The token trades
Ordinary market activity. Somebody buys, somebody sells, and the Pons pool charges a creator fee on it, the same way it would for any other launch.

Trade. Pass. Get Funded.
Tradeable in the evaluation
Where the money comes from
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Every trade in our token generates creator fees. At token creation the creator-fee recipient is set to the vault contract instead of a team wallet, and the routing is immutable in every way that is practical to make immutable. There is no teamWithdrawFees().
The fee recipient is a contract, not a multisig we control. There is no admin path that redirects the flow to an address we choose later.
The token pays nobody for holding it. It has one job, and inventing a second one would only dilute the first.
Fees arrive, get converted into the reserve asset the desk funds accounts in, and sit in the vault waiting for someone to prove they deserve them.
The vault publishes total fees received, total capital held, capital currently deployed, capital available, funded trader count, payouts made and profit returned. All of it on-chain, all of it on this page. The narrative is meant to be checkable rather than believed.
Ordinary market activity. Somebody buys, somebody sells, and the Pons pool charges a creator fee on it, the same way it would for any other launch.
Every creator-fee payout lands in a router whose only outbound path is the vault. It cannot pay a team wallet because no function exists that would let it.
Fees are converted into the stable reserve the desk funds accounts in. The vault keeps 40% liquid and allows at most 60% to be deployed to traders at any one time.
Two evaluation stages on live market data and simulated money. Stage one asks whether you can make money. Stage two asks whether you can be trusted with ours.
A restricted smart account is funded with real protocol capital. The trader picks the trades; the contract enforces position size, daily loss and drawdown.
80% of profit goes to the trader. 20% returns to the vault alongside the principal, which is what funds the next trader, and the one after that.
How it works
Most prop firms make their money selling challenges to people who fail them. We do not need to: the funding pool is generated by token volume, not by your entry fee. One free evaluation per wallet, every 30 days.
Connect a wallet and receive a simulated $10,000 Stock Token account, priced against live market data.
Hit the profit target without breaking the drawdown limits, across enough days, trades and tickers to rule out luck.
Pass both stages and become eligible for real capital, subject to what the vault actually holds on the day you qualify.
Real Stock Tokens, real protocol capital, inside a smart account that can buy and sell approved assets and do nothing else.
Keep 80% of qualifying profits. Payouts are weekly at launch, with manual review on unusually large ones until the system has a track record.
The evaluation
One free simulated $10,000 account per wallet, every 30 days. Sign in with a wallet you already hold, or with an email, Privy will create a non-custodial embedded wallet for you. We never take custody of anything you own.
Why the minimums exist. Without them, the winning strategy is to put the whole account into one NVDA move, get lucky once, and collect real protocol money. Ten trades over five days across three tickers, with no position above a quarter of equity, is the cheapest test we know of that a single lucky trade cannot pass.
Funded accounts
We are not going to send you $2,500 and hope you trade it. A funded trader gets a restricted smart account: the capital is real and so is the exposure, but custody stays with the protocol and the risk limits are enforced by the contract rather than by a rule in a PDF.
transfer() to any external addressapprove() an arbitrary contract| Funded account limits | Rule | On a $2,500 account |
|---|---|---|
| Starting allocation Tier 1 | - | $2,500 |
| Maximum position size | 20% of equity | $500 |
| Maximum simultaneous positions | 5 | 5 |
| Maximum daily loss | 2% | $50 |
| Maximum total drawdown Account closes, capital returns to the vault | 5% | Floor at $2,375 |
| Leverage | None at launch | Spot, long-only |
| Instruments | Approved Stock Tokens | Canonical contracts only |
| Profit split | 80 / 20 | Trader keeps 80% |
No shorts, no margin, no options, no perps. V1 is buy and sell. Leverage multiplies both the infrastructure and the ways a funded account can end badly, and neither is worth carrying before the simple version has proven itself.
