Carrotfunding.io is the first DeFi-native proprietary trader funding firm. We give traders access to funded capital after they pass a structured evaluation challenge. Unlike traditional prop firms, every payment, payout, and fund movement happens on-chain and is fully verifiable by anyone.
Yes, carrotfunding.io is built for trust. Unlike traditional proprietary trading firms that rely on opaque infrastructure and unverifiable promises, our protocol leverages on-chain infrastructure to ensure full transparency.
With our system, you don’t need to rely on trust, you can verify everything yourself.
No. You never deposit trading capital. You only pay a one-time evaluation fee to access the challenge. There are no hidden fees, no subscriptions, and no recurring charges.
Anyone who is 18 years or older and legally permitted to trade in their jurisdiction. We welcome DeFi-native traders, CEX traders, forex traders, and complete beginners — no prior trading history required.
Visit carrotfunding.io and click 'Get Funded' or 'Enter App'. You can sign up with a Web3 wallet (MetaMask, Rabby), your Google account, or email and password. Once signed up you can immediately configure and purchase a challenge.
We currently offer the Carrot 2-Phase Challenge in two modes: Normal (up to 5x leverage, 8% profit target) and Aggressive (up to 200x leverage, 10% profit target). Account sizes range from 5,000 USDC ($65) to 50,000 USDC ($449), with 100k and 200k coming soon.
You can pay with crypto via DePay (any supported wallet) or by card via Wert (Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay). Both options are available at checkout.
Balance is the total value of your account based on closed trades only, it updates when you open or close a position. Equity is the real-time value of your account including both closed trades and any currently open positions (unrealized PnL). For example, if your balance is 10,000 USDC but you have an open trade currently down 200 USDC, your equity is 9,800 USDC. Your drawdown limits are calculated based on equity, not balance, so open losing trades count toward your limits in real time.
You can hold multiple challenge accounts simultaneously. Each challenge is a separate NFT with its own independent objectives, drawdown limits, and profit targets. There is no hard cap on the number of challenges you can run at once, however each must be purchased and managed independently.
A breach is triggered automatically the moment your equity hits either the Maximum Daily Loss limit or the Maximum Loss limit. When breached, all open positions and active orders are immediately closed and cancelled, and the challenge account is disabled from further trading. If the breach occurs during the Evaluation or Verification phase, that phase is failed and you would need to purchase a new challenge to try again. If it occurs on a funded account, you are not eligible for a payout.
The Trading Competition is a free trading contest open to all carrotfunding.io users. You trade a $10K Normal Mode competition account and compete to finish with the highest closed PnL by the deadline. The top traders win free challenge accounts. Follow our Discord and X for announcements about upcoming competitions and promo codes.
Funded traders earn 80% of net trading profits. The remaining 20% goes to the on-chain vault that supports capital allocation and protocol sustainability.
You can request a payout from your Trader Dashboard once you are on a funded account and have made at least 100 USDC in profit (net of the 80/20 split). All open trades and pending orders must be closed, and you must wait at least 15 minutes after closing your last trade before submitting the request.
The minimum payout is 100 USDC. Since the profit split is 80/20, you need to generate at least 125 USDC in profit to receive a 100 USDC payout.
All payouts are processed within 24 hours via the Arbitrum network. Every payout is executed on-chain and fully verifiable.
No. Trading is automatically disabled while a payout is being processed. Once the payout is completed, trading access is restored and your Maximum Loss and Maximum Daily Loss limits reset to their original values.
No. Once you are funded there are no recurring platform fees or subscription charges of any kind.
Always double-check your wallet address before submitting a payout request. We are not responsible for funds sent to incorrect addresses and are unable to recover them once processed.
Yes. You can request payouts as many times as you like, as long as you meet the conditions each time: all trades must be closed, you must wait at least 15 minutes after closing your last trade, and your profit must be at least 100 USDC (net after the 80/20 split). After each payout is processed, your Maximum Loss and Maximum Daily Loss limits reset to their original values and trading resumes normally.
Tax obligations vary depending on your country of residence and local regulations. carrotfunding.io does not provide tax advice. It is your responsibility to understand and comply with the tax laws applicable in your jurisdiction. We recommend consulting a local tax professional or accountant if you are unsure how your payouts should be reported.
No. Competition accounts are for the contest only and are not eligible for payouts. To earn real payouts you need to purchase and pass a standard challenge account.
The Maximum Daily Loss is set at 5% of your account balance, calculated at 00:00:00 UTC each day. This applies to both realized and unrealized losses combined. If your losses exceed this limit at any point during the day — even temporarily — the account is breached and the challenge is terminated.
The Maximum Loss is 10% from your High-Water Mark balance (the highest balance ever recorded on the account). It trails upward as your balance grows but stops trailing once the limit exceeds your original starting balance. Trading fees are included in this calculation and there are no resets.
The Consistency Score measures how evenly your profits are distributed across trading days. No single day should account for more than 30% of your total profits. The score must be 70 or higher to pass a phase or request a payout. You do not fail the challenge if it drops below 70, you simply continue trading until it recovers.
No. There is no time limit on either phase of the challenge. You can take as many days, weeks, or months as you need to hit the profit target while staying within the risk rules.
Phase 1 (Evaluation): 8% for Normal mode, 10% for Aggressive mode. Phase 2 (Verification): the profit target is the same as Phase 1 - 8% for Normal, 10% for Aggressive. The target must be reached through closed trades only; unrealized profits do not count.
