Best Crypto Prop Firms in 2026

This table lists every firm on this page by tier. Execution tells you whether your order hits a real exchange order book or a CFD price feed built by the firm's own liquidity provider. That single column decides more about your trading experience than any profit split.

*"Up to 100%" splits require scaling milestones. Read each firm's payout section for the starting number, not just the ceiling.

A crypto-native prop firm routes your order to a real exchange order book. A crypto CFD firm prices your trade off its own liquidity provider feed. Both call the product "crypto trading." Only one of them lets you check your fill against the exchange chart you were watching.

What real exchange execution means

HyroTrader connects to Bybit by API. Your order hits Bybit's live order book, and you can verify the fill independently on a personal Bybit account. Propr routes trades to Hyperliquid, an on-chain exchange, and publishes every payout with a transaction hash on the Ethereum block explorer. Breakout runs on Kraken's infrastructure through its own Breakout Terminal. In all three cases, the price you got is the price the exchange printed.

What a crypto CFD is

FXIFY, Hola Prime, and E8 Markets price crypto as a contract for difference. The broker sets the spread, and the price feed comes from a liquidity provider chosen by the firm, not from a single named exchange. During a fast move, the wick on your CFD chart can look different from the wick on Bybit or Coinbase. That gap matters most at the exact moment your stop or your drawdown limit gets tested.

The two tells that give it away

Pair count is the first tell. HyroTrader lists 700+ pairs because it runs on Bybit's full market. FXIFY lists 80+ because a CFD desk only builds a synthetic price for the pairs traders actually ask for. Leverage is the second tell. Klein Funding's Bybit side runs up to 100x. Its own in-house Cleo platform, built for lower-risk retail flow, caps out at 5x on BTC and 2x on everything else. A firm offering 2x on altcoins and 5x on BTC is almost always running a CFD book underneath.

Funding rates are the third difference. HyroTrader and Breakout traders pay or receive a funding rate on perpetual futures every few hours, the same way they would trading directly on Bybit or Kraken. CFD accounts charge an overnight swap fee instead, calculated by the broker rather than by the exchange.

A crypto prop firm is three layers, and the firm itself is usually the thinnest one. The exchange holds the order book. The terminal is what you look at. The firm owns the rulebook, the evaluation, and the payout. Knowing which exchange sits underneath a firm tells you more than the firm's own marketing page does.

Exchange layer

Bybit powers HyroTrader, Klein Funding's Bybit plans, and Crypto Fund Trader. Kraken powers Breakout, through the Kraken subsidiary Payward Oceanic Ltd. Hyperliquid, an on-chain perpetuals exchange, powers Propr.

Terminal layer

HyroTrader traders can execute on Bybit's own interface, on Tealstreet, or on CLEO. Tealstreet is an independent derivatives terminal that also connects to OKX. CLEO runs on Binance market data and is the fallback for traders in jurisdictions where Bybit restricts access, including the US. Breakout built its own Breakout Terminal for web, iOS, and Android, wired directly into Kraken's liquidity.

Hydra Funding's execution claim is self-reported by the firm and repeated in FundedTrading.com's review. It differs from HyroTrader's model: Hydra prices off an aggregated feed across exchanges rather than routing a specific order to a single exchange's book, so independent fill verification is not available the way it is with a direct Bybit or Hyperliquid connection.

The practical question to ask before buying any "crypto prop firm" challenge: which exchange, whose account, and can you verify a fill independently. If a firm cannot answer that clearly, the account behind your evaluation is almost certainly a CFD book, not an exchange seat.

Every firm in this tier routes orders to a named exchange or a public blockchain, not to a synthetic CFD feed. Pair counts run from 62 to 700+. Leverage tracks the exchange it runs on, not a broker's own risk table.

1. HyroTrader

HyroTrader connects funded traders to Bybit by direct API, which means every fill can be checked against a personal Bybit account. Founded in 2023 under Hyro Finance j.s.a. in Slovakia, the firm has processed over $3.5 million in payouts and won Best Crypto Prop Firm at the 2025 ProFX Awards in Dubai.

Profit split starts at 80% and rises 5% every 4 months of consistent funded trading, reaching 90% after 16 months. Payouts settle in USDT or USDC within 12 to 48 hours, and the challenge fee refunds with your first payout. The rule that catches traders out: a mandatory withdrawal triggers once your funded account hits 5% profit above the starting balance, so you cannot let profit compound indefinitely inside the account.

Best for: Traders who already trade on Bybit and want direct exchange execution without switching platforms.

