- Two different industries share this keyword. Crypto-native firms (Breakout, HyroTrader, Crypto Fund Trader) list 62 to 715 pairs; forex firms with a crypto tab list 4 to 80. None of the crypto-native firms are our partners.
- Crypto leverage is not the leverage you were sold. On the rules pages we verified it sits at 1:1 to 1:5, against forex headlines of 1:30 to 1:100.
- Genuine 24/7 is the crypto-native firms’ main structural advantage. FundedNext restricts crypto to weekdays, FunderPro charges extra to hold over a weekend, and Topstep’s crypto futures close every afternoon.
- This page covers what you can trade. For how you get paid, see prop firms that pay out in crypto.
Most crypto prop firm rankings are a list of forex firms with a Bitcoin logo added. That misses the more useful distinction: there are now two separate groups of companies competing for this search, and they are not substitutes for each other. One group builds crypto accounts on crypto venues. The other bolts a handful of crypto CFDs onto a forex product and shares the drawdown budget with EUR/USD.
Everything below comes from each firm’s own rules pages, checked on 2026-07-29. Where a firm blocks automated access to its help centre, we say so rather than borrowing numbers from a review site. The machine-readable dataset holds the underlying fee, drawdown and payout fields for the firms we track.
Two different questions, often confused
Readers arrive at “crypto prop firm” wanting one of two things:
- Trading crypto instruments — BTC, ETH and altcoin exposure inside an evaluation or funded account. That is this page.
- Being paid in crypto — your profit split sent to a wallet in USDT, USDC or BTC. That is a withdrawal method, covered in prop firms that pay out in crypto.
They are independent. FTMO does both. Topstep does neither. FXIFY has one of the deepest crypto instrument lists among forex firms but states that all payouts run through Rise. Decide which one you need before comparing anything else.
Crypto-native firms and forex firms are not the same product
| Firm | Founded | Crypto pairs | Execution | Cheapest fee | Split |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakout | 2023 | 62 | Own terminal (DXtrade), USD-quoted | $40 (1-Step Turbo, $5K) | 80%, 90% as a paid upgrade |
| HyroTrader | 2022 | 700+ | Trader’s own Bybit account via API | $59 ($5K) | 80% rising to 90% |
| Crypto Fund Trader | — | 715+ | Bybit (real futures) or MT5 / Match-Trader (CFD) | $40 (Accelerated, $5K) | 80%, scaling to 90% |
| BrightFunded | 2023 | 48+ | CFD | not published | 80%, 90% add-on, up to 100% |
| Bitfunded | 2023 | 100+ | CFD | $50 (Day Trader) | 80% |
| FXIFY crypto accounts | — | around 80 | CFD, separate account type | $39 (forex programs) | up to 90% |
| FTMO | 2015 | 22 added in 2025; total not published | CFD | $89 | up to 90% |
| FunderPro | — | 11 of 46 instruments | CFD | $69 | up to 90% |
| FundedNext | — | 9 | CFD | $60 | up to 95% |
| Maven Trading | — | 4 | CFD | $12 | up to 80% |
The most consequential fact in that table is Breakout’s ownership. Breakout announced it was acquired by Kraken, and Kraken states it purchased Breakout Trading Group LLC in September 2025. The corroboration that matters is on Breakout’s own site: its legal disclosures name Payward Oceanic Ltd — Payward being Kraken’s corporate entity — as the party holding funded accounts and approving payouts. In an industry where counterparty risk is the whole game, an exchange-owned balance sheet behind the funded account is a structural difference, not a marketing line.
To Breakout’s credit, the same disclosures say things most firms bury: that funded trades may be book entries with no external routing, that Payward Oceanic may receive third-party incentives not shared with traders, and that Breakout earns fees each time an evaluation trader fails and repurchases. That is the clearest statement of the prop business model we have seen a firm publish about itself.
None of the crypto-native firms above are affiliate partners of ours. They are here because they lead on pair count, execution and session coverage, which is what this page measures. Our conflict of interest policy explains how we handle that.
