Does personal finance bore you? With Arcade, we make it fun: Quests, Tournaments, and Rewards will guide you towards financial awareness. It starts on April 20
Arcade is the new face of Young Platform, a feature that will let you learn how to manage your finances in a completely different way: who said a banking app has to be boring? We certainly didn’t. But what is Arcade?
The final stage of a journey that began a year ago
On 18th March 2025, The Box was launched, the first episode of a trilogy designed to engage and guide our Community towards financial independence. Why was there a need for this? For a very specific reason: we are born and raised in an environment where everything revolving around money must be approached with caution, spoken in hushed tones, as if it were a taboo subject. Consequently, believing this to be the norm, we lose interest in managing our savings and leave our future to chance. But that shouldn’t be the case. Or rather: that’s not the case in the rest of the world.
In fact, as shown by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) data, Italy ranks 36th out of 39 countries in financial literacy: four out of five Italians cannot distinguish between simple and compound interest. This difference could potentially add a few zeros to your net worth.
Once we acknowledged the existence of these behavioural chains that have always limited our financial initiative, the second step arrived: The Unbox, the phase of breaking free from the virtual Box.
Once the Box was removed, concluding the phase of The Unbox, it was time for The Reveal: here, we paved the way for the grand revelation, the reality beyond the veil of uncertainty.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear Young Platform Community, let Arcade: Tap to Play begin!
What is Arcade: Tap to Play?
Let’s get straight to the point: Arcade: Tap to Play, or simply Arcade, is a new feature in the Young Platform app. You can find it in the bottom-right corner of the menu bar, alongside the Home, Market, Crypto, and Cash sections.
It is not a new competition: although the mechanics might remind you of the prize draws that have recently ended, Arcade is here to stay. And that is exactly the point: unlike The Box, The Unbox, and The Revea,l which, as we mentioned earlier, were designed as a phased journey, Arcade represents the natural conclusion of this path.
Arcade is the grand revelation; it is the destination reached after a long journey. It is what we promised you: a new way to experience finance free from prejudices, stereotypes, and financial advisors who only look out for their own interests.
Arcade is the tool that helps you regain control of your financial independence.
If it’s boring, it doesn’t work: that’s why Arcade was born
“If it’s boring, it doesn’t work” is one of the mantras that guide us when brainstorming new features for our ecosystem. Our goal, we reiterate, is to give you the tools to live a free and independent financial life, built on education and awareness of the risks and benefits.
The main problem: a high risk of boredom. After all, all the major banking apps, traditional or otherwise, try to teach financial literacy using tired, rehashed topics with poor results – as the OECD tells us. This only means one thing: there is no real desire to engage users – meaning the clients – and generate a concrete impact on their financial management.
How do we want to solve this problem? Very simply, by taking boredom out of the equation, we want you to have fun with Quests, Tournaments, Leaderboards, and Prizes. Yes, because Arcade rewards financially virtuous behaviours with incredible prizes: Rolex Oyster, MacBook Pro 14, iPhone 17, PlayStation 5, AirPods Max and about thirty other rewards – the main financial apps try to make you spend, while we want to help you save: funny, isn’t it?
To give a concrete dimension to what has been written so far, the first Chapter of Arcade has been dedicated to the new integration into the Young Platform ecosystem, which includes the payment account and the debit card.
Arcade grows with you, because no one is born knowing everything
We try our best, we come up with ideas, and we work hard to make them a reality. Arcade is the synthesis of this process. However, it doesn’t mean that what we imagine is always absolutely perfect: no one holds all the answers by birthright.
Why this philosophical introduction? Because Arcade is and will be a product in constant evolution, we will strive to improve the feature over time, innovating and updating its mechanics. All this thanks to the feedback and real-world experience of the Young Platform Community – and therefore, thanks to you too.
Arcade is about to start: have a read of the rules
On 20th April, at 2:00 PM, we will officially get the ball rolling: by logging into the app and signing up through the Arcade section, you will be able to start completing Quests to accumulate Gems, collect Tickets, enter the Tournament draws, and climb the Leaderboard.
At the end of this section, you will find links redirecting you to specific articles where you can learn – in no time at all – how Arcade works. If you have participated in previous competitions, you might already know the basic mechanics, but don’t take anything for granted: Arcade introduces some very exciting new features, such as the limited-entry Special Tournament, which features completely different dynamics.
Naturally, you will find all the details about the Special Tournament in the dedicated article below explaining how Tournaments work. Still, please note: as previously mentioned, participation is limited to 120 people. There are two ways to join the group of 120: by ranking in the top 100 on the leaderboard or by trying to win one of the twenty exclusive entry Passes.
A very important detail: to reward those willing to get involved, the 20 winners of these Passes will be drawn exclusively from participants in the first Tournament.
So, don’t waste any more time! If you are reading this article, you already have a head start over everyone else. Best of luck!