2. Klein Funding

Klein Funding runs two separate products under one brand: a Bybit-connected account with real exchange execution, and an in-house Cleo account with lower leverage and daily payouts. Launched in 2024 under KUENTECH LLC and based in London, Klein Funding won FundedTrading.com's Best Crypto Prop Firm 2025 award for its Bybit partnership and its choice between five account types.

Cleo Flex is the cheapest entry point in this entire list at $28.50 for a $5,000 account, with a 9% profit target and no minimum trading days. The Bybit side costs more but gives up to 100x leverage on real exchange execution. Klein Funding states it has paid over $3.2 million to traders across 130+ countries since launch.

Best for: Traders who want either the cheapest crypto challenge on the market (Cleo Flex) or full Bybit-level leverage, in one firm.

3. Propr

Propr is one of two firms on this page that settle on-chain through Hyperliquid, alongside Carrot Funding. Every trade routes through Hyperliquid's order book, and every payout posts to propr.xyz/transparency with a live Ethereum transaction hash. Built by XBorg and backed by SwissBorg through a $1.5 million seed round, Propr funds accounts up to $100,000 each and $300,000 in aggregate across 150+ perpetual markets covering crypto, equities, commodities, and forex.

Propr pays a flat 80% split on every account size, with payouts averaging 5 hours and settling in USDC on Ethereum. Propr discloses a hybrid A-book/B-book execution model, meaning some trades route to Hyperliquid and are verifiable on-chain while others are recorded internally with the same payout outcome. Every trade on the dashboard is labelled A or B.

Best for: Traders who already use Hyperliquid and want a verifiable, on-chain funded account with no MetaTrader option.

4. Crypto Fund Trader

Crypto Fund Trader runs real evaluation challenges with documented payouts going back to 2022, six account sizes from $5,000 to $200,000, and the deepest crypto instrument list on this page at 715+ pairs, powered by a direct Bybit integration. Set against that, Crypto Fund Trader has sat on FINMA's public warning list since August 2024, and its Trustpilot rating currently shows as unavailable due to a guidelines breach. Both are checkable facts, not forum rumor.

Scaling runs from $5,000 up to $1,280,000, with the profit split increasing through the levels from 50% up toward 90%. The consistency rule caps any single day at 40% of total profit on a funded account, which matters for crypto traders whose edge often comes from one large move rather than steady daily gains.

Best for: Traders who want the deepest pair count on this list and are comfortable making their own call on the FINMA listing and the payout dispute above after reading both directly.

5. Hydra Funding

Hydra Funding runs crypto as its own dedicated product line, not a bolted-on instrument list. The account builder separates Forex, Crypto, and Futures into distinct markets, and choosing Crypto locks in its own funding models (Instant Lite, Instant Prime, Instant Pro) and its own platform choice between DXtrade and GooeyPro. FundedTrading.com's own review lists Hydra Funding's crypto instruments as real on-exchange liquidity priced from an aggregated Binance and OKX feed, not a synthetic CFD book, and scores the firm 8.2 out of 10. Founded in January 2022 and based in the United States, Hydra Funding won FundedTrading.com's Most Innovated award in 2024.

Hydra Funding allows weekend holding on crypto, a real requirement given crypto trades 24/7, though some plans charge an add-on fee for it. Payouts run on-demand with no profit cap, and a 5% profit buffer applies before the first withdrawal on Instant Lite. Hydra Funding holds a 3.9 out of 5 Trustpilot rating.

Best for: Traders who want instant funding with no evaluation, specifically on a dedicated crypto product rather than a shared multi-asset rulebook.

6. Breakout

Breakout is the only prop firm owned by a major exchange. Kraken acquired Breakout Trading Group in September 2025, and the product now runs as Kraken Prop, operated through Kraken subsidiary Payward Oceanic Ltd and built directly into Kraken Pro's infrastructure. Every order routes through Kraken, and Breakout applies zero consistency rules, no minimum trading days, and no profit cap.

Four evaluation paths run from a 9% profit target on 1-Step Turbo up to a 2-Step Classic with an 8% trailing drawdown across two phases. The default profit split is 80%, upgradable to 90%, and payouts settle in USDC on-demand, 24/7, usually within 24 hours. Breakout states it has paid out over $38 million since launch.

Best for: Traders who want the strongest institutional backing in crypto prop trading and the simplest rulebook on this list.

7. Carrot Funding

Carrot Funding is the second Hyperliquid-native firm on this page. FundedTrading.com's review confirms every Carrot Funding challenge runs live on Hyperliquid's on-chain order book, with execution, capital, and profit-sharing enforced and verifiable on-chain. Founded in July 2025 and based in the United Arab Emirates, Carrot Funding scores 8.0 out of 10 and holds a 4.6 out of 5 Trustpilot rating, though FundedTrading.com's own trader review section for the firm has zero submissions so far.

