# Prop Firms That Pay in Crypto

Compiled by The Funded Desk. Programme terms read 22 September 2026; page updated 24 September 2026.

## The short answer

Three of the seven firms here move money to a wallet in USDT or USDC; the rest publish a speed or a
schedule and never name the rail. Ordered by payout terms, prop firms that pay in crypto start with Goat
Funded Trader, which promises payment within 24 hours of a request or adds $1,000, then Breakout and
HyroTrader.

## What decides it

1. Breakout is the only programme here that names both token and network: USDC on Ethereum, on demand 24/7, from $50 after the split.
2. HyroTrader pays above $100 of profit in USDT or USDC and states about twelve hours between the request and the money.
3. Goat Funded Trader puts a price on lateness: payment within 24 hours of a request, or the firm adds $1,000.
4. FTMO, BrightFunded, Crypto Fund Trader and SabioTrade describe how fast or how often they pay, but name no token, chain or wallet.

Weights: cost 34 · payouts 26 · evaluation 14 · rules 18 · instruments 8. Rubric: https://chroniclesofwarcraft.com/scoring

## Prop firms that pay in crypto, ordered by payout terms

Ordered by the payout criterion, worth 25 of the 100 points in the site formula: what share of profit
the trader keeps, how soon it can be requested and in what form it arrives. The score column still
shows the overall score out of 20, so a programme can rank high here and low there.
Every row is a firm paying out of its own book.

| # | Programme | Score | Route | Fee for $100,000 | Trader keeps | Loss limit | Where the order goes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goat Funded Trader | 12.7 | One-step challenge, $100,000 | $438 | 100% | fixed | simulated |
| 2= | Breakout | 11.1 | 1-Step Turbo, $100,000 | $330 | 80% | fixed | simulated |
| 2= | HyroTrader | 9.8 | One-step evaluation, $100,000 | $579 | 80% | fixed | exchange order book |
| 4= | FTMO | 9.3 | 1-Step FTMO Challenge, $100,000 | $504 | 90% | fixed | simulated |
| 4= | BrightFunded | 7.9 | One-step evaluation, $100,000 | $548 | 90% | fixed | simulated |
| 6= | Crypto Fund Trader | 5.8 | One-phase evaluation, $100,000 | $660 | 80% | fixed | simulated |
| 6= | SabioTrade | 5.4 | Single assessment, scaled from the $50,000 plan | $578 | 80% | trailing | simulated |

Terms read 22 September 2026 in each firm's own documentation; fees are the list price for $100,000 of trading nominal.

## 1. [Goat Funded Trader](https://goatfundedtrader.com) — fit: a deadline written into the payout itself

Score 12.7 of 20.

Goat Funded Trader pays on request and prices its own lateness: within 24 hours, or the firm adds
$1,000, against an advertised 100% split. Money leaves by bank transfer, Skrill, Rise or crypto to a
wallet, so the rail is a choice rather than a default, and no minimum is published. An identity check
clears before the funded stage and again before rewards.

- Gives: Payment on request within 24 hours, or the firm pays an extra $1,000; A 100% split, taken out to a wallet, a bank, Skrill or Rise.
- Takes back: Rewards and the funded stage both require passing an identity check; Capital is simulated at every stage, so the payout is a reward rather than a share of a trade; The headline price is a promotion: $263 against a $438 list fee for a $100,000 account.

## 2. [Breakout](https://breakoutprop.com) — fit: the lowest minimum and a named network

Score 11.1 of 20.

Breakout is the only programme here that names the token and the chain it pays on: USDC on Ethereum,
sent to the trader's wallet. Payouts run on demand, 24/7, from $50 after the 80/20 split, with a 90/10
upgrade sold at checkout. What gets split is a calculated result — the firm reserves the right to
record a trade idea internally rather than route it to a market.

- Gives: On demand, 24/7, from $50 after the split, in USDC on Ethereum to a wallet; No minimum trading days, no time limit and no consistency rule standing before a payout.
- Takes back: Evaluation fees are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, whatever the outcome; The firm may record a trade as an internal book entry rather than route it to a market; Its own disclosure names a conflict of interest: the firm earns each time an evaluation is failed and repurchased.

## 2. [HyroTrader](https://www.hyrotrader.com) — fit: a wallet payout from an account that reached an exchange

Score 9.8 of 20.

HyroTrader pays on demand above $100 of profit, in USDT or USDC, and states about twelve hours between
the request and the transfer. It is also the one evaluation here whose funded accounts run through a
Bybit connection across 700+ USDT perpetual pairs, so the profit being paid came from a filled order.
The $579 fee for a $100,000 account returns with that first payout.

- Gives: On demand above $100 of profit, in USDT or USDC, in about twelve hours; The $579 challenge fee is returned with the first payout.
- Takes back: Mandatory stop-loss and consistency requirements are part of the rule set; The two-step route needs a 10% target and then a 5% verification before any payout; Breaching the 4% daily or 6% maximum loss forfeits the account outright.