Four execution models hide behind one word
“Crypto trading” describes four different things at prop firms, and the difference determines your pair list, your leverage and whether a real order ever reaches a market.
- Crypto CFD against the firm. The price is simulated and settled internally. FTMO, The5%ers, FundedNext, FunderPro, BrightFunded and Maven Trading work this way. FundedNext states plainly that its crypto trading is through CFDs simulating price changes.
- Crypto-native CFD on the firm’s own venue. Breakout runs its own terminal with USD-quoted pairs, 0.04% fees and 3.3 basis points a day of financing — CFD mechanics, but built for crypto rather than inherited from an FX broker.
- Exchange API on your own account. HyroTrader connects to the trader’s own Bybit account and offers Bybit USDT perpetuals; Crypto Fund Trader offers the same route alongside its CFD platforms. This is why their pair counts are in the hundreds while CFD firms sit in the dozens: they inherit the exchange’s listings.
- CME crypto futures. Topstep and Apex offer Micro Bitcoin (MBT) and Micro Ether (MET). Regulated, cleared, and closed most of the time.
If you trade small-cap altcoins, only the exchange-API route will have them. If you want a regulated venue, only the futures route offers one. The CFD firms sit in between and are usually chosen for the evaluation terms rather than the crypto product.
Crypto leverage: the number nobody advertises
This is the biggest gap between what a homepage says and what your account does. The advertised leverage is the forex leverage. Crypto is set separately, per instrument, and far lower.
| Firm | Crypto leverage | Forex headline | Source status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakout | 5x BTC and ETH, 2x all others; applied automatically and cannot be changed | — (crypto only) | Official symbols page |
| Crypto Fund Trader | up to 1:100 on the Bybit and Advanced route; 1:5 on Student, Ascend and Instant | — | Official FAQ |
| FXIFY crypto accounts | 5:1 on BTC, ETH, SOL; 2:1 on everything else | 30:1 forex and gold | FXIFY’s own blog, not the rules page |
| FundedNext | 1:1 | 1:30 (Stellar Instant) | Official help centre |
| Hola Prime | 1:1 | 50:1 on the rules page | Official rules page |
| ThinkCapital | 1:1 (Lightning); BTCUSD tiered by lot size, 1:2 up to 0.10 lots then 1:1 | 1:30 | Official FAQ |
| Goat Funded Trader | 1:2, and it does not scale up with the account | 1:50 standard, 1:100 max | Official help centre |
| FunderPro | 1:2 (Classic, Pro, One-Phase); 1:1 with the Swing Add-On | 1:100 / 1:50 / 1:30 by program | Official support |
| The5%ers | No crypto carve-out published; 1:100 on High Stakes and 1:30 on Hyper Growth apply across listed assets | 1:100 / 1:30 | Official program pages |
| FTMO | Unresolved — see note below | up to 1:100 Standard, 1:30 Swing | Conflicting pages on ftmo.com |
| Maven Trading | Not published — crypto is absent from the firm’s leverage table | 75:1 forex | Official FAQ, crypto row missing |
ThinkCapital’s structure is the most unusual we found: on Dual Step, Nexus and Bolt, BTCUSD leverage steps down as the position grows, from 1:2 below 0.10 lots to 1:1 above it. That is a lot-size cap dressed as a leverage rule, and it surprises anyone sizing up a winning position.
On FTMO we could not settle a number. An FTMO blog post lists cryptocurrencies at 1:50 against 1:100 forex, while the account specifications FAQ gives only account-level caps with no asset-class breakdown. Two pages on the same domain, two different pictures. We are not publishing a figure we cannot reconcile — check the specification in the platform before sizing a crypto position.
A 1:1 cap is not a footnote. On a $100,000 account it means $100,000 of Bitcoin exposure, full stop. Reaching an 8% profit target from there requires an 8% move in the underlying, held through the daily loss limit. That arithmetic is why crypto passes are rarer than crypto marketing suggests, and it is the clearest argument for the exchange-API firms if leverage is what you need.
