fund, you assess the trader behind it.

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Rayze Funds are currently waitlisted and will be available in October. Trader discovery, public profiles, leaderboards, and social activity are live now.
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## Performance driven discovery

Rayze gives you several ways to find traders without separating their identity from their record.

| Where to look           | What it shows                                                                            |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Trading leaderboard** | Traders ranked by PnL, account balance, trading volume, win rate, win streak, or return. |
| **Activity Feed**       | Public posts, recorded position opens and closes, and realized PnL.                      |
| **Global Search**       | Traders by username or wallet address.                                                   |
| **Public profiles**     | Social identity, account value and PnL history, trading statistics, and live positions.  |

The Trading leaderboard opens on **PnL**. Change the ranking metric to surface a different kind of trader: consistent winners, high-volume participants, larger accounts, or traders currently carrying a streak.

Select any public trader to open their profile. From there, you can inspect the full record, follow them, message them, or keep their activity close through the Following feed.

## Explore Rayze Funds

When Rayze Funds open in October, **Explore** becomes the marketplace for discovering them. The catalog is public, so Funds can be researched before signing in.

You can also browse the Fund categories available on Rayze or use Global Search to find a Fund by its name, category, or description.

Each Fund card connects the vehicle to the person managing it. At a glance, you can see the Fund's manager, assets under management, return, member count, and age. Select the card to move from discovery into the complete Fund record.

## Read the Fund page

A Fund page brings its identity, operator, capital, and activity into one view.

Select **Managed by** to move directly from the Fund to its operator's Rayze profile. This is where the two sides of the platform connect: the Fund shows what happened with investor capital, while the profile shows the trader's broader record.

## Two records, one decision

A trader's personal performance and a Fund's performance are related, but they are not interchangeable.

The trader profile records the decisions made through that trader's individual account. The Fund page records the capital, performance, holdings, and activity of the Fund itself.

A strong personal track record can explain why a Fund deserves attention. The Fund's own record shows what investor capital is exposed to.