## 4. [FTMO](https://ftmo.com) — fit: a refunded fee rather than a crypto rail

Score 9.3 of 20.

FTMO publishes what happens to the fee, not how the reward travels. The one-time €439 for a $100,000
challenge is refunded in full with the first reward, and the firm states 4.5 million customers and
$650 million paid out since 2015. Nothing on the pages we read names a token, a chain or a wallet, so
the rail is undocumented here rather than ruled out.

- Gives: The one-time fee is refunded in full, 100%, with the first reward; A published payout record at scale, 4.5 million customers served since 2015.
- Takes back: Rewards are earned in a simulated environment, not on positions that reach a market; Crypto is a CFD, and weekend hours depend on each platform's maintenance window; Four minimum trading days and a two-target route delay a first payment.

## 4. [BrightFunded](https://brightfunded.com) — fit: a guarantee on the timing rather than on the rail

Score 7.9 of 20.

BrightFunded guarantees payouts inside 24 hours and sells weekly payouts as a paid add-on, with a
split of up to 90% as standard and up to 100% through its loyalty programme. The guarantee covers the
clock, not the destination: the pages we read name no token, chain or wallet. A $100,000 evaluation
lists at €477.

- Gives: Payouts guaranteed inside 24 hours, with no consistency rule to clear first; Up to 90% split as standard, rising towards 100% through the loyalty programme.
- Takes back: Several rules a trader would want — no minimum days, a 90% ratio, a fee refund — are paid add-ons; All trading practices occur within a simulation environment, by the firm's own wording; MT5 services are not offered to residents of several countries, the operator's own included.

## 6. [Crypto Fund Trader](https://cryptofundtrader.com) — fit: a wide instrument list with a checked payout

Score 5.8 of 20.

Crypto Fund Trader runs a rule at the moment of the request: it checks that no single day holds more
than 40% of total profits, and asks the trader to keep trading until profits are spread more evenly if
one does. The split is 80% at the live stage, a $100,000 account costs $660, and no crypto rail is
named on the pages we read.

- Gives: 715 crypto pairs plus forex, indices, stocks and commodities on one account; No deadlines and no minimum trading days before a payout can be requested.
- Takes back: A payout is checked against a rule that no single day holds more than 40% of total profits; The operator states it is not authorised or licensed in Switzerland and provides educational services; Capital is simulated throughout, so no real market position is created for the trader.

## 6. [SabioTrade](https://sabiotrade.com) — fit: a weekly schedule with a cost attached to each request

Score 5.4 of 20.

SabioTrade pays weekly rather than on request, and the schedule carries a price. Once a withdrawal is
requested the maximum trailing drawdown is set at the starting balance, so every payout tightens the
account behind it. The split is 80% from the first payout, plans run $119 for a $20,000 balance and
$289 for $50,000, and no crypto rail is named.

- Gives: An 80% split from the first payout, with no scaling requirement to reach it; A single assessment rather than a two-phase ladder before the first payout.
- Takes back: Requesting a withdrawal resets the trailing drawdown to the starting balance; Crypto leverage is capped at 1:3, the lowest in this comparison; A consistency rule caps one day at 55% of the plan's target profit.

## EVEDEX Funded Trading, described rather than ranked

Not scored: There is no payout run here at all, which is why the page describes it and why it carries no total:
payout terms are one criterion of five, and the other four price capital a firm puts up, of which none
is put up here. The [method page](/scoring#which-programmes-we-score) sets out why.

Nothing is released because there is no profit share to release. The trader posts margin — 3,335 USDT
for a 100,000 USDT nominal at the top tier, 50 USDT for 1,500 at the bottom — and trades that nominal
on the exchange's own order book, keeping the whole profit. What leaves is the actual USDT balance, at
any time, and only that.

- Gives: The trader keeps 100% of profit, and the actual USDT balance can be withdrawn at any time; No profit split to clear, no minimum to reach and no payout schedule to wait for.
- Takes back: The larger nominal is not firm capital, so nothing beyond the posted margin can be withdrawn; The money at risk from the first trade is the trader's own margin, where a fee is the whole stake elsewhere; Funded subaccounts are web only, with no API access.
- Not for: a trader with no margin to post, which is the case the prop model was built for.

## What a wallet payout changes, and what it does not

A crypto rail removes a bank from the path. It does not remove the firm's decision to pay. Breakout,
HyroTrader and Goat Funded Trader describe the same sequence — a request, the firm's own review, then
a transfer — and the rail only decides how the last step looks: USDC on Ethereum at Breakout, USDT or
USDC at HyroTrader, a choice of wallet, bank transfer, Skrill or Rise at Goat Funded Trader.

Leverage is what makes the rest matter: a position sized against a $100,000 nominal can breach a 4%
daily limit days before a payout is due, and at all seven prop firms here that forfeits the account.

