Crypto prop firms evaluate and fund traders on digital asset pairs — majors, altcoins, sometimes perpetual contracts — in a market that never closes, weekends included. The core mechanics stay familiar: a paid evaluation, a simulated account, a profit split at withdrawal. What changes is the execution environment and the clock. Some firms route crypto CFDs through MT5 or cTrader, with a short pair list and overnight financing charges; others replicate an exchange interface, with perpetuals, funding rates and noticeably lower leverage.
Our 100-point score drives the ranking: trust and operating history first, then execution quality on crypto specifically, how coherently the risk rules translate to a market with no daily close, withdrawal terms and price. Pair lists, limits and costs sit in the dated table below.
Coming in at number 1, FTMO has been operating since 2015 and scores 88/100 on our scale. Entry starts at €79 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, tradingview.
Founded in Prague in 2015, FTMO reports more than $450 million paid to traders and closed its acquisition of broker OANDA in December 2025. The 2-Step challenge, static drawdown and no deadline, remains its core product, with fees fully refunded on the first payout. Price is the weak spot, and it rose again in 2026.
Ranked 2 on this list, FundedNext has been operating since 2022 and scores 85/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $59.99 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 95 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 5 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
On the forex and CFD side, FundedNext runs just two routes: Stellar 1-Step (10% target, 6% max loss) and Stellar 2-Step (8% then 5%, 10% max loss). Both use static drawdown, carry no deadline and come with refundable fees. Pricing is on the high side, and the headline 95% split needs a paid option — the contractual base is 80%.
Coming in at number 3, FundingPips has been operating since 2022 and scores 83/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $29 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 6 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 7 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit. Available on mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
FundingPips lets you choose the withdrawal rhythm and prices the split accordingly: 60% weekly, 80% biweekly, 90% on demand, 100% on a monthly cycle. Its four evaluation models keep static drawdown, with only the instant-funding Zero account switching to trailing. Against that, a Striking System closes a funded account on the fourth warning.
In 4th place, Goat Funded Trader has been operating since 2023 and scores 78/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $36 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 4 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, tradelocker, ctrader.
Goat Funded Trader launched in 2023 out of Hong Kong. It publishes a full price grid, runs static drawdown across its three evaluation models, and pays every 14 days with a profit split from 80 % up to 100 %. The counterweight: its Trustpilot score is suspended over fake reviews, rules tightened in summer 2026, and 29 countries are excluded.
Coming in at number 5, BrightFunded has been operating since 2023 and scores 76/100 on our scale. Entry starts at €47 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 8 %, with 4 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 30 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, dxtrade.
Set up in 2023 by a Dutch team and operated out of Dubai, BrightFunded keeps its rulebook short: no consistency rule, no time limit, static drawdown on both 2-Step plans. The model leans instead on paid add-ons — fee refund, 90% split, waived minimum days — and the first payout only lands 30 days after the first trade.
In 6th place, E8 Markets has been operating since 2021 and scores 76/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $110 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, tradelocker, match-trader.
Every E8 Markets product is now single-phase: a 6% target, withdrawals available from day three, and a split running from 80% to 100%. The trade-offs are a 35-40% consistency rule, no scaling plan, and a Trustpilot rating suspended in August 2026 for a breach of the platform's guidelines.
Coming in at number 7, Moneta Funded has been operating since 2025 and scores 72/100 on our scale. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 6 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule. Available on mt5, match-trader.
Moneta Funded was launched in late 2025 by broker Moneta Markets' group, advertising an 88 % profit split and allocation of up to two million dollars. Attractive terms on paper, but the firm is too recent to have a payout track record, and its site blocks automated verification of its pricing.
In 8th place, For Traders has been operating since 2023 and scores 59/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $49 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, tradelocker, ctrader.
Launched in 2023 and based in Dubai, For Traders covers forex, crypto and futures on MT5, TradeLocker and cTrader, with no time limit on its challenges. Trustpilot has suspended the firm's score for a breach of its guidelines and removed fake reviews; 19% of the 1,722 published reviews sit at one star.
Coming in at number 9, OFP Funding and scores 59/100 on our scale. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, news trading allowed. Available on ctrader, match-trader, tradelocker.
OFP Funding specialises in instant funding, with no evaluation, no profit target and an advertised 100 % profit split. This unusual positioning comes with signals that call for caution: Trustpilot has suspended the firm's rating, and 36 % of its reviews are one star. We classify it as under watch.
A market that never closes, rules written for one that does
Nearly every risk rule in prop trading was designed around forex: a daily loss limit bounded by a session, drawdown recalculated at the close, a weekend with no quotes. Applied to crypto, those rules create situations traders rarely anticipate. You need to know what time and in which timezone the trading day resets, whether a position opened on Saturday counts toward Sunday’s loss limit, and whether a trailing drawdown keeps updating while price moves outside conventional hours. The same question applies to public holidays and to scheduled platform maintenance, which can leave a position untradable while the loss clock keeps running. Careful firms spell all of this out; plenty do not, and the answer only appears once a dispute starts.
Two different products wearing the same label
The widest gap in this category is technical. On a CFD-based offer you trade a derivative priced by the partner broker: a short pair list, broker-set spreads, overnight swaps, and a feed that is not exchange data. On a perpetuals-based offer you get an order book, funding rates that pay or cost depending on your direction, and depth that varies sharply by asset. The consequences are practical rather than academic: carry and spread strategies behave differently across the two, and a liquidation cascade widens spreads far beyond what a backtest suggests. Confirm which altcoins are genuinely tradable rather than merely advertised, and read the policy covering gaps and volatility spikes.
Who should actually use this category
It suits traders already active in crypto with their own capital, comfortable sizing against volatility several times higher than major currency pairs, and willing to hold an account that moves while they sleep. Carrying forex position sizing into a crypto pair leads almost mechanically to a daily loss breach, and risk tools calibrated in pips rarely translate cleanly, so most traders rebuild their sizing model from scratch. Two further cautions apply. The segment is young, so payout histories are short and the trust pillar deserves extra weight in any decision. And withdrawals frequently settle in stablecoin, which means identity verification, a receiving address that must match the account holder, and network fees the trader absorbs.
Frequently asked questions
Can you trade weekends with a crypto prop firm?
The market stays open, but firms treat it differently. Some pause evaluations, others widen spreads or cut leverage from Friday evening to Monday. The critical detail is how the daily loss limit is calculated across that window, so check the reset hour and its reference timezone before holding anything over the weekend. Assume nothing from the forex rules you already know.
Which coins can you actually trade?
Majors are always covered; altcoin availability is usually narrower than the marketing page implies. On CFD-based offers the list depends on the partner broker and can change without notice. On perpetuals-based offers, order book depth becomes the real constraint, since a listed asset is unusable when the spread swallows most of the edge your strategy is supposed to capture.
How is this different from trading leverage on an exchange?
On an exchange your own capital is at risk and the position is yours. With a prop firm you risk an entry fee, trade a simulated account, and accept rules that can disqualify you. In return, a loss beyond the threshold does not touch your own money. You are trading a known maximum loss against imposed constraints on how you may trade.
How do crypto prop firm payouts work?
Usually in stablecoin to an address you provide, sometimes by bank transfer depending on the firm. Identity verification is required before the first withdrawal, and the receiving address must belong to the account holder. Budget for network fees and confirm which chains are supported, because sending a first payout on the wrong chain typically means losing it permanently.