Funding capacity
This is the part most funded-trader programmes lie about. A displayed $100M available that does not exist is just marketing. Our funded capital is capped by what the vault actually holds, so displayed funding equals real funding, always.
| Worked example, per $100,000 in the vault | Rule | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid reserve, never deployed | 40% | $40,000 |
| Maximum deployed to traders | 60% | $60,000 |
| Funded accounts supportable At the $2,500 tier | $60,000 / $2,500 | 24 accounts |
| Theoretical loss if every account breaches | 24 × $125 | $3,000, 3% of the vault |
If 100 people pass and there is room for 15, then 15 people get funded. The other 85 join the Funding Queue and are ranked by Funding Score, risk-adjusted stage results, consistency, lower drawdown, rather than by who refreshed fastest. As fees arrive or funded capital returns, the next qualifying traders are allocated. Nobody is promised a tier the vault cannot support.
The split
Scaling
| Tier | Allocation | Maximum single position | Hard floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 Entry allocation on passing | $2,500 | $500 | $2,375 |
| Tier 2 | $5,000 | $1,000 | $4,750 |
| Tier 3 | $10,000 | $2,000 | $9,500 |
| Tier 4 | $25,000 | $5,000 | $23,750 |
| Tier 5 | $50,000+ | $10,000+ | −5% of allocation |
Progression depends on cumulative realised return, maximum drawdown, number of trades and trading days, consistency across periods, risk-adjusted return, rule violations, and on whether the vault can currently support the next tier. The last condition is not negotiable.
Trader Score
Return alone rewards the trader who bet everything once and survived. The score is weighted so that surviving is worth almost as much as winning, and so that a single lucky position cannot carry a profile.
| Example profile Illustrative | Funded | Return | Max DD | Win rate | Profit paid | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @trader | $10,000 | +18.4% | −2.1% | 61% | $1,840 | 91 |
Profiles are public. A funded account trading protocol capital should be inspectable by the people whose token volume paid for it.
FAQ
The creator-fee recipient is set to the router contract at token creation, and the router has no function
that pays anyone but the vault. There is no teamWithdrawFees(), and no admin method that can
silently point the flow elsewhere.
You should not take that on faith. Read the router, check the fee recipient on the token, and watch the vault balance move. Everything the site displays is read from those contracts.
Yes, one attempt per wallet every 30 days. The funding pool comes from token volume, so we do not need to sell you a challenge you are statistically likely to fail, which is how most prop firms actually make their money.
A small reset fee may exist later for people who want more than one attempt in a window. The free first attempt is the point: you should not need money to prove you can trade.
No, and that is what makes funding strangers possible. You get a trading key to a restricted smart account that can buy and sell approved Stock Tokens and nothing else, no transfers out, no arbitrary approvals, no bridging, no unapproved assets.
Your profit share is paid to you. The principal stays owned by the protocol for as long as the account is open.
The account closes at the 5% drawdown floor, $2,375 on a $2,500 allocation, and the remaining capital returns to the vault automatically. You lose funded status; the protocol loses at most the 5%, subject to execution gaps and real market risk.
You can qualify again through the evaluation. A blown account is not a ban.
Because passing an evaluation does not conjure capital. Funded account sizes are constrained by what the vault holds, and we will not display funding capacity that does not exist.
The queue is ranked by Funding Score rather than arrival time, so the strongest risk-adjusted results are allocated first as fees accumulate or funded capital returns.
Because V1 has to survive contact with real money. Spot and long-only has a known worst case that a contract can enforce. Shorts, margin, options and perps each add liquidation paths and infrastructure that would need to be right on day one.
If the simple version works, leverage is a V2 problem.
So that a bad week across many funded accounts does not empty it, and so returning traders and new qualifiers can be funded without waiting on fee inflow. Deploying every dollar to traders would maximise the headline number and minimise the protocol.
That is exactly what the minimums are for: ten closed trades, five separate trading days, three distinct Stock Tokens, and no position above 25% of equity. A single position cannot both stay inside the size cap and carry the whole target.
Pricing is computed server-side against executable bid and ask with the corporate-action multiplier applied, so the other obvious exploit, mispricing your own fills, is not available either.
Fee revenue is a function of token volume, and volume is not guaranteed. If the token trades thinly the vault grows slowly and fewer traders get funded, that is the honest failure mode, and it is why the queue exists rather than a fixed promise of capital.
Beyond that: the contracts are unaudited at launch, Stock Token liquidity varies by ticker, halts and corporate actions are real, and an approved-asset list is a curated list, which means trusting the curation. Read the contracts before trusting them with size.
Trade the token. Fund the vault. Prove your edge. Get funded. Make money. Fund the next trader.