Yes they are. You can get less when you trade less than 5 millions futures volume, but they put it as the main task with biggest reward. You know how exchange site did it to force their traders to trade more in getting maximum reward.
That's crazy. It's more as an incentive and not a reward. Who the heck is going to chase for that when they've just KYCed and passed on it.
But those that have been verified and trading there for so long, they can take that for however they want it to be. These are the kind of mechanics that are absurd.
Well, we see this often as there is no longer free meals from the exchanges. Even the launchpools, they want their own native token to be bought so users can participate.