Carrot Funding pays out on-demand, usually within 24 hours, with a $100 USDC minimum payout settled on Arbitrum. The 2-Phase challenge sets a 5% daily loss limit and 10% max drawdown with no minimum trading days and no time limit. Carrot Funding also runs a referral program paying 10% lifetime revenue share on referred traders' challenge fees and net profits.

Best for: Traders who want on-chain execution across a wider asset mix than crypto alone, verified the same way as Propr.

Every firm in this tier trades crypto as a CFD. Leverage runs lower than the Tier 1 firms, and pair counts are smaller. They earn a place here because their rules, pricing, or payout speed beat most Tier 1 options on everything except crypto depth.

1. FXIFY

FXIFY runs a dedicated crypto funding path across 80+ crypto assets, separate from its CFD and futures products. Instant Funding and a 1-Step evaluation are both available, with performance splits reaching up to 100% on eligible crypto plans, though 90% is the standard starting figure most traders will see. FXIFY won FundedTrading.com's Best Broker-Backed Prop Firm and Best 2-Step Challenge Prop Firm awards in 2026.

Leverage on crypto is capped at 5:1 on BTC and ETH and 2:1 on other pairs. News trading is restricted on Crypto Standard challenges specifically, unlike FXIFY's CFD accounts where news trading is generally allowed. Minimum entry is $39 for a Three Phase $5K account.

Best for: Traders who want crypto and CFD accounts under one roof with a real path to a 100% split.

2. Hola Prime

Hola Prime holds a 4.6 Trustpilot rating from 1,762 reviews and supports crypto with zero commission alongside forex, indices, commodities, and futures. Regulated by the FSC of Mauritius, Hola Prime runs on MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXtrade, TradeLocker, and Match-Trader, more platform choice than any other firm on this page.

An independent Deloitte review of Hola Prime's withdrawal processing between October 2025 and March 2026 found 98.35% of requests cleared within one hour with zero denials in that window, reported by Finance Magnates in April 2026. Profit splits reach up to 95% on Accelerator accounts, with payouts every 10 calendar days.

Best for: Traders who want the widest platform choice and an audited payout track record.

3. E8 Markets

E8 Markets has paid out more than $74 million to traders since 2021 and holds a 4.3 to 4.4 Trustpilot rating from over 3,200 reviews. The firm runs forex, futures, and crypto under one account structure called E8 ONE, letting traders configure account size, drawdown level, and profit split as separate choices rather than picking from fixed tiers.

E8 Signature funded accounts carry a mandatory payout buffer equal to the end-of-day drawdown amount, which stays locked in the account and cannot be withdrawn. Minimum payout is $250 through Rise or $50 through Plane. Scaling reaches up to $1,000,000, with profit split climbing to 100% after 10 consecutive winning days on standard accounts.

Best for: Traders who want to customize drawdown and split independently rather than accept a fixed package.

4. Moneta Funded

Moneta Funded launched in December 2025, backed by Moneta Markets, a broker with over a decade in the market. Crypto trades as a CFD instrument alongside forex, indices, and commodities across 150+ instruments on MT5 and MatchTrader. The Phoenix Challenge model offers a free retry on failure across a 10-tier scaling path reaching $2,000,000.

Moneta Funded pays an 88% profit split as standard across every account type, with a 14-day payout cycle and 1 to 2 business days to process. Payment methods include Rise, USDT (TRC20), and USDC (ERC20).

Best for: Traders who want broker-backed execution infrastructure and are comfortable being an early adopter of a new firm.

5. Velotrade

Velotrade's own FundedTrading.com review describes it as crypto-only, built for digital asset traders with weekend holding, no consistency rule, and DXtrade access. A separate Velotrade blog post describes the same product as multi-asset, covering crypto, forex, stocks, and commodities. Confirm which description matches the specific challenge you buy before paying.

The crypto prop entity, Velotrade Re Limited, was incorporated in November 2025. It shares a name and founding team with the original Velotrade invoice-financing business established in 2016, but the two are separate legal entities. Velotrade holds a PropFirmMap safety grade of C and a 4.0 Trustpilot rating from 8 reviews as of this update.

Best for: Traders drawn to the EOD trailing drawdown model, who confirm the current asset list directly with Velotrade before buying.

6. Plutus Trade Base

Plutus Trade Base, operated by Triple Edge Group LTD, offers crypto CFDs alongside forex, stock CFDs, indices, and metals, with profit splits reaching up to 95% and entry pricing from EUR 29. The firm runs 1-Step, 2-Step, and Instant Funding evaluations across account sizes up to $500,000, with maximum daily loss set at 1.4% and overall drawdown capped at 5%.