24/7 is rarer than the marketing implies
Crypto markets never close. Prop accounts frequently do. This is the rule most likely to breach an account by accident, because traders assume the market’s hours are the account’s hours.
| Firm | Weekend crypto trading | Weekend holding |
|---|---|---|
| Breakout | Yes — the firm states all trading is 24/7 outside scheduled maintenance | Yes, explicitly allowed |
| HyroTrader | Yes | Yes — positions may stay open overnight and over the weekend |
| Crypto Fund Trader | Yes — crypto markets open 24/7 | Yes, overnight and weekend permitted |
| Bitfunded | Yes — trading during weekends and news events permitted | Yes |
| FXIFY crypto accounts | Yes — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no break | Yes |
| FundedNext | No — crypto trading is Monday to Friday only | Allowed on challenge and funded accounts; triple swaps on Friday for crypto and indices |
| FunderPro | — | Only with the paid Swing Add-On. Otherwise all trades, crypto included, must close by Friday 16:30 EST or the challenge fails |
| FTMO | Yes, when the market is open; crypto weekend hours vary by platform due to scheduled maintenance | Swing accounts unrestricted; funded Standard accounts must close before the weekend |
| ThinkCapital | — | Allowed on Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step Swing; not on Dual Step Intraday or BOLT, where holding past Friday 21:00 UTC is a hard breach and terminates the account |
| Funded Trading Plus Instant | Yes | No — all trades auto-close Friday 16:30 EST |
| The5%ers | — | Allowed on both High Stakes and Hyper Growth |
| Goat Funded Trader | — | Allowed |
| Maven Trading | — | Permitted on all account types |
| City Traders Imperium | — | Allowed on every funding program, overnight and weekend |
Two patterns. Among forex firms, instant-funding and intraday programs are where weekend holds get taken away and swing-labelled programs are where they are guaranteed, so the program name matters more than the firm name. Among crypto-native firms, 24/7 is simply assumed — it is the thing they were built to do.
Crypto futures are a different product entirely
Topstep permits CME-listed Micro Bitcoin (MBT) and Micro Ether (MET) while explicitly prohibiting spot cryptocurrency and CFDs. Each micro contract counts as a full contract toward the maximum position size, so five MBT fills a 50K account. All positions must close by 3:10 PM CT every weekday, and the market is shut from Friday afternoon until Sunday 5:00 PM CT. Crypto exists at Topstep, but never overnight and never on a weekend — the opposite of the CFD product.
Apex Trader Funding is also futures-only. Its help centre blocks automated access, so we could not read the instrument list directly; those pages are reported to permit MBT and MET while warning against the larger Mini Bitcoin (BT) and Mini Ether (ET) contracts. Treat that as unconfirmed until you check it in the platform.
An earlier version of this page said Topstep does not support crypto. That was wrong, and we have corrected it. Futures firms are covered on their own terms in our futures prop firm comparison.
Crypto shares one drawdown budget with everything else
The rules that are not crypto-specific are the ones that fail accounts. Daily loss limit, maximum drawdown and prohibited automation are shared with the forex product on the same balance. There is no separate crypto allowance.
Three things worth planning for:
- The drawdown model matters more than the percentage. A 4% trailing limit behaves nothing like a 10% static limit when a volatile position moves against you. Breakout states its 1-Step maximum drawdown is static throughout; HyroTrader offers a choice between a trailing Standard variant and a fixed Swing variant; BrightFunded’s 1-Step is trailing on a high-water mark while both its 2-Step programs are static. See drawdown types explained.
- Swaps count. FundedNext states that swaps count toward the daily loss and that crypto and indices carry triple swaps on Friday. A position held over a weekend can consume drawdown without the price moving at all.
- Crypto-native firms add rules of their own. HyroTrader caps any single day at 40% of your total net result and any single trade’s realized loss at 3% of initial balance, and limits low-cap altcoins to 5% of initial balance. Those are consistency rules by another name.
