Funding is a reward promise, not a deposit.
When a prop fund allocates you a $50,000 account, no one wires $50,000 anywhere. The account is simulated against live pricing, and the firm's balance sheet exposure is the reward it owes if you produce profit. Understanding that reframes the whole industry: you are not being lent money, you are being underwritten.
It also tells you what to check before paying a fee. The question is never 'does this firm have capital?' — it is 'does this firm settle its rewards, on time, verifiably?'
How a prop fund stays solvent.
- Evaluation fees from traders who do not pass — the base revenue line.
- Hedged exposure: mirroring the live positions of consistently profitable traders so the desk earns alongside them.
- Rule design: drawdown floors and profit targets that cap the reward liability per account.
- Reward cadence: batching settlement (for us, every Monday) so treasury is predictable.
How to verify a prop fund before you pay.
Ask for proof of settlement, not screenshots. MixFunded publishes every reward on-chain: each USDT (TRC-20) transfer appears on the public ledger with its transaction ID, and you can open that TXID on the TRON explorer without an account. The aggregated view — total paid, reward count, monthly breakdown — is computed live from the same data on /transparency.
Also read the rulebook before the marketing page. No consistency rule, no time limit, news trading allowed and EAs permitted are all easy to claim and easy to quietly walk back in the terms. Ours are on /rules in plain English.
Getting funded here.
Four routes: 1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funded and Pay After Passing. PAPP starts at $5 and defers the $150 activation fee until you have passed, with 3% daily and 8% maximum drawdown. Instant Funded skips the evaluation altogether.
Configure any of them on /programs — the full rule set and price appear before you pay.