Traders Union gives Plutus Trade Base a 9.2 out of 10 score based on its review base. Trustpilot also carries a documented complaint alleging $99,334.44 in withheld payouts across two accounts, plus separate reports of accounts closed over stop-loss timing and risk-calculation disputes.

Best for: Traders who want the widest platform choice in this tier and size their first account to test the payout process directly.

7. The Nomad Trader

The Nomad Trader runs separate forex and crypto assessment lines under one company. Founded in December 2024 and based in the United Kingdom, the firm scores 8.1 out of 10 on FundedTrading.com. Crypto evaluations run in 1-step and 2-step formats up to $200,000, separate from the forex line which scales to $400,000.

Platform access runs through cTrader, DXtrade, GooeyPro, and Match-Trader, with TradingView charting. The firm's own review has no FundedTrading.com discount code active as of this update. Its prohibited-trading and news-filter sections give it broad discretion to deny funding for trading styles it judges as gaming the evaluation, so read those sections closely before trading aggressively.

Best for: Traders who want a flat 90% crypto split with weekend trading enabled, in a firm that also covers forex and futures.

Hyperliquid is an on-chain perpetuals exchange running a fully on-chain order book with sub-second settlement, and it cleared over $190 billion in perpetual volume in a single month in 2026. That volume created room for prop firms that settle entirely on public blockchain rails instead of an internal back office. Propr and Carrot Funding, both covered in Tier 1, are the two most product-complete examples funding real accounts on Hyperliquid today.

Beyond Propr, Hypernova raised a $3 million pre-seed round in May 2026 and placed $1 million of it in a public payout reserve on Arbitrum that anyone can verify on Arbiscan. HyperPnL is an earlier-stage, hackathon-origin platform funded by outside liquidity providers rather than a venture round. None of these three currently has a FundedTrading.com review or coupon code.

For the full ranked breakdown of Propr against Hypernova, HyperPnL, and the rest of the on-chain category, see best on-chain prop firms.

Every firm on this page was scored against six dimensions, weighted toward execution and payout reliability over marketing claims. A firm with a high headline profit split and a thin payout record ranks below a firm with a lower split and a longer verified track record.

Every figure on this page was pulled from each firm's own site, help center, or FundedTrading.com review, checked in August 2026. No third-party directory was used as a primary source for any factual claim. Where a firm's own materials contradicted each other, such as Velotrade's crypto-only versus multi-asset descriptions, we state the contradiction directly rather than pick one silently.

Four mechanics only show up in crypto prop trading, and none of them appear on a standard forex prop firm rules page. Understand these before you trade a funded crypto account for the first time.

Funding rates on perpetuals

HyroTrader and Breakout traders pay or receive a funding rate on open perpetual positions every few hours, set by the exchange rather than the firm. A swing trader holding through several funding intervals needs to factor that cost into the trade, not just the entry and exit price.

USDT and USDC denomination

HyroTrader denominates accounts in USDT. Propr and Breakout pay out in USDC. A trader used to a USD-denominated forex account carries stablecoin peg exposure that does not exist on a standard CFD account.

Trailing drawdown on a 24/7 market

A trailing drawdown floor that moves while the trader sleeps behaves differently in crypto than in forex, because crypto never closes for the weekend. Klein Funding's Cleo Flex plan uses a 3% trailing drawdown specifically, half the room of its 6% static plans, and that gap matters more on a market that moves overnight.

Consistency rules calibrated for forex

Crypto Fund Trader and HyroTrader both cap a single day at 40% of total evaluation profit. That rule was built for forex, where one strong day is unusual. In crypto, a single large move can legitimately represent most of a trader's monthly result, and the 40% cap can penalize a real edge rather than gambling behavior.

Five checks separate a informed crypto prop firm purchase from an expensive surprise. Run through all five before paying for any challenge on this page.

Confirm whether the "crypto account" you are buying is a CFD account or a real exchange seat. Ask the firm directly which exchange or blockchain the trade settles on, and whether you can verify a fill independently. Check whether weekend positions get force-closed on Friday, since several multi-asset firms in Tier 2 restrict weekend holding on crypto even though the market never closes. Read whether funding rates apply and whether they count against your daily drawdown, since a funding payment can push a tight account into breach without a single losing trade. Confirm whether drawdown is static or trailing, and remember that a trailing floor behaves differently on a market that moves overnight than on one that only trades a London or New York session. Read the consistency rule specifically for crypto, since a 40% single-day cap built for forex can cap a legitimate crypto trading edge rather than gambling behavior.