Getting paid in crypto is a separate decision
Trading crypto and being paid in crypto are unrelated at most firms. FTMO pays out in BTC, ETH, LTC, USDC on ERC20 and USDT on TRC20 with no commission charged by the firm. The5%ers charges 3.5% on crypto, Rise and bank transfers alike. Goat Funded Trader charges 2% and caps crypto at $4,000 per payout. Topstep offers no crypto payout at all.
Predictably, the crypto-native firms are strongest here: Breakout pays USDC on ERC-20 with a $50 minimum and on-demand requests including weekends; HyroTrader pays USDT or USDC with no withdrawal commission, a $100 minimum after the split and 12 to 24 hour processing; Crypto Fund Trader pays USDT on ERC-20 or TRC-20, BTC or ETH, typically in about eight hours.
The full comparison, including coins, networks, minimums and speeds, is in prop firms that pay out in crypto.
What we could not verify
Publishing this list is the point. Several firms in this segment block automated access to their own rules, which means most specific numbers circulating online rest on someone’s undated screenshot.
- FundingPips — site 403, help centre 403. Crypto leverage reported at 1:2 in evaluation dropping to 1:1 when funded, with weekend holds removed from Master Accounts in January 2026. Unconfirmed.
- E8 Markets — entire domain 403. Dedicated crypto programs and leverage of 1:5 on BTC/ETH and 1:2 elsewhere are reported but unconfirmed.
- Apex Trader Funding — all help centre URLs 403. Crypto futures availability unconfirmed.
- City Traders Imperium — help centre 403. Crypto as an asset class and weekend holds on the 2-step challenge are confirmed from the public site; crypto leverage and the instrument list are not.
- Funded Trading Plus — main site 403. Instant program weekend rules confirmed from the help centre; crypto leverage not.
- BrightFunded — account sizes and prices are behind the checkout flow; crypto leverage is third-party reported only.
- Breakout — the firm’s own pages disagree on maximum account size, with one article saying $100,000 and the homepage saying $200,000.
One more concerns a firm we work with. Fintokei’s English homepage FAQ states plainly that it does not offer crypto or stock trading, while its Japanese-language pages list crypto CFDs among tradable assets and its symbols page mentions them too. We could not reconcile that, so we are not listing Fintokei as a crypto firm on this page despite the partnership. If crypto is why you are considering it, confirm with support before paying.
How to choose
- Decide whether you need a crypto-native firm or a multi-asset firm. If your strategy needs more than BTC and ETH, the forex firms will not have the pairs.
- Check the pair count, not the crypto checkbox. Four pairs and 715 pairs are both “crypto support”.
- Find the crypto leverage line specifically. The homepage number is the forex number, and the gap is often 30x or more.
- Match the weekend rule to your holding period, at the program level. Intraday and instant programs are where weekend holds disappear.
- Confirm crypto is allowed on the specific product. FundedNext excludes crypto from at least one challenge variant; FXIFY separates crypto into its own account type.
- Size against the shared drawdown budget, and account for Friday swaps if you hold through a weekend.
- Weigh who stands behind the account. Crypto desks are the newest part of these businesses, and the firm’s solvency decides whether a payout arrives — see aggregated payout data.
Prop trading is speculative and nothing here guarantees a pass, a payout or a profit. Instrument lists and rules change frequently; confirm on the firm’s official site before you pay a fee. This site does not provide investment advice.
Recommended prop firms
Two long-running firms that include crypto and allow weekend holds. Neither leads on instrument depth — the crypto-native firms above do, and none of them are partners of ours — but both have the operating record that decides whether a payout arrives.
FTMO — the longest record, with crypto included
Operating since 2015, with 22 crypto pairs added in a 2025 expansion and a 10% static maximum loss on the 2-step program that tolerates volatility better than a trailing limit. Swing accounts carry no weekend holding restriction, and payouts can be taken in five different coins at no commission.
The5%ers — crypto included, weekend holds on both programs
A veteran since 2016 with a Trustpilot base of 30,269 reviews at 4.7. High Stakes lists crypto alongside FX, metals, indices and oil at 1:100 with weekend holding allowed; Hyper Growth does the same at 1:30.
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