## Where the money stalls after the profit is made

Four published rules delay a payout that has been earned. A consistency check, at Crypto Fund Trader,
which looks at whether one day holds more than 40% of total profits and asks the trader to keep going
if it does. An identity check, at Goat Funded Trader, before the funded stage and again before rewards.
A schedule, at SabioTrade, which pays weekly and resets the trailing drawdown to the starting balance
on each request. And a minimum: $50 after the split at Breakout, $100 of profit at HyroTrader.

Two programmes left out of the scoring for want of a readable price say it differently again:
Bitfunded pays within 24 hours of a profit split day, FundedNext states 99.99% of rewards are
processed within 24 hours, and neither names a rail.

## What this desk actually read

Fee, target, loss limits, split, payout terms — all copied off each firm's pricing and rule pages on
22 September 2026, then run through one weighted formula, written 23 September 2026 before any of it
was read ([the method](/scoring)). 7 programmes priced, none bought.

Simulated capital is the norm here: a payout comes off the firm's balance sheet, not a filled
position. Terms are promises, too — a fair rule set can still mean weeks of argument over a
withdrawal, which no document shows.

## What the firms say, in their own words

> "On-demand, 24/7. $50 minimum after profit split. USDC on Ethereum, sent to your wallet." — Breakout, payouts FAQ, 21 September 2026.
> "Withdraw 100% of your profits through multiple payment methods." — Goat Funded Trader, home page, 22 September 2026.
> "when you request a payout, we check that no one day's profit is more than 40% of your total profits to date" — Crypto Fund Trader, payout rules, 21 September 2026.
> "Once you request a withdrawal, your maximum trailing drawdown will be set at your starting balance" — SabioTrade, risk rules, 22 September 2026.
## FAQ

### Which prop firms pay in USDT?

HyroTrader pays in USDT or USDC above $100 of profit, in about twelve hours. EVEDEX Funded Trading is
a withdrawal of the trader's own USDT balance rather than a payout. Goat Funded Trader lists crypto to
a wallet among bank transfer, Skrill and Rise. Breakout pays USDC on Ethereum instead.

### What is the lowest prop firm payout minimum?

Breakout at $50 after the profit split, paid on demand 24/7 in USDC on Ethereum. HyroTrader sits at
$100 of profit. Goat Funded Trader, FTMO, BrightFunded, Crypto Fund Trader and SabioTrade publish no
minimum on the pages we read, which is not the same as having none.

### How long does a prop firm payout take?

By their own terms, Goat Funded Trader pays within 24 hours of a request or adds $1,000, HyroTrader in
about twelve hours, Breakout on demand around the clock, BrightFunded inside a guaranteed 24 hours and
SabioTrade weekly. None of these has been tested here, so read them as published terms rather than as
conduct.

### Do prop firms pay to a crypto wallet?

Four of the eight here name a wallet destination, and only three of those are a firm paying out.
Breakout sends USDC on Ethereum, HyroTrader sends USDT or USDC, Goat Funded Trader lists crypto
beside bank transfer, Skrill and Rise. On EVEDEX Funded Trading the trader withdraws their own USDT
balance. FTMO, BrightFunded, Crypto Fund Trader and SabioTrade name none.

### Does FTMO pay in crypto?

Not on the pages we read. FTMO publishes that the one-time fee is refunded in full with the first
reward and that rewards are earned in a simulated environment, but names no token, chain or wallet for
the reward itself. Absent from the documentation is not the same as ruled out.

### Can you get paid without KYC by a prop firm?

Not at Goat Funded Trader, which states the identity check happens before the funded stage and before
rewards. It is the one firm here that publishes where in the path the check sits, and the others say
only that a check exists.

### Why was my prop firm payout delayed?

The published reasons are rules, not queues. Crypto Fund Trader checks that no single day holds more
than 40% of total profits before it pays. Goat Funded Trader waits for an identity check. SabioTrade
pays weekly rather than on request. BrightFunded sells weekly payouts as an add-on rather than a
default.

### How often can you withdraw from a funded account?

On demand at Breakout, HyroTrader and Goat Funded Trader, which means whenever the minimum and the
rules are met. SabioTrade pays weekly. BrightFunded guarantees 24 hours once a payout is due and sells
weekly payouts separately. EVEDEX Funded Trading has no schedule, because the balance being moved is
the trader's own.

### Does requesting a payout reset the drawdown?

At SabioTrade it does. Once a withdrawal is requested the maximum trailing drawdown is set at the
starting balance, so the account is tighter after every payout. The other programmes here use fixed
loss limits, which stay where the firm set them whether or not a payout has been taken.

### What network do prop firms use for USDC payouts?

Breakout is the only one that names it, USDC on Ethereum, sent to the trader's wallet. HyroTrader
states USDT or USDC without naming a chain. Goat Funded Trader says crypto to a wallet without naming
either. A page that does not name the network does not say what a transfer will cost the trader
either.

## Corrections and provenance

One published formula; every figure dated and taken from the firm's own pages. Corrections: desk@chroniclesofwarcraft.com.

The Funded Desk, desk copy of 24 September 2026

This desk is paid to publish, and a programme costed on these pages may be the party underwriting it.