Forbidden practices include: exploiting platform bugs or price feed errors, coordinated or colluding trading across multiple accounts, using HFT systems or mass order automation, extreme overleveraging or gambling-style behavior, copy trading, hedge trading, and trading on behalf of other people or giving third parties access to your account.
Yes. carrotfunding.io does not require you to close trades before the weekend. You may hold positions overnight and over weekends. However, be aware that crypto markets operate 24/7, so your drawdown limits apply at all times including weekends. Forex, Indices&Stocks and commodities markets have specific market hours - refer to the Gains Network documentation for the exact market times per asset class.
Yes, news trading is permitted. However, be aware that gTrade automatically adjusts conditions around major news events - leverage is temporarily reduced and spreads are widened starting 1 hour before and lasting 10 minutes after high-impact events (such as NFP, CPI, or Fed announcements). This applies to both forex and commodities pairs. These adjustments are built into the protocol and are not controlled by carrotfunding.io. For crypto pairs, conditions remain unchanged during news. Always check the high-impact news calendar before trading around macro events and factor in the tighter conditions when sizing your positions. You can read more about how gTrade handles trading conditions in our blog: carrotfunding.io/blog/meet-gains-network-3-3-understanding-trading-conditions
Yes. The same risk limits as standard challenges apply, Maximum Daily Loss and Maximum Loss limits are enforced throughout. Breach your risk limits and you are disqualified from the competition. Note that the Consistency Score does not apply to competition accounts, only your final closed PnL determines your ranking.
Create your unique referral code from the Referrals page in your dashboard. Share it with other traders. Every time someone purchases a challenge using your code, you earn a 10% lifetime revenue share - from both their challenge purchases and their funded trader profit splits.
Traders who sign up using your referral code receive 10% off their first challenge purchase.
All referral rewards are settled on-chain via your Arbitrum wallet within 24 hours of being earned. The minimum referral payout threshold is $100 USDC.
Yes. For creators, educators, and high-volume affiliates, carrotfunding.io offers a Growth Partner Program with enhanced rewards and custom partnership structures. You can apply via the official links in our documentation
Carrot Points are earned by participating in the ecosystem. Affiliates earn 0.5 points per USDC of referral revenue, and Growth Partners earn 1 point per USDC. Points may be used for future airdrop allocations.
Carrotfunding.io uses a proprietary in-house trading terminal integrated with gTrade by Gains Network - a decentralized synthetic leveraged trading protocol on Arbitrum. Pricing is sourced from Chainlink oracles, which prevents price manipulation and scam wicks.
Through carrot Terminal you have access to 250+ crypto pairs (including 50+ meme coins), 35+ forex pairs, and tiered commodities markets. The full pair list is available in the documentation.
carrotfunding.io applies no artificial markup on fees or spreads. All trading conditions directly reflect the live gTrade environment, including opening and closing fees, spread per asset class, and borrowing fees for longer-held trades. Fees are calculated on the total position size (leverage × collateral).
Yes. The carrotfunding.io trading terminal is fully responsive and optimized for both desktop and mobile devices.
Every financial interaction - from evaluation fee payments to trader payouts - happens on-chain and is publicly auditable. You can verify all wallet addresses, smart contracts, vault balances, and fund flows in real time on Arbiscan. There are no hidden rules or opaque processes.
The vault is an on-chain investment vehicle built on rethink.finance. 50% of every evaluation fee is directed into the vault to back funded trader accounts and support payouts. The vault's NAV (Net Asset Value) is calculated and updated on-chain, giving full visibility into the protocol's solvency at any time.
Carrotfunding.io uses a transparent A/B-booking model. Trading positions may be mirrored into live on-chain markets based on risk scoring. All hedging activity and risk management is publicly observable on-chain - not a black box like traditional prop firms.
Every challenge is minted as a unique NFT from the Carrot Funded Bunny Initiative (FBI) collection. Each NFT stores your challenge parameters, trading stage, and profit data on-chain in real time. NFTs can be traded on OpenSea and serve as your on-chain trading identity and reputation.
All smart contract addresses, wallet addresses, and vault details are publicly listed in the Transparency section of the carrotfunding.io documentation and Analytics page. You can verify every transaction on Arbiscan at any time.
A/B booking is a risk management approach used by trading firms. A-booking means your trades are hedged directly into real markets (the firm takes no risk against you). B-booking means the firm holds the risk internally. At carrotfunding.io, both approaches are used based on risk scoring - and unlike traditional prop firms, our entire A/B booking logic is transparent and observable on-chain in real time. You can verify exactly how positions are being managed at any time. This eliminates the conflict of interest that exists at firms that secretly B-book all traders.
Carrotfunding.io uses gTrade (Gains Network) for trade execution, which is a fully decentralized protocol. Pricing comes from Chainlink oracles - not from carrotfunding.io - which means prices cannot be manipulated against you. All trade data is recorded on-chain and verifiable by anyone. There are no dealing desks, no re-quotes, and no artificial price manipulation.
On top of this, carrotfunding.io is integrating ROFL (Runtime Offchain Logic) by Oasis Protocol - a cryptographic verification layer that independently re-executes every evaluation and order decision inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).
This means every PnL calculation, rule enforcement, and payout decision can be cryptographically proven on-chain. If the ROFL result ever differs from the main engine result, ROFL's cryptographically verified output takes precedence. This makes carrotfunding.io the first prop trading platform where fairness is not just claimed - it is provable. Read more: carrotfunding.io/blog/why-we-chose-rofl-eliminating-the-last-trust-assumption-in-prop-trading
